Natural Resources: Landscape Conservation & Land Trust Capacity-Building - Gates Family Foundation
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NATURAL RESOURCES: LANDSCAPE CONSERVATION & LAND TRUST CAPACITY BUILDING

In Colorado, approximately 100,000 acres of farm, ranch, or forest lands — an area roughly equivalent to the City and County of Denver — are lost every year to development. These landscapes are critical for the state’s biodiversity, scenic values, recreation, water protection, agricultural production, rural economies, and cultural resources.

Gates Family Foundation has been funding land conservation since 1978, and we’ve been the state’s largest source of matching funds for public-private land protection since the launch of Great Outdoors Colorado in 1992. We prioritize projects with demonstrated impact, strong funding leverage, scale, connectivity, and a high degree of collaboration, landowner commitment, and community support.

Our Focus Landscapes program invests in long-term, landscape-scale commitments to two regions of statewide significance: Southeast Colorado and the San Luis Valley. In addition, we support land conservation projects statewide through our capital grants program.

Nonprofit land trusts are responsible for the stewardship of nearly 80% of the 2.2 million acres of private land conserved in Colorado. Because of this, since 2011 we have invested in land trust capacity building, including leadership development and support for new operating models and partnership agreements. We continue to invest in Keep It Colorado — the statewide coalition launched in 2018 with the vision, capacity, and structure to effectively guide and support the land conservation community as it evolves to meet current and future challenges.

Our 2022-2026 Strategic Plan: Our Team Shares the Highlights

During a series of six webinars, our team shared the broad strokes of our 2022-2026 strategic plan: what’s new and what’s unchanged, and how — by working together — we can make a positive impact on the most important issues facing our state.

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Whitney Johnson

Whitney Johnson

Senior Program Officer – Natural Resources
Amanda Hill

Amanda Hill

Program Officer – Natural Resources