Draft report for potential strategies to serve the conservation community

Community-based citizens’ groups have a vested interest in these open space lands, which embody the quality of life they treasure in San Diego County.  Over the past decade or more, these groups have been working somewhat independently in various areas of the county to protect cultural and biological resources and quality of life on a local and regional basis. There will be an even greater need for citizens’ contributions in the future with the increased land conservation.

Conservation Biology Insitute has drafted a report that presents a potential strategy for initiating a conservation resource collaborative or center (CRC) to serve the conservation community. The strategy focuses on initially building the capacity to provide a subset of the needs desired by the local conservation groups—namely, Geographic Information System (GIS) services, volunteer coordination, and a conservation clearinghouse—with the assumption that these services currently are not readily available to most San Diego County nongovernmental conservation organizations. Under the proposed strategy, the CRC would be initiated by building capacity within an existing host organization and grow incrementally, at a pace and direction supported by the governing organizations, to coordinate support services for the greater conservation community.

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