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The purpose of an open space reserve may include the preservation or conservation of a community or region's rural natural or historic character; the conservation or preservation of a land or water area for the sake of recreational, ecological, environmental, aesthetic, or agricultural interests; or the management of a community or region's ...
The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (informally referred to as NYSDEC, DEC, EnCon or NYSENCON) is a department of New York state government. [4] The department guides and regulates the conservation, improvement, and protection of New York's natural resources; manages Forest Preserve lands in the Adirondack and Catskill parks, state forest lands, and wildlife management ...
Prospect Point at the Niagara Reservation, c. 1900.The reservation, known today as Niagara Falls State Park, was the first park opened by New York State.. State-level procurement and management of parks in New York began in 1883, when then-governor Grover Cleveland signed legislation authorizing the appropriation of lands near Niagara Falls for a "state reservation".
The Open Space Institute (OSI) is a conservation organization that protects land for clean drinking water, public recreation, healthy communities, wildlife habitat, and climate protection. [1] Established in 1974, OSI achieves its goals through land acquisition, [ 2 ] fiscal sponsorship, [ 1 ] regional loan and grant programs, [ 3 ] park and ...
Parismina, main street, Costa Rica. Conservation development, also known as conservation design, is a controlled-growth land use development that adopts the principle for allowing limited sustainable development while protecting the area's natural environmental features in perpetuity, including preserving open space landscape and vista, protecting farmland or natural habitats for wildlife, and ...
Hunts Point Landing was awarded the 2016 Merit Award by New York City chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architects. The society noted that the park provides "vital public open space and access to the South Bronx shoreline" as well as creating inter-tidal marshes and a pool to control stormwater runoff, and connection to the greenway ...
The Department of Housing Preservation and Development (HPD) is the department of the government of New York City [1] responsible for developing and maintaining the city's stock of affordable housing. Its regulations are compiled in title 28 of the New York City Rules. The Department is headed by a Commissioner, who is appointed by and reports ...
National Wildlife Federation - conservation education and advocacy for Northern American Wildlife; Nature Conservancy of Canada - help protect Canada's most important lands, waters and wildlife; Open Space Institute - conservation organisation and think tank in the Eastern United States; Pheasants Forever - conserving wildlife habitat suitable ...