Helping Landowners Conserve the Special Places They Love - Resources First Foundation

What We Do

"The conservation of natural resources is the fundamental problem. Unless we solve that problem it will avail us little to solve all others."
Theodore Roosevelt, 1907

Delivering tools to scale

Resources First Foundation develops portfolios of national, state, regional, and programmatic problem-solving web tools to address the needs of rural America in a free market format. In the past years, RFF has built ten websites to support the conservation needs of the private landowner.
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In 2006 RFF senior project director, Willard Dyche received an award from the Secretary of Agriculture for developing energy estimator tools for farmers and other landowners. RFF has built seven conservation and energy management tools to assist the private landowner in addressing farm and land conservation and climate change issues.

RFF’s websites are designed for the entire conservation community including: private owner, professional staff (foresters, biologists, lawyers, appraisers, etc. and conservation service providers including the private businesses serving the rural land, forests and agricultural sectors. With all RFF’s projects, the goal is to connect people to conservation by leveling the playing field and providing free access to critical conservation information, tools and services.

The Private Landowner Network, RFF’s flagship site, has a series of directories, news services and tools developed specifically for use by the private landowner. Its accompanying suite of sites including the Conservation Tax Center, the Conservation Yellow Pages, and the Conservation Grant and Assistance Programs are searchable by state, zip code, and resource type. They provide access to over 25,000 technical experts, nonprofit organizations, government agencies, legal experts, service providers and conservation funding sources nationwide.

RFF provides grants to support private sector solutions for conservation internationally. RFF has also initiated partnerships with Wilderness Safaris Wildlife Trust (Botswana), the North Atlantic Salmon Fund, Tom and Gladys Johnston Moonhole Conservation Trust, and Moonhole Friends Foundation.
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