Sand County Foundation
For A Study Of Conservation Opportunities With The U.S. Military
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Amount$12,000
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Program
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Date Awarded2/25/2020
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Term12 Months
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Type of SupportProject
Strategies
Overview
The Environmental Policy Innovation Center is a Sand County Foundation-sponsored project to develop creative policies that improve water quality; speed endangered wildlife recovery; expand conservation practices on public and private lands; and provide solutions that allow water, energy, and other essential infrastructure to move forward while benefiting natural resources. This grant supports the Innovation Center’s work to research and identify potential conservation policy opportunities with the U.S. military, which is one of the nation’s largest federal land managers and share that research broadly.
About the Grantee
Grantee Website
www.sandcountyfoundation.org
Address
PO Box 1378, Madison, WI, 53701, United States
Grants to this Grantee
for the Environmental Policy Innovation Center
The Environmental Policy Innovation Center develops creative policies that improve water quality; speed endangered wildlife recovery; expand conservation practices on public and private lands; and provide solutions that allow water, energy, and other essential infrastructure to move forward, while benefiting natural resources. The center is fiscally sponsored by the Sand County Foundation. (Substrategy: Advance Conservation Protections)
for federal capacity for wildlife connectivity transportation projects
The Sand County Foundation’s Environmental Policy Innovation Center develops creative policies that improve water quality; speed endangered wildlife recovery; expand conservation practices on public and private lands; and provide solutions that allow water, energy, and other essential infrastructure to move forward, while benefiting natural resources. This grant will fund a position in the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT). Directed solely by the agency, the position will support DOT communications, outreach, and actions on wildlife connectivity transportation projects, among other activities. (Substrategy: Advance Conservation Solutions)
for an Environmental Policy Innovation Center project to accelerate culvert removals
The Environmental Policy Innovation Center develops creative policies that improve water quality; speed endangered wildlife recovery; expand conservation practices on public and private lands; and provide solutions that allow water, energy, and other essential infrastructure to move forward, while benefiting natural resources. This grant supports the center’s work to research and inform the efficient and ecologically significant spending of historic public funding for culvert removal, authorized by the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law. The center is fiscally sponsored by the Sand County Foundation. (Substrategy: Advance Conservation Protections)
