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January 2020 We Need Your Help

January 2020 We Need Your Help

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We Need Your Help.
The Land Conservation Assistance Network (LandCAN) is applying for a $1+ million grant with the USDA Natural Resource Conservation Service (NRCS). One of the requirements is that we must provide a 50% match in cash and/or in-kind donations (items or service). The grant deadline is February 7, 2020.

Our grant application will focus on building online portfolios on the Habitat Conservation Assistance Network (HabitatCAN) website to provide resources for both the lesser prairie chicken and monarch butterflies, which are entirely dependent on private landowners to achieve species recovery. We are also applying to build a Georgia LandCAN and a Kansas LandCAN.

Vulnerable wildlife like the lesser prairie chicken and monarch butterfly rely on private lands—often utilized for agricultural production—for vital habitat. As conservationists, our solution is to create a system that allows farmers, ranchers, and foresters to protect wildlife habitat without harming their means to earn a living.

LandCAN has proven its capability to implement this proposal through successfully completing similar efforts with the greater sage grouse on HabitatCAN and building nine State LandCAN websites (Arkansas, California, Colorado, Idaho, Louisiana, Maine, Mississippi, Texas, and Virginia). The Land Conservation Assistance Network website receives an average of 30,000 unique users per month, and the state sites average 500-4,000 unique users per month. These numbers serve as testimony to the value we provide with our online land conservation resources.
 
The Lesser Prairie Chicken was listed as a threatened species under the Endangered Species Act in 2014. With that listing decision, the US Fish and Wildlife Service also passed a special rule which provides exemptions for landowners engaged in conservation practices that will help its recovery. (Click image to enlarge
As you can see from the monarch migration map, all of the United States benefits from seeing this beautiful insect. LandCAN is the only national website that can provide private landowners with resources from federal, state, county, forprofit, and nonprofit organizations. (Click the image to enlarge.)
 
Please consider making a donation to LandCAN.

Your gift--no matter the size--will help us reach a 50% match so that we can receive the NRCS grant. With your donation, we can help private landowners with the resources they need to protect the lesser prairie chicken and the monarch butterfly. Farmers, foresters, and ranchers in Georgia and Kansas would greatly appreciate and benefit from the invaluable resources we can provide them to make good, sustainable decisions about their land.
 
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Land Conservation Assistance Network
74Lunt Road Suite300
Falmouth, Maine 04105
207-536-0831