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Conservation Leaders in Our Communities
Report of the Conservation Task Force / November 2011

A

core mission of public parks and recreATion is to acquire land for parks and to

protect the natural and cultural resources of a community, region, or state. This mission
animates the services public park agencies provide to promote individual, social, and envi-

ronmental health within our communities. This conservation mission of contributing to environmental
quality and quality of life has become increasingly important to public parks, and it has received broad
public support across the country.
Also recognizing that the challenge for park and recreation
agencies to fulfill their conservation mission is broad and encompassing, and that the time and resources of the Conservation Task Force were limited, the task force chose to focus on
what they perceived as the most important conservation priorities for parks and recreation agencies at this time: natural
resources conservation, sustainable landscapes, youth engagement, stewardship, and energy conservation.
Members of the CTF contributed a series of Best Management Practice summaries (BMPs) and Case Studies that they
have employed in their agencies to implement conservation
practices. Several of the BMPs are highlighted in this report.
All of the case studies and best practices are available online in a new Conservation Resource Center at www.nrpa.org/
conservation.
A charge to the CTF was to identify gaps in conservation

virginia state parks

As the largest landowners in most communities, public park
and recreation agencies have a vital responsibility for stewardship of land and resources. Good stewardship requires management practices that protect and enhance the recreational,
environmental, social, and cultural values of public lands and
natural and cultural resources in a manner that is cost-effective
and sustainable for future generations.
The Conservation Task Force (CTF) began its work with the
acknowledgement that the field of public parks and recreation
is changing dramatically and perhaps irrevocably, and focused
on identifying challenges and recommending strategies to suggest a vision for parks and recreation that embraces conservation as a primary purpose of all of parks and recreation. This
vision will enable NPRA to take a leadership role as the national
organization leading parks and recreation in implementation of
conservation practice and principles.

Tree Army volunteers
plant trees at First Landing
State Park, Virginia, on the
Chesapeake Bay.
	

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