The Sand County Foundation is inviting applicants for its Leopold Conservation Award Program to recognize agricultural landowners actively committed to a land ethic.
Donor Name: Sand County Foundation
State: Selected States
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadlines:
- California: 07/18/2023
- Carolinas: 07/01/2023
- Iowa: 07/01/2023
- Maryland: 08/01/2023
- Missouri: 06/30/2023
- New England: 07/18/2023
- New Mexico: 06/26/2023
- Oklahoma: 08/15/2023
- Pennsylvania: 08/01/2023
- Utah: 08/01/2023
- Wisconsin: 08/01/2023
Size of the Grant: $10,000
Details:
Sand County Foundation, national sponsor American Farmland Trust and several prominent state conservation partners present the prestigious honor, which consists of $10,000 and a crystal award, in settings that showcase the landowners’ achievements among their peers.
The Leopold Conservation Award is a productive investment in private lands conservation. It recognizes and celebrates extraordinary achievement in voluntary conservation by private landowners, inspires countless other landowners by example and provides a prominent platform by which agricultural community leaders are recognized as conservation ambassadors to citizens outside of agriculture. Finally, the program builds bridges between agriculture, government, environmental organizations, industry and academia to advance the cause of private lands conservation.
Criteria
Please address the five criteria, and limit each response to 1,000 words.
- Conservation Ethic
- The award seeks landowners who have voluntarily exceeded the minimum obligations of regulation to enhance and conserve natural resources.
- Resilience
- The award seeks landowners who have used business and conservation methods to make their operation productive into the future.
- Leadership and Communication
- The award seeks nominees who have shared their conservation ethic and techniques with others insider and outside of agriculture, through community service, leadership roles and media outreach.
- Innovation and Adaptability
- The award seeks landowners who have taken risks by utilizing or experimenting with new techniques to adapt a change (consumers, markets, weather, regulations, etc.)
- Ecological Community
- The award seeks landowners with farms, ranches and forests that work with natural systems (soil, water, plants and wildlife, etc.) and benefits others.
- The award seeks landowners with farms, ranches and forests that work with natural systems (soil, water, plants and wildlife, etc.) and benefits others.
For more information, visit Sand County Foundation.
