Main contentIn collaboration with the entire Mount Grace community, we work toward a healthy future that will provide:
- Contiguous, connected, resilient natural areas – to give us clean water and air, provide sustainable forest products, buffer the impacts of climate change, and protect the habitat wildlife needs to survive.
- Thriving local food systems – from sustainable farmers to local sellers to informed buyers – to ensure people have access to healthy, nourishing food.
- Healthier, happier, longer lives for all thanks to equitable access to the natural world that sustains us.
To support that future, Mount Grace must continue to take a lead role among land trusts in developing new programs and collaborations in order to evolve as the partner our community needs. To implement this vision, Mount Grace commits to:
- Address the threat of climate change to our environment and our communities by prioritizing new projects with high potential to mitigate climate change and by improving climate resilience on the lands we steward.
- Strengthen relationships with farmers and foresters to better understand the challenges they face and to design projects that sustain a future in which local forestry and farming contribute to the rural economy and improve local food security.
- Work with Indigenous partners to broaden the traditional definitions of what conservation is and who it serves, to ensure the fullest possible expression of community and land access.
- Build relationships with community members to understand how conservation can better incorporate the knowledge and meet the needs of the increasingly diverse communities in the region.
- Take on bold and ambitious conservation projects to protect what we love about this place – the wildlife, the forest, the farms, the clean air and water, and the connections we have with the land.
