Open Space Resources

Open Space Studies and Initiatives

Title

Author/Organization Name

"An Assessment of Residents' Willingness to Pay for

and Farmland Preservation Conservation

Journal of the U.S. Cooperative Extension
Service

Benefits of Open Space (1997)

Great Swamp Watershed Association

"Building Livable Communities: A Community Design

Connecticut Towns" (Part 1) and

Regional Plan Association for CT, NJ, NY

"Connecticut: Economic Vitality and Land Use", (May 2003)

Connecticut Regional Institute for the 21st
Century

"Connecticut Metropatterns: Regional Agenda for Community

Prosperity in Connecticut"

Office of Urban Affairs of the Archdiocese of
Hartford

"Connecticut's Open Space Initiative"

U.S. Department of Agriculture, National
Resources

onservation Services (NRCS)

Connecticut Open Space and Watershed Land Acquisition
Program

Trust for Public Land

"Connecticut Strategic Economic Framework" (1999)

Connecticut Regional Institute for the 21st
Century

Conservation Subdivisions

UCONN Agricultural Extension System

Defense of Place

Resource Renewal Institute

Economic Impacts of Open Space Protection

Connecticut Audubon Society

Embrace Open Space in the Twin Cities

Embrace Open Space campaign & McKnight
Foundation

"Is Connecticut Sprawling" (2002)

Regional Plan Association for CT, NJ, NY

Land Use Research papers

UCONN Center for Land Use Education and
Research (CLEAR)

Municipal Summaries and Report Cards

Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)

New Hartford Buildable Lands Study

Farmington River Watershed Association
(FRWA)

"Planning for Parks and Open Space"

Center for Land Use Education, University of
Wisconsin

"10 Principles of Smart Growth in Connecticut" (2001)

Connecticut Conference of Municipalities

Report on Property Tax Burdens and Smart Growth
Incentives,

October 2003 - Summary

State of Connecticut Blue Ribbon Commission

"Smart Talk for Growing Communities: Meeting the
Challenges of

Growth and Development"

The Topsfield Foundation, Study Circles
Program

"The State of Connecticut: Strategy for Economic
Development"

Harvard School of Business Online Journal

Workshops and initiatives, land use planning resources

University of Connecticut Nonpoint Education for

Municipal Officials (NEMO)

Open Space Initiatives in Other States

Block Island, Rhode Island Open Space Plan

East Greenwich, RI - 2002 Passage of $34 million Open Space Bond

Highlands Coalition - Critical Treasures of Connecticut

Map of Highlands Region

The Trustees of Reservations (Massachuestts)

New York League of Conservation Voters

New York State Conservation Grant Clearinghouse

New York State Open Space Preservation Plan

N orthern Forest Alliance - Maine, New Hampshire, New York, Vermont

Putnam County, NY Intelligent Growth and Regional Planning

Regional Plan Association (NY/CT/NJ): Open Space Initiatives

Vermont Land Trust

Wake County, North Carolina: Open Space Plan

"I recognize the right and duty of this generation to develop and use the nature resources of our
land; but I do not recognize the right to waste them, or to rob,
by wasteful use, the generations that come after us."
- Theodore Roosevelt
Osawatomie, Kansas, August 31, 1910

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