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A comprehensive book on land conservation financing for community and regional conservation leaders. A Field Guide to Conservation Finance provides essential advice on how to tackle the universal obstacle to protecting private land in America: lack of money.

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“A Field Guide to Conservation Finance sets a new standard for land trusts and land conservation. Story Clark has created a remarkable road map for linking passion for place with vital, sophisticated technical and financial skills. She shows us that the business of land conservation can — and must — be learned by anyone who is committed to passing the legacy of special places on to future generations.”
--Jean Hocker, President, Conservation Service Company, LLC and President Emeritus, Land Trust Alliance.

“This book belongs on the director's desk of every environmental group in the country: in it the fear of raising money is replaced by an understanding of what it means to give. Raising money is always about relationships, our relationship toward the land and each other. Who could imagine a book about money to be a book about love?”
--Terry Tempest Williams, Author of The Open Space of Democracy and Refuge

“Story Clark begins her wonderfully helpful book by noting that ‘conservation finance is the best place where people, land, and money meet,’ but it is surely not the only place. Her guide will help make the best place commonplace. If widely used, this field guide will keep all our other field guides relevant.”
--Gus Speth, Dean of the School of Forestry & Environmental Studies, Yale University