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100,000


… visitors per year to Glen Helen Nature Preserve, a half hour from Dayton, Ohio. Home to one of the Midwest’s first environmental education centers, this forest retreat was permanently protected this year with help from The Trust for Public Land.


SEE PHOTOS 22 · LAND&PEOPLE · FALL/WINTER 2016


DEE FRANKFOURTH THE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND’S WESTERN DIRECTOR OF CONSERVATION FINANCE GETS THE LAND WE LOVE ON THE BALLOT


What is conservation finance? We work with town, city, county, and state officials to help them create funding for land and water conservation. Sometimes that means working on legislation, but our stock-in-trade is placing funding measures on the ballot and getting them approved by the voters. It’s a little counterintuitive that a nonprofit like the Trust for Public Land can do this kind of advocacy work, but we’ve been at it for 20 years, and we win more than 80 percent of the time.


How did you get into this line of work? I started my career as a biologist, but in the mid-1970s I got involved in an effort to protect new parks, wildlife refuges, and wilderness areas in Alaska. I helped organize dozens of community meetings in the state; then I moved to Washington, D.C., and spent three years lobbying Congress. Finally, on December 2, 1980, President Carter signed the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act—protecting 100 million acres at the stroke of a pen.


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