from the president
TODAY’S FRONTIERS, TOMORROW’S PARKS
From abandoned railway lines to active freeway overpasses, parks are popping up in spaces that yesterday’s urban planners could never have envisioned going green. Experts in GIS are using innovative computer mapping techniques to help cities prepare for rising seas, rising temperatures, and other imminent effects of global climate change. Social media platforms unknown or obscure a decade ago are now essential tools in advocating for land conservation. And creative combinations of public and private funding are empowering underserved communities to create parks where they are needed most—from Chicago’s Logan Park to San Francisco’s Tenderloin. These are just a few of the latest develop-
ments on the frontiers of our conservation efforts—some of which you will read about in this issue of Land&People. But for The Trust for Public Land, working on the cutting edge is nothing new. More than 40 years ago, our founders pro- claimed a goal “to pioneer and share new tech- niques of land preservation.” Back then, we were just a handful of conservationists with an idea for a new and nimble kind of nonprofit, one that borrowed the best techniques from business, law, and real estate and put them to work protecting land for people—especially in and around cities. We had no idea how far the pursuit of that goal would take us. We couldn’t have an- ticipated that parks would become a critical weapon in battling the 21st-century scourge of obesity, or that we would have—or even need—an entire program dedicated to helping cities cope with the climate crisis.
But while the frontiers are always shifting, our mission has remained the same: to enrich human lives and build stronger, healthier, and more livable communities by connecting people to nature. The Trust for Public Land believes that everyone deserves to live within a ten-minute walk of a park, playground, or protected natural area—and we are always ready to push our own limits to make that vision a reality. We hope you enjoy this issue of Land&People
and thank you for joining in our land-for- people mission. With your support, we can continue to bring a spirit of innovation to the challenge of creating and protecting places people care about—no matter what the future holds. Onward to the next frontier!
Will Rogers president
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sara cozolino
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