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“We need to think about how we connect the people to the land.”


“It is the rare chance to plug a spectacular park into a densely built streetscape that really needs it. Where there’s a way, there should be a will.”


The New York Times gets on board with the QueensWay in a December editorial. The proposed rail-to-trail project would provide green gathering spaces and a safer route for people-powered transit.


JASON CORZINE THE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND’S SOUTHWEST DIRECTOR SEES THE


FUTURE OF CONSERVATION IN QUALITY, NOT QUANTITY


What first drew you to conservation work? How did you get started at The Trust for Public Land? The love of all things outdoors was planted in me as a kid. I grew up in the South and spent a tremendous amount of time outdoors. As I made my way through college, I had this notion that I wanted to do something in the natural resources field. While I was in graduate school in Texas, I got my first job working for a water supply district. I started out in a cubicle working on wastewater treatment plants. One day, a Trust for Public Land project manager came to visit and told me, “You know, you could actually protect drinking water by protecting land.” That project, which began in the 1990s, was called Government


SEE PARK DESIGNS


Canyon. Not only did it safeguard a major drinking water supply for more than a million people in San Antonio and Austin, it also provided the community with access to thousands of acres of open space. That really opened my eyes as to how you could make a career out of con-


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