Round+Table+Discussion


 * I.** **Introductory Questions**
 * 1) Does your organization have defined goals for the conservation lands it protects?
 * 2) Does your organization have a vision for the desired state of conservation lands?
 * 3) Does your organization specify targets or goals for conservation? (More specific then water quality, air quality?)
 * 4) Does your organization know it the lands protected are meeting the conservation goals?
 * 5) If so how?


 * II. Threats**
 * 1) Does your organization consider threats or pressures to conservation lands that may affect the desired state?
 * 2) At what scale does your organization examine conservation targets? (On a parcel by parcel basis or on a watershed or larger landscape scale?)
 * 3) Does your organization engage in any activities to alleviate these threats
 * 4) Does your organization monitor threats to conservation lands?
 * 5) What does your organization consider the biggest threats to their conservation properties?


 * III.** **Measuring Conservation Success**
 * 1) Does you organization follow any guidelines or frameworks to measure conservation success?
 * 2) Describe your methodology for evaluating conservation success.

Louise ... These are all "yes/no" questions ... we should change them to spark more conversation. Here's what I'm thinking, to start with ... you can take from there ... ALSO, have you sent Nancy the URL and asked for her comments? george

When your organization is making a decision about protecting a particular parcel of land, what kind of process to you use? What questions do you ask about the parcel?

What are some of the specific goals for which your organization protects land?

How does your organization know if a protected property is meeting the goals for which it was protected?

When it comes time to judge or talk about the success or failure of your efforts - especially whether a particular parcel was a good or bad purchase - how do you make that judgement?