Financing Land Preservation in West Virginia's Cacapon and Lost River Watershed

The University of Maryland Environmental Finance Center, on behalf of the Cacapon and Lost Rivers Land Trust (the Trust), convened a financing charrette to assist the Trust in their efforts to develop a long-range financial strategy for protecting a particularly critical section of land in the watershed. The goal of the event was to develop the framework for a financing and implementation plan for preserving more than 14,000 acres linking an existing conservation hub to a national forest and a wildlife management area. This report, developed by the staff at the Environmental Finance Center, outlines the core components of a sustainable, effective financing strategy, and provides detailed next steps and recommendations for implementation.