The Open Space Institute is pleased to announce the launch of the Appalachian Landscapes Protection Fund and the inaugural Request for Proposals for the Fund. Eligible organizations are welcome to submit proposals for capital grants through April 14, 2021.
The Fund, created with a seed grant from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, will support the purchase of land and conservation easements in key focus areas of the Appalachian Mountain region that facilitate wildlife adaption to climate change and forest carbon uptake. The Appalachian Landscapes Protection Fund seeks to protect 50,000 acres in the focus areas, which contain some of the nation’s most at-risk, biologically rich, and climate-resilient landscapes that also store and sequester massive amounts of carbon.