Land Stewardship

Land management is an essential and necessary component of responsible land stewardship. This is particularly true as we enter the 21st century. Unprecedented increases in human populations, development, pollution, and other factors seriously modify and adversely affect natural systems. Management is defined here as the sum total of all ecologically based actions, inactions, or manipulations that selectively maintain, increase, or decrease the abundance of specific habitat types, ecological conditions, communities, populations, species, or individual organisms.

Cincinnati Nature Center’s goal for land management is to provide and maintain in perpetuity a mosaic of bio-diverse habitats for education, research, and visitor experience.

CNC’s Land Management Objectives

• Protect and conserve native bio-diversity by restoring, enhancing, and maintaining native habitat.
• Protect and conserve physical, cultural, and scenic resources.
• Provide opportunities, trails and facilities for appropriate recreation, research, and education.
• Minimize conflicts between land uses by establishing land use zones.
• Promote visitor safety on the land.
• Promote understanding of CNC’s land management decisions.

Guiding Principles

• A sound land ethic.
• The maintenance of diverse ecological habitats.
• Acknowledgment of CNC’s cultural history and legacies.
• CNC’s mission to teach in, and investigate, the outdoors.
• The need to control populations of native and non-native invasive species.
• The need to maintain balanced populations of native species.
• The need to minimize the adverse impact of people who visit and use our properties.

Do you want to get involved? View the Land Stewardship Volunteer Brochure (PDF), then visit the volunteer page to learn more.

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	Forest Management		Scientific Research
	Freshwater Management