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ICS Enterprise Launch: Frost Ranch Sportsmen Club
ICS helped Frost Livestock Company launch a private sportsmen club for fowl, small game, and big game hunters on its 24,000-acre, Frost Ranch property. Frost Ranch Sportsmen Club, LLC, a subsidiary enterprise of the livestock company, is an important component of two...
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ICS Navigates the Wake of Municipal Water Sales
Irrigated agriculture is an economic pillar in Pueblo County, Colorado. Pueblo Chiles at Whole Foods Market: they’re grown here—along with other specialty and forage crops. Until recently, Pueblo County was relatively unaffected by municipal “buy-and-dry” practices...
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ICS Helps Launch New Babbitt Center
The intimate connection between land and water is often discussed in academic circles but not well integrated into land use and water management policy and practice at the local level. The Lincoln Institute of Land Policy (LILP) and the Sonoran Institute (SI) asked ICS to help...
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ICS Guides Gates Family Foundation Strategic Plan
The Gates Family Foundation has committed more than $350 million to Colorado philanthropic endeavors since its creation. In 2011, under the leadership of Tom Gougeon, the Foundation initiated a fundamental shift in its grant-making approach, devoting 60% of its resources to...
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ICS Colleagues Win ASLA Planning and Analysis Award
ICS/Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD) affiliates Sourav Kumir Biswas and Flavio Sciaraffia won a Planning and Analysis Award from the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) for their project: Productive Conservation. Biswas and Sciaraffia analyzed landscape-scale...
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Super Ditch: ICS Examines a Buy-and-Dry Alternative
ICS Principal Scott Campbell penned, “Super Ditch,” the fall cover story in Lincoln Institute of Land Policy’s quarterly publication, Land Lines. In it, he explores the launch of the Super Ditch, a corporation designed to become a lease agent for farmers looking to protect...
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State of the Rockies Kicks off with ICS Keynote
ICS Principal Scott Campbell kicked off the 2015-2016 Colorado College State of the Rockies Project as its keynote speaker. Campbell christened the two-year thematic undertaking, The Scales of Western Water, by examining landscape-scale approaches local, state, and national...
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Rockefeller Tags ICS for Resiliency Planning Expertise
Homes in the wildland-urban interface facing catastrophic fire. Commercial districts in flood zones. Coastal cities confronted by rising sea levels and increasingly devastating storm surge effects. Between 2011 and 2013, there were 67 presidentially declared disaster areas in...
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ICS-Harvard Engage the West’s Farmers & Ranchers
In a semester-long course of study at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design, ICS Principal Scott Campbell led planning and design students in a for-credit, hands-on exploration of private-sector land and water conservation efforts. Students explored the inherent potential land...
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for landowners, NGOs, governments, and partnerships
Our Mission
Innovative Conservation Solutions (ICS) empowers people to protect the land and water resources upon which our lives and livelihoods depend.
Who We Are
We are a small company assembling diverse teams to achieve critical conservation goals. In partnership with scientists, attorneys, agricultural producers, economists, urban planners, and other experts, ICS tackles distressing social, environmental, and economic problems–employing innovative conservation solutions to solve them.
What We Do
ICS provides strategic consultation, planning, and project management services to landowners, NGOs, governments, and cross-sector collaborations. We help protect land and water resources; build resilient communities; advance environmental stewardship; and create strong, sustainable economic futures.
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Jeff Kahn, a water attorney and Partner at Lyons Gaddis Attorneys and Counselors, has...
Jamie Blosser is the Executive Director of Santa Fe Art Institute, and a licensed...
Flavio Sciaraffia is professional Architect with a Master in Urban Design and a...
Sourav Kumar Biswas is a landscape planner and spatial analyst with experience in...
Kolu Zigby is the Program Director for Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems at the...
Dr. Juan Carlos Vargas is a Principal partner at GeoAdaptive and a Lecturer and Research...
Peter Nichols is a Partner at Berg Hill Greenleaf & Ruscitti LLP. He practices water...
Kevin McCarty is a Certified General Appraiser in Colorado and Wyoming and the owner of...
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