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Harvard Grant Supports ICS Water Fund Feasibility Study
Harvard University is helping ICS clients explore how social impact capital can be used to optimize limited irrigation water supplies in the American West. A grant from the university’s Loeb Fellowship Alumni Council is supporting an ICS-led collaboration among Colorado...
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ICS-TNC Pursue Green Infrastructure Partnership
An ICS-led team of scientists, policy analysts, and program managers from The Nature Conservancy (TNC) launched a plan to help restore the 927-square-mile Fountain Creek Watershed. Implementation—focused on collaborative stream management planning, forest health initiatives,...
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ICS—Nature Conservancy Issue Urban Watershed Plan
The Nature Conservancy (TNC) contracted ICS to help the organization determine how it could support more integrated, effective approaches to watershed health and management in and around southern Colorado’s growing Front Range metropolitan regions. Natural Solutions for a...
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A Western River with too Much Water? ICS Explores
Can it be, in the midst of drought, with intense competition for limited water supplies, that a major tributary flowing through one of the Intermountain West’s largest, fastest growing cities, has too much water? Descending an incredible 9,475 vertical feet in just 74.5 miles...
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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, The Scales of Western Water, as its keynote speaker. Campbell christened the thematic undertaking by examining landscape-scale approaches local, state, and national conservation...
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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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Sourav Kumar Biswas is a landscape planner at Sasaki and spatial analyst with experience...
Jeff Kahn, a water attorney and Partner at Lyons Gaddis Attorneys and Counselors, has...
Rebecca Jewett is the Executive Director of the Palmer Land Trust, one the United...
Paige Lewis is the Deputy State Director and Director of Conservation Programs for The...
Chris Markuson is the CEO of Anza Group, LLC, a consulting agency that provides services...
Flavio Sciaraffia is professional Architect and the Executive Director of GeoAdaptive’s...
Dr. Juan Carlos Vargas is a Principal partner at GeoAdaptive and a Lecturer and Research...
Kolu Zigby is the Program Director for Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems at the...
Kevin McCarty is a Certified General Appraiser in Colorado and Wyoming and the owner of...
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