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Inside And Outside The Lines: The Socio-Ecological Differences Of Landscape Conservation Partnerships And Their Surrounding Regions, Somaye Garmroudi Dovirani

Landscape Architecture & Regional Planning Masters Projects

This study examines the socio-ecological criteria forming physical boundaries of regional conservation partnerships and the differences between outside and inside the boundaries. The purpose of this study is to first of all know more about the existing condition of regional partnerships' boundaries, and to seek a method to maximize the efficiency of regional partnership goals to conserve more land. Using a patch-and-corridor matrix ecological model to proves to allow for stronger conservation plans than the existing more opportunity-driven approach currently taken by RCPs.

Partnership Refuges: The Future Of The National Wildlife Refuge System? A Case Study Of Mashpee National Wildlife Refuge, Massachusetts, Margaret Catherine Engesser

Landscape Architecture & Regional Planning Masters Projects

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service works with partners to carryout management activities and events on national wildlife refuges. Partnerships provide financial and conservation management assistance for refuges and allow the Service to expand its breadth of influence to different agencies and organizations nationwide. As partnerships become a more valuable tool utilized by refuges, the Service should consider establishing partnership-based refuges, in which the refuge is owned by multiple organizations and not solely by the Service. This Master of Regional Planning Project evaluates one of the first partnership refuges, Mashpee National Wildlife Refuge, located on Cape Cod, Massachusetts. Through the …

A Mill Town's Downtown: Assessing The Needs Of Ware's Main Street, Christina E. Mills

Landscape Architecture & Regional Planning Masters Projects

At the heart of every city and town is a downtown and a Main Street that not only serves as an economic engine, but defines the community, reflects its values, and acts as a living barometer of the state of the town. Downtown Economic Development is an essential component of any community's plan for prosperity and growth.

A once thriving mill town with a robust manufacturing industry, Ware Massachusetts is a bedroom community that today is made up of many industries, none of which present an obvious symbol or unifying identity for Ware the way manufacturing once did. That reality …