Our mission is to foster science education, landscape restoration, habitat conservation, and innovative agriculture to promote sustainable communities and environmental stewardship. The Trust’s environmental programs address a variety of needs – all with the ultimate goal of promoting sustainable communities and environmental stewardship for the good us of all. Through our watershed restoration program – FIELDS, or Farmers Implementing Environmental Landscape Designs and Solutions, the Trust is working in close partnership with farmers to deliver a targeted, comprehensive landscape approach to the improvement of water quality and wildlife habitat. FIELDS employs a “total farm assessment” approach that provides landowners with a “conservation menu” of all applicable conservation best management practices, sustainable agricultural recommendations, and habitat management guidelines that could be implemented on their lands to improve environmental sustainability as well as agricultural productivity. Providing landowners with total farm assessments is crucial to facilitating one-on-one conversations tailored to the individual landowner and the individual circumstances that his land may offer. Every landowner has unique needs, just as every property presents unique restoration and management potential. Equipping each landowner with conservation recommendations and management regimes that could be employed, along with information regarding funding avenues for each option, allows for informed decision making that can benefit the landowner’s bottom line, as well as yield vast returns for the environment. Through FIELDS, we are working to make a measurable, significant impact on our landscapes – one watershed at a time.