Conservation Planning

The staff at Barber and Mann provide organizational and planning support to private landowners, conservation organizations and natural resource agencies in developing landscape level strategies and projects for wildlife and fisheries habitat restoration, protection, enhancement and acquisition in the Southeast U.S.  

Unique professional services include:

• Conservation planning
• Strategic planning
• Project design and management
• Grant writing, research and management and administration
• Technical and special report writing and communications
• Meeting facilitation and organizational support
• Baseline documentation for historic and conservation easements
• Conservation land acquistion / protection / restoration planning.

For more information, contact Elizabeth Rooks-Barber, CWB, at (601) 957-3443 or Brad Tackett, ASLA.

Conservation Planning

• Mississippi's Assessment of Forest Resources and Forest Resource Strategy, 2010 - MS Forestry Commission
• Mississippi’s Comprehensive Wildlife Conservation Strategy, 2006 – MS Department of Wildlife Fisheries and Parks
• MS Department of Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks Strategic Plan - 2007
• Mississippi’s Forest Legacy Program Assessment of Need 2007 – 2012 – MS Forestry Commission
• MS Museum of Natural Science Operational Plan - 2008

Reports

• Baseline Documentation Reports for Conservation Easements and Historic Preservation Easements on Private Lands in Mississippi and Louisiana
• Mississippi Forestry Commission FY 2007 Annual Report
• Waterbirds on Working Lands in Mississippi - National Audubon Society

Grant writing

• North American Wetlands Conservation Act Standard and Small Grants - Arkansas, Florida, Kansas, Kentucky, Mississippi, Louisiana, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Texas
• Private Stewardship Grant Program Grants
• Coastal Impact Assistance Program Grants
• National Fish and Wildlife Foundation Grants

Program Management

• Mississippi Coastal Impact Assistance Program - MS Department of Environmental Quality (2001-2007)
• Mississippi Coastal Impact Assistance Program MS Department of Marine Resources (2007-2010)
• Mississippi Forest Legacy Program Coordination (2008-2010)

◊ Ducks Unlimited

◊ Land Trust for the Mississippi Coastal Plain

◊ Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality

◊ Mississippi Department of Marine Resources

◊ Mississippi Department of Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks

◊ Mississippi Forestry Commission

◊ National Audubon Society

◊ Private landowners and businesses in Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana and Tennessee

◊ The Nature Conservancy