Welcome to Conway Conservation!
Linda Conway Duever, President/Principal Ecologist
10952 County Road 320
Micanopy, Florida 32667 USA
Telephone & fax: 352/466-4136
E-mail: conwayconsrv@conway.com
NOTE: Information from this website may be copied for appropriate use elsewhere if and only if Conway Conservation is credited.
Conway Conservation, Inc. is an environmental consulting firm focused on ecological resource protection and green infrastructure planning. Whereas most environmental consulting firms emphasize routine permitting, Conway Conservation draws on strong understanding of conservation issues and exceptional credibility with the environmental community to help corporations, resource management agencies, and environmental and development organizations develop land management strategies that reflect the best in conservation ecology and "green business". Many of our clients are larger environmental and architecture/engineering firms who draw on our specialized expertise and extensive environmental contact network to supplement the capabilities of their ecology personnel for tasks involving natural areas, sensitive habitats, or rare species.
Conway Conservation's Core Services fall into six basic categories:
Conservation
Planning
Habitat
Evaluation
Green
Infrastructure Development
Environmental
Communications
Facility
Planning
Natural
Area Management
Conway Conservation is a small, flexible, and highly cost-efficient business certified in Florida as a Minority Business Enterprise. Operating out of a spacious well-equipped home office, using advanced technology, a unique state-of-the-art database system, and a strong network of related small businesses, Conway Conservation's Green Infrastructure Teams can offer outstanding environmental services at competitive cost.
Conway Conservation has developed particular interest and expertise in the following specialty areas:
| pinelands
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landscape
history
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Conway Conservation is actively involved with numerous other organizations including:
The Coastal Plains
Institute is a non-profit organization devoted to the
preservation of the biotic diversity of the Coastal Plain of the
southeastern United States. CPI was founded and is directed by
noted herpetologist /ecologist D. Bruce Means, who is also an
Adjunct Professor in the Department of Biological Science at
Florida State University. This organization manages grant funding
for Linda Conway Duever's work related to the Natural Florida
book and ecosystem poster series.
Conway Data, Inc. is an
economic development information company offering a wide variety
of services internationally. The company's publications include Site Selection magazine,
the global magazine of corporate real estate strategy. Conway
Data was founded by Linda Conway Duever's father, H. McKinley Conway.
Conway Conservation, Inc. and Conway Data, Inc. are independently
operated businesses.
The International Development Research
Council is the premier association of corporate real estate
executives and economic development professionals. IDRC was
founded by Linda Conway Duever's father, H. McKinley Conway.
Conway Conservation provides environmental consulting services to
the IDRC staff.
Mockernut Hill
Botanical Garden is a nature preserve, garden, and research
facility in north-central Florida owned by Conway Data and the
Conway family and managed by Conway Conservation for the
Mockernut Foundation.
The Natural Areas
Association is a nonprofit organization dedicated to
promoting communication among professionals involved in
identifying, protecting, managing, and studying natural areas.
Linda Conway Duever served as founding chair of NAA's
International Committee.
The
Conservation Trust for Florida is a nonprofit organization
created to protect the rural landscapes of Florida through direct
action -- including conservation easements and land purchase --
and by assisting rural landowners in retaining traditional and
productive land-use activities. CTF focuses on working landscapes
-- farms, ranches, and woodlots -- as well as natural areas, and
is especially concerned with landscape connections. This new
organization has taken on the former role of the Northwest Marion
Land Trust in promoting development of the Northwest Marion
Greenway. Linda Conway Duever is one of the founders of CTF.
Tropical
Nature Services is an unincorporated sole proprietorship company
Linda Conway Duever maintains to handle sales of the watercolor ecosystem posters produced for her
forthcoming book Natural Florida: A Guide to Ecosystems.
The Wildlands Project is a program
to restore the native biodiversity of North America by applying
principles of conservation biology to establish a connected
system of ecological reserves. Linda Conway Duever served as
Coordinator for the Southeast
Wildlands Project and Conway Conservation contracted with TWP
to conduct SEWP's ecological reserve system planning charettes in
North Carolina and Georgia in the late 1990s.
The World Development Federation
is a non-profit organization for individuals interested or participating in
billion-dollar facility or infrastructure projects around the world. The WDF was founded by H. McKinley Conway,
Linda Conway Duever's father. Many WDF activities are managed by
her sister, Laura Lyne.
Conway Conservation provides environmental information to the
staff.