Conservation Easements:

SRI uses Conservation Easements as a tool to achieve its mission.

SRI’s conservation easement template focuses on the following tenets:

1. Deed restrictions focus on land-use rather than management.

2. Restrictions focus on high conservation-value social problems, and disregard the truival detail that cause exorbitant cost and diminishes the potential of husbandry.

3. All deed restrictions are easily monitored, focusing on thoroughly ensuring bureaucratic distraction from husbandry and overhead cost are squeezed and wrung .

4. Deed restrictions focus on appraisable conservation values: or:

   • include non‐appraisable conservation values only if when their restricted use will have a marked impact in helping to build strategic solutions addressing high‐value social problems, which inherently will enhance rather than disrupt economic-ecologic balance; or,

   • include non‐appraisable conservation values only if they provide a workable landscape ecology / agricultural balance necessary to raise all ships.

Priority Selection:

The SRI is steward to a comprehensive, standardized conservation easement funding prioritization procedure that eliminates the political and optimizes the cooperative capital. It utilizes simple metric precedents for choosing which land conservation project goes first, second, etc.

The mission of the standard is to ensure land is conserved in a manner that works for generations, and create an arena of cooperation within the Initiative’s region and partners beyond.

Brand

The SRI is also steward to the Six Rivers brand, a proprietary trademark indicating products originating on and conservation values inherent with certified SRI member lands.

The Six Rivers brand recognizes the importance of vertical integration in our member’s agricultural businesses, and exists to support their own individual mission in product marketing. The Six Rivers Brand certification exists to bolster and augment the individual, innovative and diverse proprietary product brands of our accredited members.

Integral to the brand are the SRI certifications:

a.      Service:  multi-layered regional certifications for service based on specific professional quantifiable experience eligibility qualified by recommendations. This exclusive layered metric-specific credential celebrates competence; to the exclusion of bureaucracy, pretense and entitlement.

b.      Production: multi-layered professional working agriculture land stewardship certifications that  that includes simple and clear metrics for competence in planning and implementation of improvements in-to pasture and range, forests, wetlands, streams and riparian areas, roads, and terrestrial wildlife habitat.

c.      Management: professional land business manager certification based on the planning and succession metrics associated with successful multi-generational family owner operator or long-term and successional manager experience.

d.      Surety:  regional product marketing certification with that includes multiple components of  professionally managed land, agriculture land stewardship, utilization of  regional certified  professionals, and conservation metrics.