CONSERVATION PARTNERS LLC

Mr. Maurer has focused on land conservation as a professional planner since 1981.  He has worked in county government and for non-profit organizations, including: planner for the Jefferson County, Colorado Open Space Department; senior planner directing the Environmental Planning Division of Charles County, Maryland; senior planner for the Chesapeake Bay Foundation, and director of planning for the Eastern Shore Land Conservancy.  He has extensive experience in: project development and management; consultant management; environmental inventories, assessments, and impact analyses; policy analysis; master plan development; and grants solicitation and management.  Mr. Maurer possesses a Master of Science from Penn State University with an emphasis in open space planning and a Bachelor of Arts from Kutztown State University with a major in biology.  He is a technical service provider as certified by the USDA - Natural Resources Conservation Service.

PARTNERS

Sweetbay Watershed Conservation

George, Miles and Buhr, LLC

Services

If you are a landowner who wants to protect your land from development or improve it to attract wildlife, a land trust who wants to monitor conservation easements, or a land buyer in search of a retirement property of high environmental quality, Conservation Partners can help you achieve these and other goals. See our list of services below.

Services for Private Landowners Land Preservation and Planning

	Guidance on the sale of development rights and other conservation easements for the purposes of generating income, protecting land from development, setting aside future home sites for family members, and minimizing estate taxes
	Preparation of applications to land preservation programs for the purchase of development rights and other conservation easements, and representing the landowner’s interests with program officials throughout the application process
	Property environmental inventories, computer mapping, and analyses
	Property conservation and management master plans

Environmental Improvement and Management 

	Streambank and shoreline protection and stabilization emphasizing natural approaches
	Forest plantings, improvement, and management
	Riparian forest buffers and other vegetative buffers and barriers
	Wetlands creation, enhancement, and restoration
	Wildlife habitat creation, enhancement, restoration, and management

 Project Management  

	Grant proposal writing and coordination
	Overall project management and coordination
	Obtaining the necessary federal, state, and local permits and approvals

Services for Land Trusts and Conservation Organizations 

Planning and Policy  

	Strategic plans for land conservation acquisitions
	Policy analysis of proposed land use plans, ordinances, programs, and development projects
	Property environmental inventories, computer mapping, and analyses
	Property use and management master plans
	GIS services

 

	Streambank and shoreline protection and stabilization emphasizing natural approaches
	Forest plantings, improvement, and management
	Vegetative buffers and barriers
	Wetlands creation, enhancement, and restoration
	Wildlife habitat creation, enhancement, restoration, and management

Project Management

 

	Grant proposal writing and coordination
	Obtaining the necessary federal, state, and local permits and approvals
	Overall project management and coordination

 

 

	Easement compliance monitoring
	Baseline condition inventories
	Trail layout, development, and maintenance
	Public access management

 Services for Conservation Land Buyers

	Identification of properties satisfying the buyer’s interests and requirements
	Providing overviews for properties of interest, which describe: property physical and natural characteristics, ownership information and status, local land use plan and zoning designations and constraints for the property and surrounding property
	Guidance on the sale of development rights and other conservation easements for the purposes of generating income, protecting land from development, and setting aside future home sites for family members
	Preparation of applications to land preservation programs for the purchase of development rights and other conservation easements, and representing the landowner’s interests with program officials throughout the application process

Stewardship  

Environmental Improvement and Management  

George J. Maurer Conservation Partners, LLC Owner 1130 Crestview Drive Annapolis, MD  21409 Phone: 443-758-5023  Visit Website