Marty is president of Conservation Partners, Inc., a consulting firm based in Denver specializing in conservation planning and land protection for lands with special open, agricultural, recreational and natural resource values. Conservation Partners works with landowners, communities and counties, nonprofits and major foundations to develop open land plans and implementation strategies to protect special community resources in ways that constructively engage diverse publics. Over the past twenty years, Conservation Partners has consulted with hundreds landowners and communities to develop creative plans and implementation strategies, a number of which have received regional and national awards. In the mid-2000s Conservation Partners led the effort to develop a plan to resolve contentious land use problems around the City of Whitefish Montana that resulted in the creation of the Whitefish Trail, a highly successful regional amenity and community resource. Prior to starting Conservation Partners, Marty worked as a principal at a large landscape planning firm and spent ten years as vice president of two statewide land trusts, Colorado Open Lands and the Vermont Land Trust. He is frequently asked to speak on conservation and land use issues in the West and is a board member on the Colorado 14ers Initiative, the organization that creates and maintains sustainable trails on Colorado’s high peaks.
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