A Collective Impact Approach to Conservation

The Texas Hill Country Conservation Network is a diverse coalition of conservation-focused organizations—nonprofit, academic, and government—working together to protect natural resources and solve growth challenges across the Hill Country. Our mission is to maximize protection of the Hill Country’s natural resources through enhanced collaboration.

The Texas Hill Country is at a crossroads. This iconic region, home to the headwaters of 12 of Texas’ rivers, sustains life from the rural backroads of the Texas hinterlands through the rapidly growing cities of the I-35 corridor, to the bays and estuaries of the Gulf of Mexico. Sprawling development, climate change, and booming population growth threaten the complete depletion and degradation of these critical resources.

Network Goals:

• Increase land conservation and promote land stewardship practices
• Ensure adequate spring and river flows
• Protect water quality
• Expand night sky preservation
• Grow awareness and support
• Increase investment in conservation
• Build long-erm, durable partnerships

​Partners Working for the Hill Country

Dozens of non-government organizations, businesses, universities, and governmental organizations have come together to form the Network and collaborate to promote land conservation and stewardship, water quality protection, water conservation, and advancing community engagement in regional conservation. The Hill Country Alliance serves as the backbone organization and is the fiscal sponsor for the Network.