Land & water, protected forever

This is what conservation makes possible.

Broad Water Innovations protects land and water across Virginia and beyond — and keeps it safe, in perpetuity.

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Our promise

Protected in perpetuity. Not for a decade — forever.

Every easement we hold is permanent — monitored, stewarded, and legally defended.

12,519Acres held
104Conservation easements
22Properties stewarded
$14MEndowment managed
Why it’s urgent

The land is disappearing.

Across the mid-Atlantic, wetlands, streams, and open space vanish a little more every year — to development, to rising water, to time. Most of what is lost never comes back.

Broad Water Innovations exists to make protection permanent — holding the easement, funding the endowment, and stewarding the land so the places that survive, survive for good.

Protect a place forever
Our purpose

We acquire, protect, and steward land and water — then we keep our promise to it forever.

A Living Look
Biodiversity, in real time

Life returns to land we protect.

On-site Sentinel cameras and sensors catalog the wildlife on each property — the quiet proof that conservation works.

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Our lands

Held in trust.

From Virginia wetlands to streams across 11 states — explore the land we steward.

11 states 22 properties stewarded 104 conservation easements Open the full property map

Locations shown are representative regions, not exact property boundaries.

Support the mission

Help grow the next generation

Your gift powers our education program and the scholarship that puts students on a path to careers in conservation.

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We hold and monitor conservation easements in perpetuity — endowed, accredited, and built to last. Let's talk about your bank.

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Education

The BWI Environmental Studies Scholarship

Each year we invest in students pursuing conservation and environmental science — because protecting land also means growing the people who will care for it.

$2,500 annual scholarship Applications due June 1
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Land Trust AllianceMember organization
IRT-Approved StewardVirginia Interagency Review Team
Endowed & PerpetualMonitored every year, forever