Outdoor Recreation
Places to paddle, walk, fish, and explore — kept open for the people who love them.
Broad Water Innovations holds and stewards conserved land so it stays wild — not for a season, but forever.
Broad Water Innovations is a Virginia land trust formed in 2013. Having passed the requisite five-year mark, we are a qualified 501(c)(3) land trust serving as a conservation easement holder and Long-Term Steward of wetland, stream, and species mitigation banks.
We exist to acquire, hold, maintain, conserve, and protect land — and land interests — in perpetuity, preserving outdoor recreation, natural open space, and biodiversity for the public good. Alongside that work, we promote public awareness and education about the value of conservation and the policies that sustain it.
Our mission is rooted in environmental health, the perpetual conservation of land and water, and the public benefit that comes through recreation, education, and conservation.
A promise to protect land is only as good as the people still keeping it in a hundred years. That is the whole point of a land trust — and the reason we built ours to last forever.
Each role reinforces the others — together they keep a place protected long after the ink dries.
We hold conservation easements on important lands — the legal backbone that keeps a place protected no matter who owns it next.
We take on the lifelong responsibility of monitoring and caring for wetland and stream mitigation banks, backed by dedicated stewardship endowments.
We hold and manage the dedicated stewardship endowments that fund a property’s care, in perpetuity.
Places to paddle, walk, fish, and explore — kept open for the people who love them.
Wetlands, streams, and forest left intact as working, breathing landscapes.
Habitat for the birds, fish, and wildlife that depend on healthy water and undisturbed land.
Founded as a Virginia land trust with a focus on conservation easements and mitigation-bank stewardship.
Cleared the threshold required to become a fully qualified conservation easement holder.
A Land Trust Alliance member, IRT-approved as a Long-Term Steward, stewarding land across 11 states.
Support keeps these places wild for good — and there is a path for landowners and mitigation-bank sponsors, too.