Conserve
To balance the use and protection of resources with the intent of sustaining resources for future generations

Conservation
The balance of use and protection of resources with the intent of sustaining resources for future generations

Cultural Landscapes
Cultural landscapes are those places and spaces that define a region by reflecting localized human use and development of natural resources. These geographic areas contain individual natural and cultural resources such as farms, villages, formal gardens, parks, commons, meeting grounds, cemeteries, camps, scenic vistas, and long distance views, among others.

Greenways
Corridors of open space, public and/or private, designated for recreational purposes, conservation purposes, or both. Greenways may or may not include trails. Greenways with trails support non-motorized transportation, e.g. walking and bicycling, and outdoor recreation.  Greenways without trails provide conservation corridors for environmental quality and wildlife. Examples include ridgelines, wildlife migration corridors, and waterways and their banks.

Open Space
Areas that exist primarily in their natural condition. Open space includes working lands such as farmland and forested lands, wetlands, areas where natural communities of vegetation and wildlife exist, forested ridgelines, wooded riparian areas, and rivers and streams in public or private ownership.

Open Space Network
A planned, interconnected system of conserved open spaces that supports ecological processes and may provide opportunities for outdoor recreation. 

Preserve
To assure continued existence with minimal degradation to condition or quality.

Preservation
Actions taken to assure continued existence.

Protect
To limit development and its impacts other than for conservation-related uses.

Protection
The limitation of development and its impacts other than for conservation-related uses.

Recreation:
Activities that are freely chosen, usually in one’s free time, and that produce feelings of well being, fulfillment, enjoyment, and relaxation. Activities may express creativity or offer opportunities to develop and master new skills.

Active Recreation
   Leisure time activities on land or water that provide physical    exertion and benefit. Active recreation activities include sports,    walking, hiking, running, (mountain) biking, swimming, ice    skating, cross-country skiing, and snowshoeing.

Passive Recreation
   Outdoor activities that create opportunities for independence,    closeness to nature, and a high degree of interaction with the    natural environment and which require no organization, rules of    play, facilities, or the installation of equipment, other than
   those which may be necessary to protect the natural    environment. Such activities can include wildlife watching,    nature study, non-motorized boating, fishing, hiking, walking,    and other activities generally in harmony with protecting the    natural environment.

High impact recreation
   Activities that affect the natural environment through facilities    (construction, use and maintenance) or the intensity of the    recreational activity. High impact recreation activities and their    impacts include organized sports (field development);
   motorized recreational vehicles (emissions); in-line skating    (paved surfaces); and hiking, horseback riding, and mountain    biking (soil compaction).

Low impact recreation
   Activities that minimally affect the natural environment. Low    impact recreation activities include wildlife watching, camping,    hunting, fishing, cross-country skiing, trapping, nature study,    ice skating, snowshoeing, and non-motorized boating.

Self-directed recreation
    Activities carried out as chosen by the individual. Activities
    may be active or passive in nature.

Organized recreation
   Activities programmed and structured for individual or group    participation. Activities may be active or passive in nature.

Community recreation
   Activities offered by a municipality or community organization    that offer citizens an opportunity to socialize while enjoying    active or passive recreational activities.