The work of the Biophilia Foundation is premised on the belief that only private landowners’ efforts to restore and protect natural resources, especially wildlife habitat, will recover the living resources of the degraded lands and watersheds of our country. While economically sound working lands are essential to our well being, so is the health and proper function of the natural systems upon which our economy and our existence is based. Government agencies and regulators can improve water quality and manage core refuges, parks and open space. Only private landowners’ efforts will be able to buffer and connect these existing core areas to allow long term recovery and survival of our living resources and the ecosystems that also sustain us.