NHI is a non-governmental, non-profit organization founded in 1989 by a group of experienced conservation lawyers and scientists who foresaw the need for a toolkit for the next era of environmental problem-solving: where the technical challenges are more complex, the solutions more elusive, the economics more central, the ramifications more global, and the conventional pathways less efficacious. NHI’s core mission is to restore and protect the natural functions that support water-dependent ecosystems and the services they provide to sustain and enrich human life.

Wise and prudent stewardship is a function of the laws, institutions, techniques, and incentives that bear on resource management decisions. These seldom keep pace with accelerating change and mounting demands. The mission of the Natural Heritage Institute is to bridge that gap. To these ends, NHI applies a wide array of tools and strategies including, deploying predictive simulations of water resource systems, on-the-ground ecological restoration projects, the design of improved management and institutional arrangements, policy analysis, and legal advocacy and interventions.

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