Welcome to The Dodson Group, your source for educational resources regarding CONSERVATION LIFESTYLES. I am committed to fostering environmental stewardship and promoting sustainable practices. We offer insights and practical guidance to empower individuals, communities, and organizations on their journey toward a greener and more sustainable future. Explore our curated content and join us in our mission to cultivate a harmonious relationship between humans and the natural world.

The Dodson Group, LLC,  produces and publishes educational information to promote a greater understanding and appreciation of nature and natural resource management. Through regular posts on our Blog, I provide information that I hope readers will find interesting and useful. As someone who has been involved in conservation and education for many years, I also offer my thoughts and opinions through this site and Blog.

Part of the mission is to advocate what I call Conservation Landscape Management. That means managing properties in ways that benefit human use and, at the same time, conserve and protect wildlife and water quality. I advocate Conservation Landscape Management where people live, work, and play. Through the Blog featured on this website, we write about various aspects of Conservation Landscape Management, hoping that readers will find the information interesting and useful. In addition to the blog, I  also produce books, white papers, and fact sheets about Conservation Landscape Management. People continually ask, “What can I do?” For one thing, everyone can practice conservation landscape management where they live, work and play. This makes environmental and economic sense.

Community Sustainability

In addition to producing and publishing educational information regarding conservation landscape management, we also produce information about sustainability. Beyond the environmental focus, we also write about economic viability and social betterment. These three topics; Environmental, Economic and Social are the three components of sustainability. Our ultimate goal is to advocate community sustainability. However, I believe that this can only be achieved one person and one place at a time.

Another example of what everyone can do is reduce, reuse and recycle. This includes making a majority of your purchases from thrift stores, and online shopping platforms, like eBay. We live in a society where waste seems to be a way of life. The EPA reports that Americans generate 16 million tons of textile waste a year, equaling just over six percent of total municipal waste (for context, plastics make up 13 percent of our waste stream). On average, 700,000 tons of used clothing gets exported overseas and 2.5 million tons of clothing is recycled. But over three million tons are incinerated, and a staggering 10 million tons get sent to landfills. We are filling up landfills faster than new ways of handling all of the waste that is generated by our buying habits and the result is the loss of important wildlife habitat, polluted water, and wasted energy needed to produce new items and then we dispose of all of a significant percentage of the items that are created. Simply put…this is not sustainable! This growing pile of “waste” is one reason we created The Conservation Company. Through The Conservation Company, we sell items that may otherwise end up in landfills and generate funding for various conservation, environmental education and historic preservation projects.