Risk Management, Author at Conservation United

Diagram of bid bond, performance bond, payment bond, and maintenance bond across a trail construction timeline

Surety Bonds Trail Stewardship Organizations

Surety Bonds for Trail Construction: A Contractor’s Playbook

Surety Bonds for Trail Construction: A Contractor’s PlaybookA city parks bid package, a U.S. Forest Service connector, or a Recreational…

Risk ManagementOctober 5, 2026

Applicator spraying plant-based Komodo K-101 fire retardant along a fuel break on a land trust property

Wildfire Defense & Home Hardening Contractors

Wildfire Defense Insurance for Komodo Applicators: GL, E&O, and Pollution Coverage That Survives Certificate Review

This is not homeowner wildfire-defense service. It is the policy the applicator has to carry.If you searched “wildfire defense insurance,”…

Risk ManagementOctober 1, 2026

Conservation practitioner overseeing a prescribed burn with safety gear

Prescribed Fire Insurance

Prescribed Fire Insurance: What Conservation United Actually Covers in 2026

Prescribed Fire Insurance: What Conservation United Actually Covers in 2026Most landowners who want to put fire on the ground do…

Risk ManagementSeptember 28, 2026

Stainless pyrolysis unit beside screened biochar piles at a rural U.S. biomass yard

Biochar Insurance

Biochar Insurance 2026 Guide

Biochar in one paragraph (so the risk map makes sense)Biochar is the solid carbon left after biomass is heated with…

Risk ManagementSeptember 15, 2026

Diagram showing bid bond at proposal, performance and payment bonds at award, and maintenance bond after trail completion

Insurance

The Trail Contractor’s Bonding Playbook: How Conservation United Surety Bonds Get Public Trail Projects Awarded

The Trail Contractor’s Bonding Playbook: How Conservation United Surety Bonds Get Public Trail Projects AwardedMost trail contractors lose public work…

Risk ManagementSeptember 8, 2026

Work zones and open trails often occupy the same corridor—the liability question land managers ask first.

Agency News Business Insurance Nonprofit Insurance Trail Stewardship Organizations

Trail Maintenance & Construction Insurance

Trail Maintenance & Construction Insurance: The Coverage Stack Land Managers, Grantors, and Volunteers Actually Need Most trail projects do not…

Risk ManagementSeptember 2, 2026

Diverse Friends Group volunteers using hand tools to repair a public park trail beside a forested stream

Friends Groups

The Agency Insurance Myth: Why Friends Groups Need Their Own Policy — and How Conservation United Builds It Around Park Work

The Agency Insurance Myth: Why Friends Groups Need Their Own Policy — and How Conservation United Builds It Around Park…

Risk ManagementSeptember 1, 2026

Certified burn crew holding a blackline during a prescribed fire on mixed-conifer forest land in the western United States.

Prescribed Fire Insurance

Prescribed Fire Insurance | Conservation United 2026 Guide

Why Standard Farm and GL Policies Fail Prescribed Fire — and How Conservation United’s Nationwide Program Is Built DifferentlyPrescribed fire…

Risk ManagementAugust 31, 2026

Nature Schools

Nature School Insurance from Conservation United: What Outdoor Programs Actually Need in 2026

Nature School Insurance from Conservation United: NatureGuard Coverage, Common Gaps, and What Parks RequireMost nature school directors do not lose…

Risk ManagementAugust 27, 2026

Wildfire defense contractor spraying plant-based fire retardant on vegetation near homes at the wildland-urban interface

Wildfire Defense & Home Hardening Contractors

Why Fire Retardant Applicators Cannot Rely on a Standard CGL Policy

Wildfire Defense Insurance: GL, E&O, and Pollution Coverage for Komodo and Other Fire Retardant ApplicatorsThe work changed. Most insurance policies…

Risk ManagementAugust 26, 2026