The Community Conservation Assistance Project had the following goal and objectives: Goal: Sustain and protect open space lands identified by communities and land trusts as critical to water quality and biodiversity through voluntary land conservation. Objectives: (1) With the SPNHF and other partners, establish a seacoast office for the Center for Land Conservation Assistance. (2) Provide education to various audiences in the seacoast region. (3) Create a library of relevant materials (4) Develop and compile publications (5) Establish with the SPNHF and other partners and participate in the first annual NH Land Conservation Conference (6) Evaluate program effectiveness (7) Coordinate town projects associated with the Natural Outreach Coalition. The NROC met the project objectives through a variety of methods. The principal one was to offer a presentation titled, NROC Dealing With Growth followed one week later with a meeting of all interested parties to formulate action plans to address issues the presentation raises. During the project period, four of our client communities participated in this approach: Dover, Exeter, Newfields, and Stratham.