“Achieves large scale conservation success.”
Keith is a highly skilled negotiator and a master at creating and completing innovative and often complex real estate transactions to achieve large scale conservation success. He is an incredible strategic thinker with the ability to foresee outcomes of actions long before they materialize.
— Rebecca Perry, Florida Field Representative at The Conservation Fund
“Knows what it takes.”
Keith Fountain has an incredible wealth of both conservation and real estate knowledge and savvy. I worked with Keith Fountain for almost twenty years at The Nature Conservancy, and as a result of Keith's knowledge, dedication and creativity, Keith had an amazing track record. Keith knows what it takes to get a project completed from relationship building to project management.
— Laura Robinson, Senior Attorney at The Nature Conservancy, Southern US Region
“As strategic as he is creative.”
Whether he is developing and pursing a novel conservation strategy, bringing together partners and stakeholders who otherwise would not have come to the negotiating table, or finding funding sources during challenging economic times, Keith has a unique ability to succeed no matter the odds and has thus been able to make a true difference in the conservation of Florida's natural areas. Driven by a genuine optimism and a true love of nature, Keith always looks for what can be done to save a place. Yet he is as strategic as he is creative: a gifted leader who is able to balance the practical realities of politics and real estate with the lofty goals of the environmental movement.
— Cheryl Mall, Public Information Officer at City of Melbourne, Florida
“Knowledgeable and innovative.”
Keith is one of the most knowledgeable and innovative environmental land professionals I've had the pleasure to work with. Over the past 15+ years we have worked on successful environmental land transactions valued in the tens of millions of dollars an preserved tens of thousands of environmentally sensitive acres in the state of Florida. Keith is highly professional, current, diligent, and is truly a gentleman.
— John Browne, Land Programs Administrator at Florida Forest Service
“Enjoyable to work with.”
I worked closely with Keith on a number of forest conservation transactions, and directly alongside him in the development of the strategic conservation agenda for TNC in Florida, as well as the initiation of the Longleaf Integrated Landscape (region wide in the South). I always found Keith to be very good at high-level thinking and long-term strategy, as well as collaborative, yet decisive in setting direction for his program. He's also a very capable deal-maker, and enjoyable to work with, and enjoys both the respect and friendship of his colleagues.
— Paul Trianosky, Independent Consultant in Forest Conservation and Sustainability
