Buffalo Olmsted Parks Conservancy

the buffalo olmsted parks conservancy is a not-for-profit, membership-based, community organization. beginning as the friends of the olmsted parks in 1978, it entered a public/private partnership with the city of buffalo in 1995. through a city-county-conservancy agreement that became effective on july 1, 2004, it became the first not-for-profit organization in the nation to manage a park system. our mission: to promote, preserve, restore, enhance, and ensure maintenance of frederick law olmsted-designed parks and parkways in the greater buffalo area now and for future generations. the conservancy recently released its plan for the 21st century, a blueprint for the management and restoration of the entire park system. listed on the national register of historic places, the olmsted system in buffalo is the first of its kind in the nation designed by america’s greatest landscape architect.