Leadership in Land Conservation

The Land Trust Alliance unites and champions organizations in local communities working to save natural areas. Because of our innovative work:

More landowners choose to protect their land.

By advocating with policy makers to improve land protection funding and the tax code benefits, more landowners can consider conserving their land instead of selling it.

Conservation leaders are more effective at saving land.

Given the increasingly sophisticated and technical nature of land conservation, the Land Trust Alliance provides the state-of-the-art tools, information and training that professional practitioners and volunteers need to effectively save land.

Strong nonprofits and legal systems are maintained to protect land in perpetuity.

The Land Trust Alliance recognizes that perpetuity is a very long time and that legal challenges will increasingly threaten conserved lands. The Alliance invests in strengthening a network of enduring nonprofit institutions and legal systems that can be counted on to safeguard land through the generations to come.

The public commitment to conservation is deepened.

The Alliance works to help the public understand and prioritize the importance of private land conservation. To build support for conservation, the Alliance helps community organizations develop, leverage and coordinate their communication efforts.

Read about the history of the Alliance

Alliance staff at our annual retreat in April 2008