More than 3.5 million acres of land in southern Indiana will be protected to form the Southern Indiana Sentinel Landscape.
Indigenous Hawaiian communities traditionally made hale shelters (pronounced “ha-lay”) out of local materials, but over time the practice was replaced by Western-style houses and nearly lost.
Community-centered conservation offers an opportunity to reach more people than ever before, by doing land conservation in new, different and more inclusive ways to connect with those in the diverse places that we live.
Native Americans once used the tree as a ceremonial meeting place. The land surrounding the tree has also been a plantation, a freedman’s village and a place where Johns Islanders, including Civil Rights activist Septima P. Clark, could rest under the shade.
In this series, we'll periodically check in with former and current scholars on their experiences with the Scholars for Conservation Leadership Program, as well as what's next for them in their careers.
The San Juan Islands Preservation Trust is in its fifteenth year of managing its Western Bluebird Reintroduction Project in the Pacific Northwest.
For their land stewardship, the Pankey Ranch received the 2022 Colorado Leopold Conservation Award.
Annual gatherings in northeast Oregon are working to bring people together, heal historical trauma and reconnect Indigenous people with their ancestral homelands.
A Trappist Cistercian monastery established in 1947 by World War II veteran monks, the Huntsville Monastery will provide critical winter habitat for hundreds of Rocky Mountain elk and serve as a wildlife corridor for two endangered species: the Canada lynx and yellow-billed cuckoo.
After years of hard work and persistence by the Land Trust Alliance, our land trust members and our allies on Capitol Hill — and in the face of well-resourced opposition — Congress finally passed the Charitable Conservation Easement Program Integrity Act as part of its year-end “omnibus” spending bill.