5 questions about land trusts

Fragmentation, dividing large tracts of land into smaller pieces, is one of the nation’s most urgent conservation challenges. Lorie Woodward sat down with Erin Heskett, Vice President of Conservation Initiatives for the Land Trust Alliance, the national strategist, advocate, think tank and trainer for its 950 land trust members that serve 93 percent of the counties in the U.S. Over the past 40 years, the Alliance’s member land trusts have conserved more land than all our national parks combined. (Full magazine issue here.)