How conserving land helps fight climate change

Growing up in Wooster, Ohio, Erin Heskett reveled in the outdoors, especially exploring the woods and fishing in the streams that surrounded his home in rural, north-central Ohio. But he also saw those natural landscapes increasingly threatened, diminished and destroyed by development. Today, as vice president of conservation initiatives at the Land Trust Alliance, he advocates for accelerating the pace and elevating the impact of land conservation across the United States.