2025 Advocacy Days

The Land Trust Alliance’s 2025 Advocacy Days will allow passionate land conservation practitioners to come together to meet with a new Congress and advance important land trust policies in a way that no one land trust could do by itself. Attendees will have the opportunity to partake in both virtual and in-person activities as well as share stories about how conserving our nation’s land and water is helping their districts and states. Your participation is as important as it is truly valuable.

2025 Advocacy Days will take place in Washington, D.C., May 5-8.

Learn more and register

Activities

The Alliance invites staff, board members and volunteers of Alliance member land trusts to participate in our annual four-day advocacy event to make a significant difference in land conservation. As part of Advocacy Days, you’ll have the opportunity to: 

Become an Ambassador

The Ambassador program helps to support a united land trust network, advocating for policy priorities that benefit both conservation work and the land trust community nationwide.

2024 Advocacy Days

The Land Trust Alliance welcomed 132 dedicated land conservation professionals to Washington, D.C., for its 13th annual Advocacy Days event on April 15-18.

The event featured high-profile speakers and nearly 200 meetings with congressional offices to discuss key issues and share strategies to advance conservation goals.

I felt nervous and excited but mainly honored to represent my local land trust and the efforts toward private land conservation.

— Kaolin Randall, board member for the Central Arizona Land Trust

As part of the event, Advocacy Days attendees, partners and members of Congress and their staff came together for an evening reception to celebrate voluntary private land conservation and the more than 5.5 million acres of working lands conserved through Natural Resources Conservation Service Farm Bill easement programs. Multiple esteemed officials and members of Congress addressed the crowd, including former Sen. Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.), Sen. John Boozman (R-Ark.), Rep. Andrew Garbarino (R-N.Y.) and NRCS Regional Conservationist for the Central Region Curtis Elke.

2024 Successes

The 2024 Land Trust Alliance Advocacy Days included:

  • 132 diverse land trust leaders from 33 states either logging on to their computers or joining us in Washington, D.C., to participate.

  • Attendees conducted nearly 200 in-person meetings with members of the Senate and House of Representatives and their staff.

  • A reception celebrating NRCS conservation easement programs.

Photos from 2024 Advocacy Days