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    2026 Advocacy Days

    The Land Trust Alliance’s 2026 Advocacy Days will allow passionate land conservation practitioners to come together to meet with federal lawmakers and advance important land trust policies in a way that no single 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 valuable.

    2026 Advocacy Days will take place in Washington, D.C., April 13-16.

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    Activities

    The Alliance invites staff, board members, landowners and volunteers of Alliance member land trusts to participate in our annual four-day advocacy event to make a 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.

    2025 Advocacy Days

    In 2025, the Land Trust Alliance welcomed 143 dedicated land conservation professionals to Washington, D.C., for its 14th annual Advocacy Days event May 5-8.

    The event featured high-profile speakers and nearly 220 meetings with congressional offices to discuss key issues and share strategies to advance conservation goals.

    This is my first Advocacy Days with the Land Trust Alliance, and I’m so happy to be here because the Alliance has done a fabulous job setting up appointments and meetings with all of our representatives in both Idaho and Wyoming.

    — Kim Trotter, executive director of Teton Regional Land Trust

    As part of the event, Advocacy Days attendees and partners, as well as members of Congress and their staff, came together for an evening reception to celebrate voluntary private land conservation. Multiple esteemed officials and members of Congress addressed the crowd, including Rep. Angie Craig (D-Minn.), Sen. Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.V.) and Natural Resources Conservation Service Chief Aubrey Bettencourt.

    2025 Successes

    The 2025 Land Trust Alliance Advocacy Days included:

    • 168 diverse land trust leaders from 40 states who either logged on to their computers or joined us in Washington, D.C., to participate.

    • Attendees conducted nearly 220 in-person meetings with members of the Senate and House of Representatives and their staff.

    • A reception celebrating voluntary private land conservation.

    Photos from 2025 Advocacy Days

    • A group of seven professionally dressed people stand smiling on a lawn with the U.S. Capitol building in the background on a clear day.
    • Six people in formal attire having a meeting around a wooden table in an office with bookshelves and an American flag.
    • Four people standing in a room with framed landscape photos, dressed in business and smart casual attire, smiling at the camera.
    • Five people engaged in a discussion in an office with a U.S. flag, a large window with blue curtains, and shelves with books in the background.
    • A large group of people standing on the grass in front of the U.S. Capitol building on a clear day.
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