Conservation Easement Stewardship and Climate Change Policy

The discipline of risk management can help land trusts in preparing for natural disasters. This publication is designed to help you plan for new and changing risks to your organization and operations.

Sound conservation stewardship ensures perpetual protection of the conservation purposes of owned and protected land. Land trusts are now at a critical juncture between traditional stewardship administration and the demands from the material physical effects of changing conditions. This pointer addresses stewardship administration of conserved land in response to changing circumstances.

In this framework, NRCS identifies six major water and land resource management challenges, guidelines for identifying vulnerable agricultural landscapes and 13 strategies for NRCS leaders in western states to use now to collaborate with partners, water resource managers and producers.

This is a sample public policy practice from the accredited Jefferson Land Trust.

A sample conservation easement stewardship policy from the accredited Hudson Highlands Land Trust.