Counting what matters

This issue of Saving Land features results from the National Land Trust Census, including inspiring stories and the incredible collective impact of land trusts working to protect lands and address the needs of their communities.

This publication provides the findings from a December 2020 Land Trust Alliance survey of land trusts around the country on disability inclusion.

The fall 1998 issue of Exchange (now Saving Land) features local and regional land trusts showing growth based on results from the National Land Trust Census, highlights how land trusts are protecting farms with agricultural easements and shares the results of the land trust salary survey.

In partnership with the University of Wisconsin Survey Center, the Land Trust Alliance surveyed more than 800 member land trusts last spring to gain a better understanding of the nature and extent of easement modification and termination within the land trust community.

In this Saving Land article, we share stories and perspectives of conservation land trusts and community land trusts finding opportunities to come together. Some are pursuing a joint mission of affordable housing and land conservation and others are inventing new ways to conserve land for all.

Land trusts across the country are setting new and bigger goals as part of a global movement to increase the pace of conservation and address challenges such as climate change, loss of habitat and agricultural lands, and to ensure equitable access to the land.

The spring 2020 issue of Saving Land highlights Land Trust Alliance President and CEO Andrew Bowman's Rally 2019 speech for land trusts to act with urgency, discusses how land trusts can curb the decline of birds across the country and how land trusts support native plants species.

Land and water are inextricably connected, and protecting one often necessitates protecting the other. This book offers practical tools and resources to help land trusts address water-related conservation values in their private land conservation work.

The Winter 2017 issue of Saving Land celebrates the collective impact of land trusts as reported on the 2015 National Land Trust Census, includes Andrew Bowman's first Rally speech as Alliance president and CEO and tells the story of how Terrafirma supported a land trust in California.

The summer 2022 issue features stories of how the Alliance has helped land trusts transform over the past 40 years, ways land trusts are facing the challenges of natural disasters and new resources to help land trusts take the plunge into water quality protection projects.