Is Your Land Trust Ready to Protect Water?

Land trusts with flexibility, expertise and ability to match different strategies with the water quality challenges in their areas are making a big difference, and this webinar showcases two such organizations.

Water is an important consideration to work into land trusts’ strategic conservation planning, and this webinar will showcase two different examples. 

Join us as we examine actions land trust executive directors, office administrators and other staff can take to prepare for and mitigate wind and water related risk for their organizations and other stakeholders.

Land trusts across the country are looking for retention strategies that will result in happier staff, decreased turnover and create stronger organizations. This webinar builds upon a popular Rally 2023 workshop to dive deeper into staff retention challenges and solutions.

Pass-through projects, where a land trust acquires land with the intention of another entity being the permanent owner, are a useful method of protecting land, but what does it take to accomplish them successfully?

Are you looking to connect with new landowners and those who own land neighboring your fee properties, but don't know where to start? If you want to reduce stewardship and trespass issues, find new projects on adjacent land or start off on the right foot with landowners, this webinar is for you.

Molly Fales of Colorado Cattlemen’s Agricultural Land Trust  and Karin Marchetti of Maine Coast Heritage Trust, both experienced legal counsels, will lead a webinar that highlights templates, plans and processes for planning and drafting legally sound enforceable conservation easements.  

Join conservation attorneys Ellen Fred and Misti Schmidt as they tackle the complexities of commercial use language in easement drafting and stewardship.  

As the senior, volunteer leader of the organization, you’re responsible for leading the board to fulfill its responsibilities for the oversight, thinking and governance of your land trust and for cultivating a working partnership with your executive director. Now what?