2023 Land and Climate Program Grant Information Session

The Open Space Institute and the Land Trust Alliance are pleased to announce the 2024 Land and Climate Grant Program. This online information session will make sure you’re able to build the best application possible.

​​Join Open Space Institute and Land Trust Alliance for a virtual Land and Climate Program Project Showcase! The session will feature short presentations from three land trusts that completed climate planning or communications projects with support from the Land and Climate Grant Program.

This is a sample of two online tools for identifying priority areas for conservation action and estimating benefit metrics for specific properties developed by the Conservation Trust for North Carolina and the Nicholas Institute for Energy, Environment & Sustainability at Duke University.

A series of fact sheets communicating the benefits of natural climate solutions.

This report from the Land Trust Alliance and the Open Space Institute aims to provide helpful guidance on how to connect on climate change and information to help land trusts respond to the greatest challenge of our time.

The climate is changing and bringing more uncertainty to the future conditions of forests. As a landowner, you can make decisions to reduce the vulnerabilities and advance the resilience of your woods. Read these 12 steps to learn more about what you can do, today, to protect your woods.

This toolbox will help you build skills so that you are prepared to operate calmly, confidently, efficiently and effectively in the face of legal challenges. Although this toolbox focuses primarily on the challenges of defending conservation easements, the litigation issues and strategies are applicable to fee-owned lands.

Select examples of social media posts and postcards that bolster the benefits of natural climate solutions.

The new guide provides criteria for the selection, completion, and management of land protection projects, for the successful capture and storage of carbon.

The Adaptation Workbook is a structured process to consider the potential effects of climate change and design land management and conservation actions that can help prepare for changing conditions.