Land Trusts and Water: Strategies and Resources for Addressing Water in Western Land Conservation

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.

​Land trusts across the West recognize the need for a rigorous and holistic approach to water in conservation planning and delivery. But do you and your organization feel uncertain where to start?

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

The guide focuses on two active geographies as models of where land protection and water quality are highly integrated pursuits: the Chesapeake Bay Watershed and the Great Lakes Basin.

The spring 2024 edition of Saving Land highlights programs for women in land conservation, features land trusts working for dark skies and gives advice for how land trusts can engage younger audiences.

Land trusts are stepping forward to help guide the design and siting of new solar facilities, always keeping top-of-mind the preservation of agricultural, ecological and other conservation resources.

Learn how your land trust can tap into this underutilized source of federal funding to protect land and improve water quality in your community.​

This is an estate planning intent form from the accredited Greenbelt Land Trust.