Learn Practice Element 6A5: Stewardship and Defense Funding

This guidance covers Practice Element 6A5: Build and maintain dedicated or restricted funds sufficient to cover the long term costs of stewarding and defending the land trust’s land and conservation easements.

Land Trust Standards and Practices, Practice 6A. Fiscal Health, includes five elements. This module addresses Practice 6A4: Build and maintain sufficient operating reserves to sustain operations.

This guidance covers Practice 6A: Fiscal Health.

Land Trust Standards and Practices, Practice 9E: Conservation Easement Drafting, includes two elements. This 20-minute module covers the first element, 9E1.

Land Trust Standards and Practices, Practice 9G: Recordkeeping, includes three elements. This module addresses the first element, 9G1.

The key to achieving lasting conservation outcomes is to ensure that sufficient funding is available for long-term stewardship. This calculator can be used by land managers to estimate the long-term stewardship costs associated with voluntary conservation projects.