New York Land Trust Atlas

Join your peers from a spectrum of land, water and community-centered conservation organizations from across New York! With educational sessions, field trips, networking opportunities and more, the conference is essential for anyone working in the New York land conservation sector.

This five-part session is designed to orient new board members to Land Trust Standards and Practices and introduce them to the members of the New York land trust community. Executive directors are also welcome to join.

In this Lunch and Learn, Jamie Brown, New York program manager for the Land Trust Alliance and Brad Burns, staff attorney at the Open Space Institute will help you understand the complexities that come with selling land to the state of New York and help create a smoother sale. 

New York Court of Appeals held that environmental and conservation purposes are charitable within the meaning of New York's property tax exemption statute, and that especially where conservation land is open to and enjoyed by the public, it should enjoy exemption.

Discover where land banks, land banking programs, and CLTs (both community land trusts and conservation land trusts) are located across the U.S. and where they may have shared service areas for potential partnership opportunities.

Children learn to love nature by playing in it. To nurture that connection, a number of land trusts and conservation groups in Pennsylvania have created nature play areas within their preserves.

In 2020, the Western New York Land Conservancy introduced the Western New York Wildway. The WNY Wildway will be an extensive series of protected lands that connect the vast forests of northern Pennsylvania to the Great Lakes, through to the Finger Lakes, the Adirondacks and beyond.

The Western New York Land Conservancy prevailed in litigation against a wealthy neighbor who clear cut three large areas for roads and a pond.

This program helps avoid layoffs by allowing non-exempt employees with reduced hours to receive partial unemployment payments from the State of New York for up to 26 weeks.

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.