Results of the Land Trust Alliance's Disability Inclusion Survey

This list of resources was created by the Advisory Council on Inclusive Health and Disability to accompany the guide Open to All: A Disability Inclusion Guide for Land Trusts. These resources can help your land trust learn how to adopt inclusive practices that benefit people with disabilities.

Created in 2021, this publication provides examples, advice and guidelines to help land trusts address and remove the barriers that prevent inclusion of people with disabilities in programs and on nature preserves.

To help land trusts to better engage with and include people with disabilities, the Land Trust Alliance, in partnership with the Lakeshore Foundation, created a guide that provides concrete steps to expand your land trust's diversity, equity and inclusion efforts.

In partnership with the University of Wisconsin Survey Center, the Land Trust Alliance surveyed more than 800 member land trusts last spring to gain a better understanding of the nature and extent of easement modification and termination within the land trust community.

Results from the nation's longest-running survey of private land conservation are in. The numbers, and the stories of individual land trusts, show the collective impact of land trusts across the country to protect land and address the needs of their communities.

As accessibility and inclusion become a high priority for land trusts, many ask: where do we start? This webinar will feature the founder of Disabled Hikers, Syren Nagakyrie, as they discuss ways our land trust members can center and uplift the voices and expertise of the disability community.

The fall 1998 issue of Exchange (now Saving Land) features local and regional land trusts showing growth based on results from the National Land Trust Census, highlights how land trusts are protecting farms with agricultural easements and shares the results of the land trust salary survey.

It's been my experience that rarely is disability and accessibility part of the diversity, equity, inclusion and justice (DEIJ) conversation, which I find a little intriguing because disability is a part of all human existence.

In this audio recording, panelists discuss how land trusts can become more inclusive of those with disabilities. Discover concrete steps to expand your land trust's diversity, equity and inclusion efforts with an emphasis on people with disabilities.

When a landowner hands you a survey they had done, or you find a survey in the process of acquiring a new easement or preserve, it is highly tempting to stash the survey away in the file drawer and forget about it. But then you may have a bigger problem!