Saving Land, Spring 2006 (Vol. 25 No. 2)
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About This Saving Land
3 President’s Column
Signs of a Thaw
4 Public Policy Update
Some New IRS Requirements
6 Land Trust Standards, Practices and Accreditation
History in the Making
7 Advocacy in Action
A new column explores the relevance of advocacy to the land conservation movement, with first guest-columnist Tom Bailey.
9 An Emerging Trend: Could a Merger Be in Your Land Trust’s Future?
As more land trusts take a serious look at this option, what are the factors that influence the best outcome?
14 Using Limited Development to Conserve Land and Natural Resources
Research yields new perspectives on a conservation strategy that has been around for a long time.
20 Sharing the Land, Sharing the Lessons: Land Trust Commitments to Environmental Education
The author revisits a firmly established component of the land trust movement and reveals the myriad ways that land trusts are engaging in environmental education.
25 Better Ways to Map Conservation Lands
Changes in technology, data and effectiveness are all creating a much easier pathway for land trusts of any size to use computer-based mapping in saving land.
29 One Community
Land trusts and the Land Trust Alliance support each other to advance land conservation.
32 Land Trust Alliance News
Accreditation Commission news; new hires and more.
36 Land Trust Gleanings and Good News
39 Voices from the Land
“Volunteers–Our Extended Family” Elisabeth Ptak
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