Saving Land, Winter 2011 (Vol. 30 No. 1)
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About This Saving Land
5 From the President
A pivotal time in history
8 Conservation News
Defense insurance update, grants for accredited land trusts in two regions, heritage breeds help farmers, partnering with conservation districts
10 Policy Roundup
End-of-year call to action, words of encouragement from the Department of Interior
12 Voiced
Numbers and statistics show land trust successes, but what about the stories behind the work?
14 Managing Mergers
When land trusts explore merging to increase their capacity, raise the level of professionalism and help their bottom lines, they need to manage the process carefully to ensure success.
18 Better Together: Land Trusts Win by Collaborating
Collaborations among land trusts take many forms, but whatever the configuration, the benefits include information sharing, a broadened reach, stronger ties to the community and better success meeting conservation goals.
20 A Stark Beauty
For five generations the same family has run Folger Howell Farm in Ohio. Tecumseh Land Trust has protected the farm as an exemplary blend of working land, habitat, forest and agritourism
24 Conservation Defense and Enforcement in the Land Trust Community
The results of a 2009 academic study on conservation defense indicate that land trust legal defense and enforcement challenges are common, varied and increasing. So what are we going to do about it?
28 Board Matters
Strategies for resolving conflicts, board challenge update
31 Accreditation Corner
What they wish they had known—three land trusts tell it like it is
32 Fundraising Wisdom
Two women’s odyssey across America to raise money for their local land trust
34 Resources & Tools
RallyNet, great map ideas, a new guide to the Farm Bill written for land trusts
36 People & Places
Rally 2010 in review
38 Inspired
Don’t let the moment pass
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