Document / Saving Land

Saving Land, Winter 2011 (Vol. 30 No. 1)

Posted 2011
Source
Land Trust Alliance
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