Writing letters or op-eds in support of the 30x30 goal

You can help build support for voluntary private land conservation and counter disinformation while you build — or strengthen — your land trust’s relationship with local media by writing a letter to the editor or an op-ed for your local newspaper. This document offers guidance to assist you in crafting such a piece.

You can help advance the 2023 Farm Bill in Congress while you build — or strengthen — your land trust’s relationship with local media by writing a letter to (or op-ed for) your local newspaper. This document offers guidance to assist you in crafting such a piece.

You can help advance the Charitable Conservation Easement Program Integrity Act in Congress while you build — or strengthen — your land trust’s relationship with local media by writing a letter to (or op-ed for) your local newspaper. This document offers guidance to assist you in crafting such a piece.

The Land Trust Alliance has assembled this toolkit to assist you in advocating in support of 30x30. With your help, we can achieve this worthy goal and advance long-held conservation priorities for our community.

This issue of Saving Land highlights how land trusts can lead the way in the national 30x30 goal, defend private land conservation from state legislative attacks, help communities build local resilience and more.

Letters to the editor and op-eds are strongest when local authors craft them. But we can work together to write the strongest possible letter or op-ed.

Land trusts across the country are setting new and bigger goals as part of a global movement to increase the pace of conservation and address challenges such as climate change, loss of habitat and agricultural lands, and to ensure equitable access to the land.