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    Land Trust Alliance members grow and thrive through careful investment.

    Membership provides essential benefits to land trust and affiliate members so their team can have access to trainings, guidance, educational resources, networking events and other important programs, and we want to provide that to your organization. Learn how land trusts and conservation organizations across the country are taking advantage of these member benefits.

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    Strength in numbers

    Land trusts help connect people to nature and protect the lands we all need and love:  

    80%

    of land trusts provide public access to their protected lands, amounting to 1.2 million acres of land open to the public. 

    9,761

    Land trusts operate more than 9,761 miles of trails for public use, including 997 trail miles designed for universal access.  

    16.7 million

    people visited land trusts properties and 6.4 million people participated in land trust programs in 2020.

    76%

    of land trusts have increased their focus on community engagement in the past five years. 

    40 Years of Conservation Success

    The Land Trust Alliance, along with the community of land trusts it serves, has grown tremendously over the last 40 years. Together, we have conserved more than 61 million acres. The Alliance is committed to doubling that number by the end of the decade.

    Building community

    The Alliance is here for you.

    Land trust and affiliate members of the Land Trust Alliance become part of a powerful community that’s advancing private land conservation across the country.

    • Alliance members are land trusts, conservation professionals, agencies, state associations and other nonprofits working in land conservation.

    • Every year thousands of conservation professionals gather to learn, connect and be inspired at Rally: The National Land Conservation Conference.

    • Since 2018, the Alliance has convened more than 45,890 conservation practitioners through our conferences, trainings, webinars and peer group events.

    “One of the strengths of the Alliance is creating a space where we all learn and share and help each other toward the goal of saving land.”
    — David Calle, board member, Northeast Wisconsin Land Trust
    Expert support

    The support your organization needs to thrive.

    The Land Trust Alliance's dedicated and passionate staff supports land trusts by creating and delivering training, tools, information and resources, and responding to member challenges and opportunities. Alliance members receive invaluable benefits, from trainings and educational resources to opportunities for connection with peers and conservation experts. In the last five years:

    • The Alliance has created more than 850 learning and networking opportunities for its members.

    • 13,139 people have visited the Alliance’s Resource Center to access educational tools, online courses, sample documents and more.

    • More than 100 land trust leaders have participated in the Alliance’s two-year leadership program to learn and plan strategically for their land trusts’ future.

    “Throughout my land trust career, I have continued to benefit from [the Alliance’s] expert trainings, national policy work and resources to ensure the professionalism and integrity of our land conservation sector.”
    — Jeannette Tuitele-Lewis, executive director of Big Sur Land Trust and member of the Land Trust Leadership Council
    Collective impact

    A powerful force for nature.

    Land trusts have conserved more than 61 million acres of private land across the nation — more than all of America’s national parks combined. And they are working to double that number by the end of the decade. Membership with the Land Trust Alliance makes all of us stronger. Together, land trusts and the Alliance have achieved so much, including: 

    • Helping to secure billions of dollars in funding for conservation through legislation such as the Farm Bill, the single largest source of federal funding for private land conservation in the U.S.  

    • Establishing Land Trust Standards and Practices so that land trusts can follow best practices and developing an accreditation program to encourage excellence and increase public confidence. 

    • Creating a conservation network and insurance program so land trusts can defend their conservation easements and fight the legal battles necessary to keep lands protected forever.

    “The Alliance allows for collective investment in all land trusts and the power of the collective to provide what would not be possible on just a local level.”
    — David Hartwell, former Alliance board member