Land Trust Alliance

Land Trust Alliance

The Land Trust Alliance is a national conservation group representing more than 1,700 land trusts across the United States. The organization describes its objectives as working to increase the pace and quality of conservation by advocating favorable tax policies, training land trusts in best practices, and working to ensure the permanence of conservation in the face of continuing threats. 2007 marked the 25th anniversary of the group. The Land Trust Alliance is based in Washington, DC. As of August 2008, national, regional and local land trusts have conserved a total of convert|37000000|acre|km2 of land in America. [ [http://www.landtrustalliance.org/about-us/who-we-are/history The Land Trust Alliance] - Official website, August, 2008.]

Mission

The Land Trust Alliance saves the places people love by strengthening land conservation across America.

ee also

*Allegheny Land Trust
*Branford Land Trust
*Capitol Land Trust (CLT)
*Cave Conservancies
*Community land trust (CLT)
*Forest Legacy Program
*Genesee Valley Conservancy (GVC)
*Greater Worcester Land Trust
*High Country Conservancy
*Land and Water Conservation Fund (LWCF)
*Mountain Conservation Trust of Georgia (MCTGA)
*Mount Grace Land Conservation Trust
*Natural Lands Trust
*Oak Ridges Moraine Land Trust
*South End Lower Roxbury Open Space Land Trust
*Southside Community Land Trust
*Sudbury Valley Trustees (SVT)
*The Trust for Public Land (TPL)
*The Wildlife Trusts partnership
*Upper Valley Land Trust
*Vermont Land Trust
*Waltham Land Trust
*Wilderness Land Trust
*World Land Trust - US
*Sustainability
*Biodiversity
*Global warming
*Ecology
*Earth Science
*Natural environment
*Recycling

External links

* [http://www.landtrustalliance.org/ the Land Trust Alliance website]
* [http://www.geneseevalleyconservancy.org/ the Genesee Valley Conservancy website (Western New York)]
* [http://www.sudburyvalleytrustees.org/ Sudbury Valley Trustees website (Sudbury, Massachusetts)]


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