The Land Trust Alliance promotes voluntary private land conservation to benefit communities and natural systems.

We are the national convener, strategist and representative of more than 1,600 land trusts across America.

Goals:

• Dramatically expand the pace of land conservation (through tax incentives)
• Build strong land trusts
• Defend the permanence of conservation easements
• Ensure that the work of land trusts is as strategically directed as possible

Services:

• Training
• Publications
• Census of Land Trusts
• Lobbying
• Digital Library
• Grants
• Regional Program Offices
• Liability Insurance for Land Trusts

Accomplishments:

• Pioneered the use of conservation easements to conserve private land
• Development of Land Trust Standards and Practices, the guidelines for ethical performance by land trusts