Land Trust Alliance 2007-2008 Highlights

The work of our nation’s 1,700 land trusts is essential to clean air, clean water, wildlife, and the quality of life in communities across America. From a farmer producing local food to a kid playing in a neighborhood park, people depend on us—the land trust community—to help them save the places they love.

But we don’t have much time. In the next 25 years, 50 million acres will be developed, paving over the land we need for healthy lives and ecosystems.

Land trusts made great strides for land conservation in 2007—the Land Trust Alliance’s 25th anniversary year.As a community, we have positioned land trusts to turn the tide on the critical loss of land in America and double the pace of conservation nationwide. As a friend of the Land Trust Alliance, I thought you would enjoy reading the highlights from this year and our top priorities for 2008. Thank you for all that you do to save land.

- Rand Wentworth
President, Land Trust Alliance

Learn more about the successes of 2007 and our challenges for 2008 (PDF; 516KB)