Background to the New Curriculum

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A Tradition of Support

For over 20 years, the Land Trust Alliance has provided leadership and training to help land trusts develop the necessary skills to conserve land for the benefit of their communities and natural systems.

In 2005 Land Trust Alliance completed a comprehensive evaluation of all of our training and education programs to ensure that they are as useful as possible to the land trust community. The result of this evaluation led to the development of this new training curriculum based on Land Trust Standards and Practices.

Responding to an Identified Need

With this new curriculum, Land Trust Alliance is responding to land trust requests for an intentional and coordinated training series to help all land trusts implement Land Trust Standards and Practices.

“These courses look great – they cover all of the issues land trusts have been wrestling with in the last few years.”

John Hoffnagle, Land Trust of Napa County (CA)

Interest in this type of training program has increased as land trusts prepare for a new voluntary land trust accreditation program that will be fully operational in 2008.

The new curriculum will focus first on the indicator practices - those practices from Land Trust Standards and Practices that indicate a land trust is operating in an ethical, legal and technically sound manner.

Participation in the training curriculum and the accreditation program will help land trusts ensure the long-term protection of land in the public interest.

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