Leadership in Land Conservation

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.

Mission:
To save the places people love by strengthening land conservation across America.

To fulfill our mission, the Land Trust Alliance has worked for more than 25 years with the national conservation community - comprised of 1.5 million dedicated land conservation professionals, volunteers and supporters - to quickly, effectively and permanently save our most valued natural resource across America.

Vision:

The Land Trust Alliance believes that if we focus our combined efforts to increase the pace, quality and permanence of conservation, we can turn the tide and ultimately change the way the land development takes place in 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

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