Winter 2011
Saving Land Winter 2011
Full Edition (7.84 MB)
Cover Story
Managing Mergers | by Jennifer Anderson
When land trusts explore merging to increase their capacity, raise the level of professionalism and help their bottom lines, they need to manage the process carefully to ensure success.
Features
Better Together: Land Trusts Win by Collaborating | Edith Pepper Goltra
Collaborations among land trusts take many forms, but whatever the configuration, the benefits include information sharing, a broadened reach, stronger ties to the community and better success meeting conservation goals.
Land We Love: A Stark Beauty | Photographed By Dennie Eagleson
For five generations the same family has run Folger Howell Farm in Ohio. Tecumseh Land Trust has protected the farm as an exemplary blend of working land, habitat, forest and agritourism.
Conservation Defense and Enforcement in the Land Trust Community | By Dr. Adena Rissman
The results of a 2009 academic study on conservation defense indicate that land trust legal defense and enforcement challenges are common, varied and increasing. So what are we going to do about it?
Departments
A pivotal time in history
Defense insurance update, grants for accredited land trusts in two regions, heritage breeds help farmers, partnering with conservation districts
End-of-year call to action, words of encouragement from the Department of Interior
Numbers and statistics show land trust successes, but what about the stories behind the work? Land Trust Alliance staffer Andy Weaver tells us what he learned on his sabbatical.
Strategies for resolving conflicts, board challenge update
What they wish they had known—three land trusts tell it like it is
Two women’s odyssey across America to raise money for their local land trust
RallyNet, great map ideas, a new guide to the Farm Bill written for land trusts
Rally 2010 in review
Don’t let the moment pass
Congratulations to the land conservation groups around the country for achieving accreditation
Extra! Extra! Read an extended piece from the latest Saving Land
Board Matters (continued) | Interview with Richard Male
Strategies for resolving conflicts
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