Winter 2012
Saving Land Winter 2012
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Cover Story
Capturing Hearts and Minds | By Elisabeth Ptak
In its early years, the land trust movement focused on growth. Now that focus is shifting to keeping what has been saved saved for all time. The key is relevancy.
Features
Seeing the Forest for the Trees (and the Community) | By Kelly Saxton
There are as many types of community forests as there are communities. Land trusts can become important partners in the mix, as demonstrated by three examples.
The Highlands-Cashiers Land Trust in North Carolina tells the history of the areas it protects, as well as its own history, in a coffee table book called First Creation.
Tales of Records, Redundancy and Renewal | By Kendall Slee
In part two of our series on recordkeeping,learn why the topic is such an important one (hint: remember the disaster-laden summer of 2011?).
Departments
Our Great Strength
New rule on volunteer accounting; Landslide honors land trusters; year-end fundraising advice
Engaging the whole community in conservation decisions; the supercommittee meets; Farm Bill update and more
Homeland security redefined
Helpful advice for when a land trust is ready to hire staff; Board Member Challenge profile and logos
As the pool of accredited land trusts grows, so should marketing efforts to the public
Fundraising advice from your peers in the land conservation movement
National Land Trust Census summary; new partnership to save our coasts; a handy website on websites
Rally 2011; new board members share their stories
Out of the ashes springs hope
Congratulations to the land conservation groups around the country for achieving accreditation
Extra! Extra! Read extended pieces from the latest Saving Land
Seeing the Forest for the Trees (and the Community)
Read two reports related to community forests:
- A Community Investment Strategy – Community Forests, published by the Community Forest Collaborative
- The Status of Community-Based Forestry in the United States: A Report to the U.S. Endowment for Forestry and Communities, written by the Community Forest Consortium.
Tales of Records, Redundancy and Renewal
Monadnock Conservancy in New Hampshire has offered to share its stewardship recordkeeping policy and culling guidelines to help other land trusts that are considering an overhaul of their recordkeeping system:
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