The Land Trust Alliance offers a definitive collection of land conservation books for your land trust library. Written by the best instructors and presenters in the land conservation community, these books provide the current, authoritative and comprehensive information you need to keep your land trust at peak operations.
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New Publications from the Land Trust Alliance
 Strategic Conservation Planning
Author: Ole Amundsen, III
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Chart Your Land Trust’s Future by Proactively Planning and Prioritizing Your Resources
According to the 2010 National Land Trust Census, land trusts that had strategic conservation plans protected twice as much land as land trusts without plans. Strategic Conservation Planning will help you visualize a future for your community and chart a course to realize that vision. Because your actions today will determine the parks, working farms, forests and scenic landscapes your children and grandchildren will enjoy, it pays to be careful in how you use your resources to ensure you save the right land. This publication provides you with the process and tools to identify, prioritize, pursue and protect the land that will most effectively and efficiently achieve your conservation mission.
What land conservationists are saying:
“The Strategic Conservation Planning guide is a thorough how to manual that explains the big-picture reasons for engaging in strategic planning, as well as giving step-by-step instructions with plenty of sample documents and case studies. This book is an invaluable resource, as our now dog-eared copy can attest.”
 Documenting and Protecting Biodiversity on Land Trust Projects
Author: Christopher R. Wilson
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This user-friendly guide bridges the gap between conservation biology and its application to typical land trust projects. Intended for land trusts, landowners, biologists, planers, and students, the handbook explains biodiversity and how it's conserved, what types of biological information are most useful, and how to gather such information through reviews of freely-available data sources and on-the-ground biological inventories. The book also explains how to apply biological information to standard land protection tasks, such as project selection, fundraising, drafting conservation easement language, compiling baseline documentation, writing management plans, and how the information helps land trust projects conform to IRS Treasury regulations and Land Trust Standards and Practices.
“This book falls into that rare category of ‘necessary.’ For people concerned about preserving the fabric of this earth in a time of tempestuous change, Chris Wilson has provided a mandatory manual. It will do much good in the world.”
BILL MCKIBBEN, Author of The End of Nature and Deep Economy
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A 20% discount is offered to board, staff and volunteers of Alliance member land trusts and organizational partners, and to individual members at the $250 level and above. Bulk discounts are available on select titles to member land trusts purchasing 10 or more copies.
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Saving Land
Our 40-page quarterly magazine, Saving Land, offers up-to-date stories on the latest issues, innovations and trends in land conservation. New features include sections specifically addressing board member issues, fundraising and resources for land trusts. Become a Land Trust Alliance member and receive Saving Land in your mailbox! To order back issues in limited quantities, email pubs@lta.org.
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Our Annual Report
Thirty years ago, land trusts joined forces to found the Land Trust Alliance. We’ve come a long way since 1982. America’s 1,700 land trusts now have 12,000 staff, 15,000 board members and 5 million members from every walk of life. Together, we have protected more than 47 million acres. In our 2011 Annual Report (PDF, 8.1KB), we celebrate the journey of our conservation successes by sharing stories from our founding land trusts.
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