Workshop Tracks

List of Workshop Tracks

The descriptions are for guidance only and are not meant to limit other great ideas or suggestions for sessions.

Biodiversity: conservation of biodiversity and ecosystems, including tools to identify and strategies to manage: climate change

Cities, Culture and History: topics of interest to urban land trusts, community gardens, community land trusts, historic preservation and cultural trusts

Connecting Land and People: community building, community values, diversity, using story and photography

Conservation Easement Stewardship: stewardship of conservation easements, monitoring, landowner relations, record keeping and baseline documentation

Conservation Finance: where and how to get funding for deals, strategies for financing projects using public and/or private sources

Conservation through Planning: Tools, practices and success stories of private conservation objectives achieved through partnerships and participation in municipal, regional, county or watershed-level planning and resource protection efforts.

Emerging Issues: topics that address cutting edge issues (Reserved for topics that cannot be addressed in another track)

Fundraising, Membership and Outreach: building strong organizations, fundraising, marketing communications

Land Protection: acquisition, due diligence, drafting conservation easements

Legal Issues: issues that impact fee land and conservation easements, such as condemnation, amendments and enforcement and defense

Managing Land Resources: stewardship of fee lands, land management planning, restoration, managing public preserves and climate change

Organizational Management and Governance: responsible governance, organizational development, strategic planning.  (Of special interest to board members and/or all-volunteer land trusts)

Public Policy: federal, state and local policy issues, training on advocacy, bond initiatives

Technology for Conservation: Effectively using GIS, online decision support tools, social networking strategies: and online collaboration. (Internet access available for this track for a limited number of workshops)

Wetlands, Coasts and Watersheds: variety of topics and strategies focused on the protection of land and water resources, watershed management, coastal initiatives and climate change

Working Lands: strategies and approaches to conservation of working landscapes including farms, ranches and forest