Workshops
List of Workshop Tracks
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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
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