General Interest

Buy Now!	The Board Member's Guide to Strategic Planning: A Practical Approach Author: Fisher Howe, 1997 Org Member price: $34.00 \| Regular price: $37.40 Howe's practical, no-nonsense approach demystifies the often intimidating planning process, showing why it is essential and providing detailed instructions for successful execution.
Buy Now!	Cities in the Wilderness: A New Vision of Land Use in America Author: Bruce Babbitt, 2005 Org Member price: $17.50 \| Regular price: $22.00 In this newly anticipated book, Secretary of the Interior and Governor of Arizona Bruce Babbitt brings fresh thought to how we can build a future we want to live in via a national vision of land use.
Buy Now!	The Collaboration Handbook Author: Michael Winer and Karen Ray, 1994 Org Member price: $37.95 \| Regular price: $45.54 This is your complete guide to putting together a collaboration that gets results! You'll see how to get a collaboration going, define the results you're after, determine everyone's roles, create an action plan, and evaluate the results.
Buy Now!	Conservancy: The Land Trust Movement in America Author: Richard Brewer, 2003 Org Member price: $20.00 \| Regular price: $23.50 Written for land trust members, volunteers and supporters, this is the first comprehensive treatment of land trusts that combines a historical overview of the movement with more specific information on the different kinds of land trusts.
Buy Now!	Conservation Options Brochure Author: Land Trust Alliance, 2008 (Packs of 25) Org Member price: $10.00 \| Regular price: $12.50 Brand New for 2008! Conservation Options presents an overview of conservation methods that private landowners and land trusts can use to work together to conserve land for natural, recreational, scenic, historical, and productive value. It’s ideal for handing out to landowners! The newly redesigned handout replaces Protecting Your Land with a Conservation Easement and Conservation Options for Private Landowners.
Buy Now!	Conservation Options: A Landowner's Guide Author: Land Trust Alliance, 2003 Org Member price: $7.00 \| Regular price: $8.50 No other publication offers so much information about how to conserve open spaces! Updated in 2003 to reflect the most current tax law, with slot for a business card, pocket for your land trust brochure, and a place on the back to affix your land trust logo.
Buy Now!	Cost of Community Services Studies: Making the Case for Land Conservation Author: Julia Freedgood with Editors Lori Tanner, Carl Mailler, Andy Andrews, Melissa Adams, 2002 Org Member price: $14.50 \| Regular price: $16.95 Details more than 80 cost of community services studies conducted by the American Farmland Trust, showing that privately owned farms, forest and ranchlands generate more in local revenues than they require in services.
Buy Now!	Land Trust Geography Author: Charles Convis, 2001 Org Member price: $4.95 \| Regular price: $4.95 Magazine format presenting case studies and information from approximately a dozen land trusts that have used GIS (geographic information system) hardware, software and data to make critical decisions based on the local landscape.
Buy Now!	Green Infrastructure: Linking Landscapes & Communities Author: Mark Benedict and Edward McMahon, 2005 Org Member price: $35.00 \| Regular price: $43.75 Those engaged in land conservation and management increasingly have come to envision and make use of a process that connects social environmental, and economic health: Green Infrastructure.
Buy Now!	Living Green: Conservation Easements (DVD) Author: Mark Hostetler, 2005 Org Member price: $11.00 \| Regular price: $13.75 Viewers learn about how conservation easements work and how a farmer/landowner can establish them on his or her property. The episode features farmers who have partnered with the Conservation Trust of Florida and the Red Hills Conservation Program to establish conservation easements.
Buy Now!	Nonprofit Mergers Workbook Part 1: The Leader's Guide to Cosidering Negotiating and Executing a Merger Author: David LaPlana, 2000 Org Member price: $34.95 \| Regular price: $41.94 Here's everything you've wanted (and should) know about nonprofit mergers. This practical guide walks you through the entire merger process from assessing your reasons and readiness, to finding a partner, negotiating the deal, and completing the merger.
Buy Now!	Nonprofit Mergers Workbook Part 2: Unifying the Organization after a Merger Author: David LaPlana, 2004 Org Member price: $44.95 \| Regular price: $53.94 Deciding to merge is the first step in a long process. This book takes you the rest of the way-bringing together people, programs, processes, and systems from two (or more) organizations into a single, unified whole.
Buy Now!	Portraits of Preservation Author: David Strunk, 2007 Org Member price: $35.00 \| Regular price: $35.00 Gorgeous photos and compelling stories in this coffee table book illustrate the land, the history and the people behind the preservation of historic ranches protected from development in the mountains west of Denver.
Buy Now!	Protecting the Land: Conservation Easements Past, Present, and Future Author: Gustanski, Julie and Squires, Roderick (Ed.s), 2001 Organizational Member price: $45.00 \| Regular price: $56.00 An excellent reference source with a comprehensive collection of articles on the background, scope and use of conservation easements from a national geographic perspective. Examines innovative ways in which conservation easements have been used around the country. With a foreword by past LTA president Jean Hocker.
Buy Now!	Saving the Ranch: Conservation Easement Design in the American West Author: Anthony Anella and John B. Wright, 2004 Org Member price: $30.00 \| Regular price: $37.50 A concise and readable guide to conservation easements for ranchers, conservationists, and developers concerned with protecting the natural and scenic values of ranch lands in the western United States.
Buy Now!	Starting a Land Trust Author: Land Trust Alliance, 2005 Org Member price: $35.00 \| Regular price: $45.00 Practical handbook with information about how to sustain an organization. Includes sample documents, a sample budget and loads of information and straightforward advice about fundraising, grants, government assistance and IRS forms..
Buy Now!	The Land That Could Be Author: William Shutkin, 2001 Org Member price: $39.00 \| Regular price: $39.00 In this book, environmentalist and lawyer William Shutkin describes a new kind of environmental and social activism spreading across the nation, one that joins the pursuit of environmental quality with that of civic health and sustainable local economies. In the face of challenges posed by often corrosive market forces and widespread social disaffection, this civic environmentalism is creating nothing less than a new public discourse and dynamic social vision grounded in environmental action.
Buy Now!	This Common Ground: Seasons on an Organic Farm Author: Scott Chaskey, 2005 Org Member price: $10.00 \| Regular price: $12.50 As the former head of the organic Quail Hill Farm on Long Island's South Fork, Chaskey gives an energetic account of "the education of a gardener become farmer, representing a committed community" as well as "the challenges faced by all small farms, enlivened by a wind from the sea."