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Just added! B23: Strategic Planning for Boards
B12: Leadership Skills for Land Trusts - CANCELLED
Workshop Topic Tracks
The descriptions are for guidance only and are not meant to limit other great ideas or suggestions for sessions.
Accreditation: Explore all of the elements of Accreditation and have your land trust questions answered.
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: Integrating community building, community values, and 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/Hot Topics: Topics that address cutting edge issues (Reserved for topics that cannot be addressed in another track).
Fundraising, Membership and Outreach: Building strong organizations, fundraising, and marketing communications including how to incorporate social networking strategies (See Technology).
Governance/Organizational Management: Responsible governance, organizational development, strategic planning (Of special interest to board members and/or all-volunteer land trusts).
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 for public access on preserves and climate change.
Public Policy: Federal, state and local policy issues, training on advocacy and bond initiatives.
Technology for Conservation: Effectively using GIS, online decision-support tools, social networking strategies, and online collaboration (Internet access may not be available for this track. We will confirm prior to Rally; be prepared to present without internet if necessary).
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 forests.
