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Rally offers 100+ content rich workshops presented by the top conservation leaders in the country.

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Workshop Topic Tracks

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

Accreditation and Insurance: 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.

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.

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