Each summer, the accredited Douglas Land Conservancy in Colorado gathers artists from across the country for an exceptional opportunity, a week of painting conserved public and private lands.
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Photo by Douglas Land Conservancy volunteer, Tom Netwal
If you have a story tell, the Land Is My... video contest is a golden opportunity to share it nationally. Imagine if everyone created snapshots of the true value of nature to our lives — how many hearts and minds could we touch?
Do you ever stop and think about your surroundings when you are walking in nature? At the Openlands Lakeshore Preserve, art gives a voice to the natural landscape that may go unnoticed otherwise.
Our communities have a lot to do with how healthy or unhealthy we are, according to a recent report by the National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine.
You might not know its name, but the Uniform Conservation Easement Act (UCEA) benefits the land conservation work Land Trust Alliance members do every day.
"If you ask your community to invest in you, you need to invest in your community." That's the motto of the Northwest Arkansas Land Trust, which is giving back through its free outdoor art classes.
Imagine summer as a kid on the islands in Lake Champlain. Freedom from school, biking through lush green farms and ripening orchards and the lake water beckoning — but for too many children in Vermont, summer is a time of hunger.
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Adam Farris, Christine Bourque and their two daughters. / Photo courtesy of the family
For decades, land trusts across the West have been collaborating with private landowners and public partners to conserve habitat for the sage-grouse — and it's been a big success!
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Volunteers mark a pasture fence to reduce sage-grouse fence-strikes in a Regional Conservation Partnership Program project area on a preserve owned by Eastern Sierra Land Trust. The simple fence tags reduce sage-grouse mortality by 80 percent. / Photo by Susanna Danner