This week, Congress sent President Trump the finalized Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, a bill that makes sweeping changes to the U.S. tax code. As I've reported to you before, these changes are likely to affect charitable organizations including land trusts.

Getting legislation passed on Capitol Hill is no easy task. It takes many people — all working together — to build momentum for even the simplest bills.

As 2017 draws to a close, give yourself the gift of learning with our year-end book sale.

Kris Krouse of the accredited Shirley Heinze Land Trust in Indiana tells us how investing in the Land Trust Alliance as a partner and ally can strengthen all facets of your land trust. 

Terri Lane of the accredited Northwest Arkansas Land Trust tells us a phone call six years ago from the regional Land Trust Alliance staff set the tone and trajectory of her rapidly growing land trust.

Cheryl Fox of the accredited Summit Land Conservancy in Utah tells us how the Land Trust Alliance makes advocating on behalf of land conservation on Capitol Hill so easy, and patriotically inspiring.

Don Gerber of the accredited Lyme Land Conservation Trust in Connecticut tells us why he paid it forward (with a $60,000 check!) to the Land Trust Alliance to support its legal defense services. 

On a single evening each year the Mount Diablo beacon is lit at sunset and shines all night. On Dec. 7, the tribute honors the lives that were lost and the surviving veterans of Pearl Harbor.

I believed more than 35 years ago that we are stronger together, and that has never been truer than it is today.

When perpetual land protection is your goal, long-time horizons need to be one of your most important temporal scales.