My message is simple: Recognize the place, the community, where you belong — then do all you can to protect all its members, human and otherwise.

I am here representing an ancient culture of conservation, balance and the interconnectedness of all things.

Rally is always a busy time for me and the land conservation community, but this year it was even more so. Because it came just days after the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's special report.

I was sent kicking and screaming this year to the National Audubon Society’s Educators Week on Hog Island in Maine. And despite myself, it was the best thing that could have happened to me.

The Land Trust Alliance is bestowing multiple awards this week during its annual conference in Pittsburgh.

The Land Trust Alliance will today bestow on land conservation champion Michael Whitfield the distinguished Kingsbury Browne Conservation Leadership Award.

The Land Trust Alliance is convening this week in Pittsburgh the nation's largest gathering of land conservation leaders.

The Land Trust Alliance is celebrating this week its long partnership with the United States Department of Agriculture’s Natural Resources Conservation Service.

The protection of a working ranch in California by the accredited Eastern Sierra Land Trust not only helped to save the family’s heritage, it will help limit greenhouse gas emissions.

Congress must act now. Every day we lack a new Farm Bill is another day we stand to lose another farm or ranch.