As the world continues to react to coronavirus, many organizations, including the Land Trust Alliance, have transitioned employees to work from home. For me, the prospect of teleworking was exciting, but after just a few days I can say: This was not the dream I thought it would be.

As editor of Saving Land, I receive a lot of communications from land trusts — stories, blogs, enewsletters, event announcements — and more. But this message from Wallkill Valley Land Trust in New Paltz, New York, came at exactly the right time with exactly the right message.

Over the past weeks, all of us in the land trust community have scrambled to respond appropriately to the coronavirus pandemic. While we all have crisis plans for our organizations, few of us anticipated the unprecedented situation like the one in which we find ourselves.

As the Land Trust Alliance weighs our response to the coronavirus crisis, one thing has remained at the forefront of all of our thinking: We must prioritize the health and wellbeing of our land trust members, our staff and their families.

We're on the cusp of Congress acting to fully fund both the Land and Water Conservation Fund and Restore America's Parks Act! But we need your help to get this across the finish line.

One of the nice things about Legos is they let you build a house anywhere you want. Conservation easements, however, do not.

At the start of this new decade, I thought it would be fitting to publish my call to action to the land trust community to markedly increase the rate of land conservation from 1 million acres a year now to at least 10 million acres a year by 2030.

Birds connect us to wild spaces and our natural world. They help to pollinate plants, disperse seeds and are bioindicators of ecosystem health. Birds bring people together and give them joy. But now, birds need our help.