Because everyone needs a good advocate.

Advocacy Matters, LLC founder, Gwendolyn Lacy, principal attorney, consultant, and mediator, works with private landowners, regional, local, and national land conservancies, as well as governmental agencies and environmental organizations to actively preserve those special places where life-long memories and legacies are forged. Client Services, include drafting and/or review of conservation easements, land acquisitions, historic preservation, mediation of easement violations, legislative advocacy, water rights, eminent domain, estate planning, and non-profit capacity building.

Serving the Mid-Atlantic and Southwest Regions of the U.S.

American Timberlands Company, is a vertically integrated holistic land investment management firm organized for the purpose of originating and managing forestland investments with diverse attributes and value-adding opportunities. ATC’s clients, partners, and investors recognize that, with the right management expertise, low risk land investments can yield higher returns than ordinary timberland investments.

Ann Ruzow Holland provides:

• Customized, in-depth, and hands-on support to individual boards and networks to focus on what really matters.
• Practical and professional guidance, trouble-shooting, and intervention services to boards and staff during changing times.
• Assistance to evaluate and assess mission-driven progress, productivity, and outcomes using evidence-based methods.
• Advice on ways to optimize organizational resources, including funding.
• Frameworks for system-wide partnerships with networked organizations or groups of organizations in a targeted community or grantee network.

Services include:

• Decision-making Processes and Protocols.
• Regional Planning.
• Project Management and Implementation.
• Troubleshooting, Intervention, & Realignments
• Change Management and Mentoring
• Grant writing and Grants Management for all funding sectors.
• Remote and field-based multi-disciplinary, quantitative and qualitative research, and report writing.
• Meeting Facilitation, conflict resolution, and participatory stakeholder engagement.
• Natural Resource Planning,
• Organizational planning and development, including Accreditation, strategic planning, grant writing & management, intervention, and change management.
• Planning for people, places, and spaces. Collaborative place-based environmental planning and economic development work involving land use planning, sustainable economic, and community development at the municipal and regional scales.

Company registered with SAM.GOV and NYS Business Registry and NYS WBE

We specialize in appraising properties throughout the Southeastern U.S. for conservation, environmentally sensitive lands and those with historical significance. Types of appraisals and appraisal reviews we perform are for conservation and historic easements, charitable contributions of real estate and personal property, bargain sales, mitigation banks, federal and state land acquisition (Yellowbook) and those used for estate planning that may involve federal tax benefits to the property owner. We also offer conservation planning, baseline documentation report for conservation, historic and agricultural land easements, grant development and administration.

Our attorneys specialize in environmental and land law and work to support a sustainable New Hampshire. We represent land trusts, landowners and others. We design legal solutions consistent with both private property rights and sustainable stewardship of our land and natural resources.

Since its inception in 1995, BenchMark Advisors has focused on providing services to the design and development communities in three areas of expertise: Conservation Strategies, Development Management and Design Management. Working with landowners, developers and consultants, BenchMark incorporates an environmentally sensitive approach to a wide variety of development and design applications.

Braun & Gresham provides legal services to owners of rural land — advocating for their interests in estate planning, land conservation, real estate investment and property taxes; and defending them from condemnation, groundwater depletion, surface water pollution or infrastructure routing. Braun & Gresham believes that its conservation counsel is more effective if it stays focused on representing landowners rather than trying to represent land trusts and landowners.

Carla Lee Lewis is a private consultant based in northwestern New Jersey. Carla provides business and stewardship consulting services to land trusts, including organizational assessments, accreditation preparation, baseline documentation, property monitoring, and land management plans. Carla is the author of the Land Trust Alliance’s 2014 publication "Jump in, the Water’s Fine! Collaboration Inspiration for All-Volunteer Land Trusts."

I focus my practice on conservation easements and regularly provide guidance to property owners and land trusts regarding the structuring, negotiating, and closing of conservation transactions. I have particular experience representing landowners with respect to the myriad legal issues arising for rural land holdings and I also assist nonprofit clients with the purchase, sale, and leasing of property, as well as with exempt organization issues.

Judy Anderson of Community Consultants has worked in the land trust sector for over 30 years. She currently assists nonprofit organizations on practical strategic conservation initiatives incorporating local communities, climate change, governance, communications and marking, and community-based fundraising strategies.

Judy offers a free bi-monthly newsletter related to climate change, conservation and land trusts taking action to slow down climate. Judy also provides coaching on inclusive conservation, easement drafting and stewardship, and building greater community relevance to ensure land trusts withstand the test of time.

Judy coaches remotely as well as proving in-person trainings, workshops, and discussions.

The Conservation Consulting Group (CCG) is a collective of highly experienced professionals who are passionate about land conservation and dedicated to building the capacity and advancing the mission of nonprofit environmental and conservation organizations throughout the United States. Specialties include strategic planning, organizational assessment and improvement, Board development, meeting facilitation, coaching and mentoring, training and education. We assist organizations with planning and developing initiatives that engage, invigorate, and mobilize stakeholders and constituencies. We offer assessments and specific recommendations based on best practices to empower staffs and Boards. We deliver so our clients can deliver — results second to none.

Conservation Impact and Nonprofit Impact are client-centered practices of our mission-driven company dedicated to helping organizations become more impactful, successful, and sustainable.

Conservation Land Group (CLG) specializes in structuring and completing conservation real estate transactions, including conservation easements, on behalf of private landowners, non-profit land trusts and foundations, mitigation purchasers, and public agencies.

Conservation Law, P.C. is a law firm devoted to protecting working landscapes and environmentally significant lands in Colorado and the Rocky Mountain West through the use of perpetual conservation easements.

Danosky & Associates is an action-oriented, results-driven consulting firm that helps non-profit organizations build the capacity to move their strategic vision forward with a solid foundation and an army of support behind them. Our approach draws on five key principles that can work as an integrated solution or be used independently to address specific concerns: Board Energy, Philanthropic Enrichment, Organizational Effectiveness & Learning, Community Engagement and Financial Empowerment.

David Allen at Development for Conservation assists conservation organizations raising money from individual donors by improving renewal, cultivation, and major gift development systems. David brings 25 years of experience to the practice, including 13 with The Nature Conservancy. With a focus on implementation and follow-through, he has worked with dozens of land trusts across the country on fundraising audits and plans, board training, campaigns, and coaching. “You can raise more money for your land trust. I can help."

Dinse, P.C., one of the oldest and largest law firms in Vermont, has extensive experience representing both land conservation organizations and landowners with complex real estate, land use, and other mission-related transactions.

Draper Law PLLC is a solo law firm focused on all aspects of land conservation — from serving as transactional counsel for the purchase, sale and donation of properties and conservation easements, to providing strategic guidance on the stewardship, management and enforcement of conservation easements. Adam Draper has over 15 years of attorney experience, with the past 10 years as in-house counsel at two land conservation organizations before striking out on his own in December 2018. In partnership with private landowners, land trusts, tribal governments, corporations and federal, state and local government officials, Adam has closed more than 70 transactions conserving 7,000+ acres of working, habitat and recreation/open space lands worth over $30 million. Adam is a sought-after public speaker and industry expert on land conservation, and has presented several sessions at the Land Trust Alliance’s annual Rally.

Founded in 1965, with offices in Portland, Maine, and Portsmouth and Manchester, New Hampshire, Drummond Woodsum is known as a premier New England law firm with a national and international reach. Our attorneys and consultants provide a full spectrum of legal and consulting services for our clients throughout the United States. Our clients range from some of the nation's largest corporations to small start-up companies, financial institutions, Indian nations and tribal enterprises, municipalities, school districts, and individuals. No matter the size of the client, we take great pride in delivering superior legal and consulting services in a timely and cost-efficient manner. Learn more about Drummond Woodsum's areas of expertise.

With offices in Pennsylvania, Florida, and Oregon and America's largest portfolio of compliance forest offset projects from Maine to Alaska, we offer landowners a single-source solution for creating and monetizing their forest carbon assets. Combining unparalleled project development experience with extensive carbon market knowledge, our in-house team offers the most comprehensive forest carbon project development and commercialization service in the United States.

Public officials and corporate executives with high profile public and private projects that must get planned and completed, call Kaplan Kirsch & Rockwell. Whether the project is a public project, has a nexus with a government entity, or merely requires deep knowledge of how government works, our attorneys are sought after — because we’ve seen it and done it before.

Representing organizations and landowners in all phases of conservation real estate transactions, including land and conservation easement sales and donations, conservation easement amendments, and exchanges. Conservation Advisors LLC secures public and private conservation capital, and analyzes and implements conservation and business strategies.

Kimberly Seese is the digital communications manager at the Land Trust Alliance.

Our firm provides exceptional legal counsel to individuals and clients throughout widely diversified industries on a local, regional, and national level — we counsel with expertise, insight, responsiveness and sensitivity to our client’s goals and needs.