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Zenda Farms in New York has benefited from the Farm Bill in the past through the Wildlife Habitat Incentives and Environmental Quality Incentives programs/Thousand Islands Land Trust (accredited)

The Farm Bill: Celebrating Passage of a Key Land Conservation Resource

Source: 
Saving Land magazine, Spring 2019
Author: 
Madeline Bodin

The Land Trust Alliance made reauthorization of the Farm Bill one of its top policy priorities, forming a powerful — and effective — coalition to speak as one for the needs of land trusts.

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The Impact of Accreditation

Source: 
Saving Land magazine, Winter 2019
Author: 
Christina Soto

A new study finds that in 10 years the accreditation program has had a substantial positive impact on conservation in the United States.

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Conserving Land, Connecting Communities

Source: 
Land Trust Alliance
Author: 
Meme Hanley

Making a Difference When I asked New York land trusts, “In 50 words or less, tell me how you’re changing lives,” they delivered.

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Enhancing Natural Protections Against Rising Waters

Source: 
Saving Land magazine, Winter 2019
Author: 
Marina Schauffler

Land trusts are working to protect the wetlands and vegetated floodplains that temper the effects from stronger storms caused by climate change.

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Wetlands on the New Jersey side of Delaware Bay, part of the Delaware River Watershed Initiative, photographed at 6,000 feet by LightHawk, whose volunteer pilots fly to protect land, water and wildlife across America/Photo by LightHawk

Water Takes Center Stage

Source: 
Saving Land magazine, Winter 2019
Author: 
Darci Palmquist

So many of us take clean, safe drinking water for granted, but recent tragedies such as in Flint, Michigan, should make us think twice. Land trusts can and do play a major role in protecting the land and watersheds that provide our drinking water.

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Be Fearless

Source: 
Saving Land magazine, Winter 2019
Author: 
Andrew Bowman

The following is Andrew Bowman’s speech presented on October 11 at Rally 2018.

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