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Follow hot topics in conservation. Read the latest articles from the Alliance’s magazine, Saving Land, or our newsletter for board members, Field Guide — plus other articles by the Alliance and our partners. You can also access the latest findings on conservation trends and issues through our research reports.

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Engaging People with Disabilities to Improve Access to the Health Benefits of Nature Workshop

Source: 
Rally 2020 Workshop Recording
Author: 
Ray Bloomer, Peter Doehring, Bonnie Lewkowicz, Karena Mahung, MaryKay O’Donnell

This is a recording of a session held at Rally 2020.

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Author Dean Fedde (right) and his brother Wayne on the farm they protected with a conservation easement. The Nebraska farmers vowed to save their family farmland and worked with Nebraska Land Trust to permanently protect it in 2010.

A tale of two farms: The power of conservation easements

Source: 
Saving Land magazine, Summer 2021
Author: 
Dean Fedde

I am a lifelong Nebraskan with deeply planted roots in southwest Sarpy County. For nearly a century, my family has farmed in the Lower Platte Valley, an area rich with some of our state’s most fertile soils. In Nebraska’s fastest growing county, there is now an urgency to protect the historic farmsteads, rolling fields of grain and the diverse habitat needed to sustain the abundant wildlife of the region. In these rapidly changing times, agriculture is being squeezed out and farms are vanishing at an alarming rate. Unfortunately, my family has suffered that reality.

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Photo by DJ Glisson, II / Firefly Imageworks

Working lands, leadership and community: Three new board members share Alliance values

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Saving Land magazine, Summer 2021
Author: 
Darci Palmquist

For native Texan Blair Calvert Fitzsimon

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Advocating in the virtual world

Source: 
Saving Land magazine, Summer 2021
Author: 
Morgan Zenter and Sierra Moen

Advocating for conservation policies from the comfort of one’s home can sometimes present challenges. For one, it can be hard to attend a meeting with a high-ranking official while family members — including furry companions — vie for attention. However, Land Trust Alliance members once again demonstrated record-setting engagement, perseverance and flexibility during the 10th annual Land Trust Alliance Advocacy Days, held virtually April 19-22.

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Give new board members a good start

Source: 
Saving Land magazine, Summer 2021
Author: 
Jim Wyerman

Board members are crucial to land trusts because they hold a fiduciary duty to implement the mission, ensure the organization’s survival and protect conserved land forever.

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Managing leadership transitions with succession plans

Source: 
Saving Land magazine, Winter 2018
Author: 
Heather Yandow and Christina Soto

The phone rings in the middle of the night with the news that your longtime executive director has been in an accident.

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The health of our waters: Protecting the Great Lakes Basin

Source: 
Saving Land magazine, Spring 2021
Author: 
Laura Eklov

Land trusts across the country are working diligently and creatively to protect water quality, quantity and equitable water access every day. Land trusts working in the Great Lakes basin are no exception, helping to protect one of the largest sources of fresh water on Earth. Covering 21% of the world’s surface fresh water, there’s a lot at stake.

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