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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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Case Study: Colorado Open Lands

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An Introduction to Mergers for Land Trusts
Author: 
Land Trust Alliance

Two Colorado land trusts merged to ensure perpetuity, solve financial challenges, deepen public trust and create greater impact. Lesson learned: Take a systematic, phased approach to a merger.

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Mergers: If You’re Ready, Here’s Some Help

Source: 
Saving Land magazine, Spring 2018
Author: 
Christina Soto

Mergers have become more prevalent within the land trust community in recent years. A new publication from the Land Trust Alliance offers extensive guidance and real case studies.

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Marin Agricultural Land Trust (accredited) Stewardship Manager Jim Jensen (right) and former Stewardship Manager Patricia Hickey (left) visit the ranch of a local producer to assess indicators of rangeland health as part of the carbon farm and conservation planning process/Photo by Michael Woolsey

Looking to the Land to Mitigate Climate Change

Source: 
Saving Land magazine, Spring 2018
Author: 
Marina Schauffler

When land trusts advance natural climate solutions, they not only mitigate climate change, they also provide a wealth of ecological and economic benefits.

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Estes Valley Land Trust staff, board and volunteers assist a landowner with flood recovery on a conservation easement near Drake, Colorado. Board member Curt Gleaves is second from right/Photo courtesy of Estes Valley Land Trust

Planning for the Unthinkable: People, Processes and Properties

Source: 
Saving Land magazine, Spring 2018
Author: 
Madeline Bodin

Land trusts across the country that have weathered disasters reveal that it’s helpful to group your disaster plan into three priorities: people, processes and properties.

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Employees of Para la Naturaleza begin restoration work in the community of Marueño in Puerto Rico after the devastation of Hurricane Maria/Photo by Jose R. Madera

Standing Together

Source: 
Saving Land magazine, Spring 2018
Author: 
Edith Pepper Goltra

How land trusts and their communities relied on each other to come through the disasters of 2017

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Elin Parker Ganschow, owner of Music Meadows Ranch/Photo by Kate Spinelli/San Isabel Land Protection Trust (accredited)

A Good Incentive to Save Land

Source: 
Saving Land magazine, Winter 2018
Author: 
Edith Pepper Goltra

Two years after succeeding after succeeding in getting the enhanced tax incentive for conservation easement donations passed with the help of many partners, the Land Trust Alliance features stories from land trusts and landowners showing how it’s working.

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