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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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One Alliance, One Community

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

The Land Trust Alliance works with the land trust community in countless ways, demonstrating how we are all stronger together.

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Breaking from traditional gender roles, interns of the accredited Alachua Conservation Trust’s Women in the Woods program learn crucial land management skills/Photo courtesy of Alachua Conservation Trust

Addressing Gender Bias in Conservation Organizations

Source: 
Saving Land magazine, Fall 2018
Author: 
Elisabeth Ptak

Women in conservation experience gender bias just as women in other fields do. What does it look like, and what can we do about it?

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Building Deep and Wide Support for Land Conservation

Source: 
Saving Land magazine, Summer 2018
Author: 
Elizabeth Ward

The first conservation goal of the Land Trust Alliance’s new strategic plan is to “elevate land conservation as a priority nationwide.” To do this, we will “design and laun

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