Organization
Land Trust Alliance
The national association of US land trusts — accrediting body, federal-policy advocate, training and standards organization for the ~1,000 member land trusts that have protected over 60 million acres of US land under conservation easement or fee ownership. The trade-association layer of the land-protection movement and one of its load-bearing institutions.
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What they do
The Land Trust Alliance serves the network of about 1,000 US land trusts — local, regional, and national organizations that protect land via [[conservation-easement|conservation easement]], fee ownership, or other tools. The Alliance’s core functions: accreditation (the LTA Accreditation Commission has accredited several hundred land trusts to a published Standards & Practices benchmark), federal-policy advocacy (the conservation-easement tax incentive that funds much of the work runs through Treasury rules the Alliance lobbies on), and training/conferences/standards-setting for the member network. Member trusts have collectively protected over 60 million acres of US land.
Why it’s listed
60+ million acres protected is more acreage than all US national parks combined. The conservation-easement movement is one of the largest land-use shifts in recent American history, and the Land Trust Alliance is the institution making it durable — by holding the certification line that distinguishes serious trusts from sloppy or fraudulent ones, and by defending the federal policy framework that lets the work happen at all. The directory lists the Alliance because every regional land trust in the directory — [[brodhead-watershed-association]], [[delaware-highlands-conservancy]], [[hudson-highlands-land-trust]], [[pocono-heritage-land-trust]], [[delaware-wild-lands]], [[delaware-nature-society]], and dozens more — operates inside the framework the Alliance maintains.
See also
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- Instance of: [[land-trust]]
- Shares approach with: [[american-farmland-trust]] · [[sogorea-te-land-trust]]
- Member of: [[organization]]
Sources
A listing in the 0mn1.one [[directory]]. Filed under [[chesapeake-tidewater]] in [[directory|the directory]].
What links here, and how
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Practical
shares approach with
- Conservation Easement Land Trust Alliance is the national federation maintaining the standards and federal-policy framework that make easements durable
- Land Trust the national federation that sets accreditation standards and the federal-policy framework keeping trusts durable
- Sudbury Valley Trustees regional member of the national federation
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