What Is A Land Trust?

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Land Trusts are local, regional, or statewide nonprofit conservation organizations directly involved in helping protect natural, scenic, recreational, agricultural, historic, or cultural property. They work to preserve open land that is important to the communities and regions where they operate. Land trusts respond rapidly to conservation needs and operate in cities, rural, and suburban areas.

Land trusts now operate in every state in the nation protecting land of local, regional, and national importance.

For additional information about how we protect the Southern Appalachian Highlands, please look over our

• Conservation Methods,
• our Areas of Conservation Priorities,
• and read about a real success story.