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- Land Trust Alliance - Promotes voluntary land conservation and works with nonprofit land trusts by providing information, skills and resources land trusts need to conserve land for the benefit of communities and natural systems.
- Tug Hill Tomorrow Land Trust - A regional, non-profit land trust and education organization helping to retain Tug Hill's farm, forest, recreation, and wild lands through education, research, and voluntary land protection. Services include conservation easements, land registries, and conservation planning.
- Northeast Wisconsin Land Trust - Formed in 1996 to preserve and restore the natural heritage of Northeast Wisconsin lands and waters through partnerships in land conservancy and resource management. Mission statement, land trust definitions and resources.
- Gathering Waters Conservancy - Assists land trusts, landowners and communities in their efforts to protect the state's land and water resources. Provides landowner conservation options, directory of state land trusts, news and events.
- Creating Land Trusts: Help Conserve Our Land and Natural Resources - General information about the history and organization of land trust organizations. Includes links.
- Blue Ridge Rural Land Trust - Non-profit land trust serving a seven county area of northwestern NC. Their mission is to preserve rural communities and culture through the preservation of the land resource upon which they depend.
- Whatcom Land Trust - Mission is to preserve and protect wildlife habitat, scenic, agricultural and open space lands in whatcom county for future generations by securing interests in land and promoting land stewardship.
- School LAND Trust Program - Where revenue from school trust lands is deposited and distributed to every public school in the state through the School LAND Trust Program.
- Land Trust Alliance: New Hampshire - List of land trusts in the state with contact information.
- Land Trust Alliance: Kentucky - Comprehensive list of land trusts in the state with brief overview and contact information.
Wikipedia Articles
- Land Trust Alliance - The Land Trust Alliance is a national coordinating organization for more than 1,600 land trusts across the United States. The organization describes its mission as being the "convener, strategists, and representative of land trusts across America.
- Branford Land Trust - The Branford Land Trust is a non-profit organization that purchases land to make it non-developable, protected land through land trusts.
- Land trust - A land trust is an agreement whereby one party (the trustee) agrees to hold ownership of a piece of real property for the benefit of another party (the beneficiary). Land trusts are used by nonprofit organizations to hold conservation easements, by corporations and investment groups to compile large tracts of land, and by individuals to keep their real estate ownership private, avoid probate and provide several other benefits.
- Settlement (trust) - In the context of trusts, a settlement is a deed (also called a trust instrument) whereby real estate, land, or other property is given by a settlor into trust so that the beneficiary only has the limited right to the property (for example during their life), but usually has no right to transfer the land to another or leave it in their own will. Instead the ...
- Cave Conservancies - Cave Conservancies are specialized land trusts that primarily manage caves or karst features in the United States. Organizations that serve as cave management consultants to cave owners are usually considered cave conservancies.