Category Archives: Impact Stories

For two decades, Forest Stewards Guild (FSG) has worked with the New Mexico Youth Conservation Corps (NMYCC), a state funded program, to employ high school-aged youth from disadvantaged communities for the summer.

Southeastern North Carolina is recognized as one of the most ecologically diverse locations on earth, with large, interconnected longleaf forests and wetlands. To support the…

The longleaf pine ecosystem once encompassed more than 90 million acres of North America, from Virginia to Texas. Now, only three percent of the original…

For this land trust partner, a real dialog with local residents and stakeholders is fundamental to achieving a deliberate goal: conserving open, productive and natural…

Over the past 25 years, Colorado Cattlemen’s Agricultural Land Trust (CCALT) has protected more than 41,535 acres of the San Luis Valley region’s key agricultural…

A critical stopover for 21,000 Greater Sandhill cranes each year, the San Luis Valley draws thousands of visitors annually to attend the Valley’s Monte Vista…

The Peconic Land Trust (PLT) was established in 1983 to conserve Long Island’s working farms, watersheds, woodlands, and beachfronts, and to protect the unique rural…

Over the past four years, Colorado Open Lands (COL) has developed a strong presence in the San Luis Valley (SLV), generating a pipeline of conservation…

By partnering directly with The Land Trust Alliance (LTA), the mother of all land trust coalitions with more than 1,000 land trust members, The Moore Charitable Foundation aims to increase the pace, quality and permanence of land conservation through persuasive advocacy and real policy change.