Starting a Land Trust: A Guide to Forming a Land Conservation Organization.

From wildlife preserves to urban gardens. From farmland to hiking trails. From watersheds to historic landscapes. Across the country, more than 800 land trusts are meeting the special land conservation needs of their communities. The unique ability of these private, nonprofit organizations to craft creative and flexible approaches to local land conservation challenges has made land trusts one of the fastest growing forces in land conservation today. How can you form a land trust in your state or sommunity? This book gives you an overview of a land trust's first year covering topics from filing the legal paperwork, setting up a board or directors, and financial management, to building public awareness, membership and fundraising, managing staff and volunteers, and land conservation techniques...