Resources For Land Trusts
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Article linked here.
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In the fall of 2019, the Massachusetts Land Trust Coalition (MLTC) sent surveys to land trusts and other private nonprofit organizations engaged in the protection or management of conservation land in...
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Challenges: BIPOC-led coalitions, movements, organizations, and other under-resourced groups often struggle to build human and financial capital due to systemic racism. Under-resourced nonprofit group...
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This booklet is designed as a practical guide to help nonprofit board members, executives and funders think through a merger. Over the next pages, you’ll take a quick trip through a merger’s terrain a...
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Service Direct resource guide: discover how to overcome barriers and access resources in order to lead in your field.
https://servicedirect.com/resources/poc-in-the-trades/
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This article is part case study, part educational about the benefits of having Terrafirma. It is not a sales pitch.
Terrafirma has been helping land trusts uphold lasting conservation since 2013. Now,...
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This is not intended to be a comprehensive glossary of all the language used in conversations regarding social justice, diversity, and allyship. In every context, the meaning of these words may change...
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A resource for information on wheelchair and power driven mobility devices access to trails.
View resources here.
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This presentation on accounting and financial reporting for land trusts was made at the 2018 Mass Land Conservation Conference.
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The Agricultural Conservation Easement Program – Agricultural Land Easement component (ACEP-ALE) is a voluntary federal conservation program implemented by the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Serv...
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This watershed-scale climate collaboration toolkit provides context for, and highlights, the benefits of these types of collaborations. Thanks to our Climate Communications and Slow the Flow Work Grou...
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Last reviewed by MLTC 9/23/2024.
An agricultural conservation easement (restriction) is used by a landowner to protect productive agricultural land. The Agricultural Farmland Trust's fact sheet descri...
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The Public Lands program is a free resource for agencies and non-profit organizations that helps partners:
Understand how visitors use your trails
Manage trail information to help your visitors recre...
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This publication seeks to be a helpful resource to land trusts considering merging, with an overview of the process and key junctures, tips from organizations that have been there and tools to make th...
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This publication seeks to be a helpful resource to land trusts considering merging, with an overview of the process and key junctures, tips from organizations that have been there and tools to make th...
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This case was brought before the MA Supreme Judicial Court to clarify and codify the steps required to designate Article 97 land.
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An Act Preserving Open Space in the Commonwealth, also known as the Public Lands Preservation Act (PLPA), was enacted in 2023, establishing in statute requirements and a process for submission to the ...
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The forests in Mass Audubon’s care are under threat from the interacting effects of climate change, pests and diseases, intensive browsing by high deer populations, and invasion by non-native plant sp...
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Last reviewed by MLTC 9/24/2024.
All about selling land, or an interest in land such as a conservation restriction, for less than fair market value to a nonprofit land trust or government agency when ...
