Resources For Land Trusts

  • Land Conservation Options

    Last reviewed by MLTC: 12/11/2025 These resources explain the main ways private landowners can conserve their land, including donations, conservation restrictions, charitable sales, and other approach...

  • Land Conservation Terms and Acronyms

    Last Reviewed by MLTC: 12/11/2025 This resource provides clear definitions of the land conservation terms, agencies, programs, and legal frameworks most commonly used in Massachusetts. Conservation p...

  • Land Trust Alliance Policy Action

    The Land Trust Alliance works to secure public policies on a national scale that support land trusts' efforts and their conservation goals. See discussions of Tax Policy, Land Conservation Funding, Lo...

  • Land Trust as Superhero

    Thank the Superhero in Our Midst: An OpEd in the Cape Cod Times describes the many benefits of conserved land for all.

  • Land Use and Drinking Water

    This report uses data and methodologies to study the impact of the decline of forest cover and the increase of agriculture or urban land cover in a drinking water source drainage areas (2008) View Rep...

  • Landscape Scale Watershed Conservation: Sebago Lake

    Learn how a partnership between Sebago Clean Waters, Portland Water District and many others developed with the goal of protecting 25% of the local watershed, which is only one of 50 public surface wa...

  • Language of Conservation 2013

    How to Communicate Effectively to Build Support for Conservation. Based on extensive qualitative research and a representative national survey of American voters commissioned by The Nature Conservan...

  • Learn the State Legislative Process

    This Legislative Primer will serve to demystify the steps that lead to the passage of new laws and funding measures. Strong conservation laws and programs are adopted largely as a result of broad publ...

  • Legal Food Hub

    Last Reviewed by MLTC: 12/11/2025 A free legal referral service connecting farmers, food entrepreneurs, and food system organizations with attorneys for assistance on land access, business, and transa...