Conservation land trust

[1] Conservation land trusts often work in cooperation with landowners to achieve shared goals and may provide public outreach events on the themes of science, environmental issues, species conservation, or other topics relevant to the land they work to protect.

[1] Oversight of these priorities and of the work carried out by the land trust typically rests with a board of directors.

[1] Conservation land trusts may operate in partnership with government agencies or under broader umbrella nonprofit organizations.

[1] Land trusts may focus their work in specific local areas delineated by political boundaries, habitat types, or ecological zones.

[4] In the United States, the first conservation land trust organization was the Massachusetts Trustees of Reservations, founded in 1891.