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The American Chestnut Land Trust preserves and cares for natural and cultural landscapes in the Parkers Creek and Governors Run watersheds and promotes land conservation across Southern Maryland. It provides environmentally sustainable public access to preserved properties for education, scientific study, recreation, and cultural programs.

The Lakes Region Conservation Trust (LRCT) is an independent, non-profit, member-supported organization founded in 1979 to conserve the natural heritage of New Hampshire's Lakes Region and dedicated to the permanent protection, stewardship, and respectful use of lands that define the character of the region and its quality of life.

At Baltimore Tree Trust, we work to restore our city’s urban forests—green spaces and corridors that provide clean air, encourage community engagement, and nourish an appreciation for Baltimore’s environmental longevity. We plant and care for our city’s trees because of their lasting positive effects on neighborhoods citywide.

The C&O Canal Trust, as the official non-profit partner of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal National Historical Park, works in partnership with the National Park Service and local communities to raise funds to preserve the Park for future generations and to broaden support through programs that highlight the Park’s historical, natural, and cultural heritage and recreational opportunities.

COLT History The Central Okanagan Land Trust (COLT) was formed by the Central Okanagan Foundation in 1991 to accept donations of land and other assets so COLT can purchase or hold land for the preservation, conservation, or fostering of nature or wildlife sanctuaries, parks or reserves, for future generations. Today As a registered charitable organization, COLT works closely with donors and others to move this important mandate forward in the rapidly-urbanizing Central Okanagan region. The Trust also continues to work with the Central Okanagan Foundation as a repository of valuable Endowment Funds that help purchase land, raise public awareness, provide land stewardship, and engage new donors to leave a legacy for their families and future generations. Contact us to learn more about how you can be a part of this important legacy in our community.

Prickly Pear Land Trust works to connect land and people across west‑central Montana by protecting open space, wildlife habitat, working ranchland, and community trails. They secure conservation easements and sometimes acquire land to create parks and trails, and run education and stewardship programs to maintain long‑term public access and ecological values.

The Santa Fe Conservation Trust partners with our community to keep northern New Mexico’s living lands and people flourishing together. We protect culturally and environmentally significant landscapes, ignite people’s passion for nature and enable the continual regeneration of our healthy place. Vision StatementWe envision a future where everyone in northern New Mexico cherishes nature and works to preserve it for this and future generations.

The Comox Valley Land Trust works with public and private landowners to protect greenspace, ecosystems and landscape scale connectivity in the Comox Valley. We hold 11 conservation covenants on properties that have ecologically significant geology, aquatic features, connectivity, flora and fauna. We also work proactively with Government and the development community to modernize and streamline environmentally friendly land use practices, low impact development technologies and rainwater management.

We are one of more than 35 land trusts working across the province to protect the natural and cultural landscape through direct protection and ongoing stewardship of land. We also actively work towards increased awareness and education about our local environment and how the public can contribute to our work while still enjoying and appreciating the natural beauty of the eastern coast and North Channel of Georgian Bay.

The Concord Land Conservation Trust owns over 1,000 acres of land in Concord, all of which is open to the public. We have a beautiful, full-color, 25-page Trail Guide (updated in 2014) that includes maps of some of our best land for walking and informative descriptions of each property’s trails and features. Become a member today and we’ll mail you your own booklet as well as keep you informed of guided walks and other events. The maps can be viewed by clicking on the property names below.

White Buffalo Land Trust practices, promotes, and develops systems of regenerative agriculture for local, regional, and global impact. We are focused on the restoration of our ecosystem through agriculture. We are committed to the evolution of land stewardship and the redesign of our food system to directly address the climate, biodiversity, public health, and food security challenges that we face today. We believe change begins on the ground and that our local solutions lead to regional and global impact through shared data, models, and linking practices to outcomes.

ENV Wildlife Conservation Trust protects biodiversity by working to end the illegal wildlife trade threatening countless species with extinction. We implement effective conservation projects and activities throughout Vietnam in collaboration with our sister organization, Education for Nature Vietnam (ENV), and international partners. To make strides towards ending the wildlife trade, our on-the-ground efforts focus on educating the public to reduce demand for wildlife, strengthening law enforcement response to wildlife crime and tracking results, and collaborating with government officials to update and uphold wildlife protection legislation.