CLCC’s 2026 Conservation Priorities
Every year, the Connecticut Land Conservation Council sets a Conservation Agenda identifying key legislative policy and funding priorities critical to land conservation at every level.
The 2026 Connecticut General Assembly convenes on February 4 and adjourns on May 6.
Below are CLCC’s top recommendations on State priorities for 2026; you can also download a one-page summary (PDF).
Looking Back
Well done, conservation advocates! The 2025 legislative session ended June 4 with some exciting wins for our conservation policy and funding priorities, thanks to the strong support we had from land trusts, legislative champions, and other critical conservation partners. Your steadfast advocacy and engagement with your elected officials throughout the legislative session made the difference. Thank you!
The following is a wrap-up of the 2025 Legislative Session as it relates to CLCC’s 2025 State Conservation Policy and Funding Priorities.
The 2024 legislative session brought major disappointments and quiet victories, reminding us of the ongoing challenges and the importance of persistence in advocacy. From requests for testimony to more recent and relentless calls to action, you, your land trust, and others in communities across the state responded with remarkable dedication and support. Thank you!
In 2023, strategic advocacy together with an unwavering commitment by legislative champions, a strong partnership with the CT Department of Energy and Environmental Protection, and targeted outreach by land trusts to key legislators, were the ingredients to a successful legislative session for CLCC’s top land conservation priorities.
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Yes, Your Land Trust Can Lobby!
If your land trust has a stake in enhancing funding opportunities and increasing tax incentives for land conservation, investing in nature-based climate solutions, connecting communities to locally grown food, and ensuring equitable access to greenspaces, you should lobby!
Your land trust (and any 501(c)(3) nonprofit), whether operating statewide or in a single town, staffed or all-volunteer, can lobby your municipal council, the state government, and even Congress, if you follow some relatively simple rules
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Outreach Materials
CT Conservation Primer
Areas of Focus
We organize our advocacy work and programming around these areas:
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Strengthen Connecticut Land Conservation
There are many challenges in land conservation, but we have never yielded. We’ve always found our strength in the support of people who care for the environment as much we do. We can achieve so much more working with one another than alone.
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