CLCC’s 2024 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. Partnerships with other land conservation advocates, grassroots support, and public participation are essential to our success of CLCC’s annual agenda.
Looking Back
The 2024 legislative session, which ended on May 8, brought major disappointments and quiet victories, reminding us of the ongoing challenges and the importance of persistence in advocacy. Here are some reflections:
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, including the following wins...
The 2022 Legislative Session may have been a “short session”, but there was no shortage of action, and ultimately good news for natural and working lands.
Click below to read more about what we accomplished together.
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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.
We're stronger together.
