The following resources have been provided by presenters from the Connecticut Land Conservation Conference.
Interested in presenting at a future conference? Requests for presentations are currently closed, however, contact Amy B. Paterson at abpaterson@ctconservation.org for more info.
Previous Conference Resources
The Land Trust Alliance and the Open Space Institute created this document to guide land trusts as they discuss climate change issues in their local communities.
American Farmland Trust’s mission is to save the land that sustains us by protecting farmland, promoting sound farming practices, and keeping farmers on the land. AFT supports accelerated solar development and believes that, with proper planning and siting, our agricultural lands can also play a meaningful role in hosting solar energy while maintaining active and productive agriculture.
This resource from The Nature Conservancy shares resilient sites in the Eastern US where conservation action is most likely to succeed in the long term.
A compilation of resources and links shared by The Nature Conservancy from the 2020 Climate Primer.
This resource was shared at the 2020 Climate Primer for land trusts.
Open to All: A Disability Inclusion Guide for Land Trusts was created by a dedicated group of people who came together to form an Advisory Council on Inclusive Health and Disabilities under the guidance of the Land Trust Alliance and their partner, the Lakeshore Foundation.
Alexey Kalinin, Katharine Sims, Spencer R. Meyer, and Jonathan R. Thompson, 2022
“Our research assessed the impacts of new land protection on local property tax rates in more than 1400 municipalities in New England between 1990 and 2015. Average impacts on tax rates were small: the average area of new protection of 85 acres was associated with an increase in a homeowner’s annual tax bill of $0.72 per $100,000 of property value…”
This resource was created by the American Farmland Trust and the Connecticut Farmland Trust. This resource provides information on conservation options specifically for Connecticut farmland.
From the The New York Merger and Collaboration Fund
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