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Dear Kimberly,
We love the fresh start of a new year – the promise of possibilities; nurturing new friendships and partnerships; expectations for what’s to come and celebrating our successes.
Keep sending us your e-news and newsletters so we can share your unique work in the Southeast throughout the year. With Rally in New Orleans in September, there won’t be a Southeast Conference this spring, so, instead, we hope to see many of you at your statewide land trust meetings.
Keep in touch,
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Rare Species, Hayfields, Bats and Geologic Diversity
The four staff at the Foothills Land Conservancy were busy last year. As of December, the conservancy completed 12 conservation easement projects totaling 6,625 acres – surpassing the previous year’s acreage and conserving a variety of landscapes and habitats.
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When Mountains Meet …
After years of work, and a team effort still in the making, the Southern Appalachian Highlands Conservancy purchased the 601-acre Grassy Ridge tract in Avery County, NC this past December. The property joins the Pisgah National Forest at 6,100 feet elevation to the north and the Yellow Mountain State Natural Area to the south, where the land trust and its partners, have worked to conserve critical habitat and recreational lands. More >>
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Making Choices One Day At a Time
How do you decide what work takes priority in a given week, month, or throughout the year? Do you have people working long hours, week after week?
Take a look at this recent post in the Ask an Expert forum on The Learning Center with suggestions on how to proactively tackle this situation. If you’re not already on The Learning Center, go to http://learningcenter.lta.org and click "Get Started" to sign up today. The Learning Center is a service offered to all Alliance-member land trusts where you can ask experts questions, connect with your colleagues in private groups, and find sample documents in the digital library. Need more info? Email tlc@lta.org.
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Puerto Rico and the Virginia Outdoors Foundation Fund Partner for Conservation
While the Conservation Trust for Puerto Rico and Virginia Outdoors Foundation may be separated by 1,500 miles, their work together is helping them collectively design a conservation easement program, evaluate current practices, and perform better outreach and education in Virginia’s hispanic communities. More >>
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Engaging Folks with Photo Contests
A picture speaks a thousand words, and engaging your community of all ages can speak volumes.
If you are interested in developing a photo contest that fosters the love of the land you might want to check out Valley Land Fund’s work. The contest was designed to get youth outside and learning about nature during the summer. It was so successful that Valley Land Fund is working to repeat it again this year. More >> |
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Call for Proposals: Showcase Your Work at Rally
This year, we want to celebrate with you in New Orleans at Rally the annual land conservation conference from
September 17-19.
The deadline for workshop proposals is February 25, 2013. Think about your lessons learned and be a part of showcasing the region’s unique work and accomplishments by submitting a Rally workshop proposal, so others can learn from you. Need to brainstorm? Contact us. Submit a proposal >> |
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Jim Brown, founder and executive director of Tennessee River Gorge Trust since 1979, is stepping down and into retirement. We wish him well! Rick Huffines has been named the new executive director. More >>
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Running a nonprofit has never been easy, but the challenges today are unprecedented. This book may help you build a broader team: Powered by Pro Bono: The Nonprofit’s Step-by-Step Guide to Scoping, Securing, Managing, and Scaling Pro Bono Resources.
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Would you like to chat? Share ideas with us? We’d love to hear from you. Feel free to email Chuck Roe or Heidi Hannapel or give us a call at (919) 827-0023.
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