Sonja Wallen, Land Protection Coordinator, and Walter Stephens, CGLT Easement Donor. Land trusts are nonprofit organizations directly involved in protecting important land resources for the public benefit.
Land trusts operate in rural, urban, and suburban areas.
We protect forests, wetlands, farmlands, wildlife habitat, urban gardens, ranches, watersheds, coastlines, river corridors, and trails -whatever kind of open land is important to the communities and regions where we operate. Our mission is to promote the responsible stewardship and preservation of land which has natural, recreational, scenic, historic, or educational value in Coastal Georgia. We work with those who love the land and want to see it protected for this and future generations. Tidal and freshwater wetlands make up a significant portion of the land area of Coastal Georgia and state and federal lands occupy about another fifth of the region. With Coastal Georgia's population increasing rapidly, development of the remaining lands and the loss of natural areas is occurring at a rapid pace.