Using a statewide network of conservation and preservation professionals, the Conservation Trust offers communities, landowners and citizens' groups access to a wide range of hands-on technical services and conservation resources that may be difficult to obtain locally. The following information is taken from Conserve Carolina, Volume IV, Issue I, Spring 1995 - the Newsletter of the Conservation Trust for North Carolina. A land trust is a private non-profit organization created to help save land.
Land trusts are the fastest growing sector of the environmental movement in America.
Land trusts offer the best means to conserve and protect lands that are important to local communities and private citizens. Some land trusts are organized at the community level for specific landforms or waterways. Land trust activity covers a wide range of properties from wildlife habitats and nature reserves, to recreational areas and greenways, watersheds and stream corridors, farmlands and productive timberlands under threat of encroaching urban development, community open spaces, and historic or scenic opportunities.