Stories

Land Trust Appreciation Week gives conservation communities a chance to recognise the people whose decisions keep landscapes intact. For Clark Fork-Pend…

Wildfire can leave a conservation property with intact boundaries but a fragile interior. Severe burns remove ground cover, compact soil and reduce…

Addressing recreational use conflicts on multi-use conserved properties starts with a simple premise: conservation easements protect ecological values while…

This spotlight on the St. Joe River watershed conservation initiative looks at a landscape where forests, wetlands, working farms and flowing water are closely…

Protective covenants, also known in some jurisdictions as conservation easements, are voluntary legal agreements attached to a property deed that limit…

The Lower Clark Fork flows north out of the Idaho panhandle, gathers tributaries from the Cabinet and Swan ranges, and threads through Sanders County toward…

Riverbank restoration has become a quiet movement among landholders who want to lock in healthy water, wildlife, and shade for the long haul. In Australia,…

When a creek cuts deeply into its bed, water moves through a narrow trench instead of spreading across a living floodplain. Banks become unstable, groundwater…

Landholders from the wheatbelt of Western Australia to the grazing paddocks of New South Wales are increasingly weighing whether to bind their property forever…

For many rural families across Australia and North America, a property is more than an asset on a balance sheet. It is a working landscape, a pantry of…