A land trust is a private, legally incorporated, nonprofit organization that works with property owners to protect open land through direct, voluntary land transactions. Land trusts come in many varieties, but their intent is consistent. Land trusts...

A land trust is an agreement whereby one party (the trustee) agrees to hold ownership of a piece of real property for the benefit of another party (the beneficiary). Land trusts are used by nonprofit organizations to hold conservation easements, by...

Land trust, Mequon set to receive state grant $358,500 would help purchase parcel to add to nature preserve By MIKE JOHNSON mikejohnson@journalsentinel.com, Journal Sentinel Wednesday, May 5, 2004 Mequon -- The Ozaukee Washington Land Trust and the city are poised...

Al Gore has made combatting "urban sprawl a major part of his presidential campaign, but the debate about preserving open spaces is over a century old. In 1890, conservationist Charles Eliot warned that much of the Massachusetts countryside was in peril. "Several bits...

About 430 acres of forests and limestone bluffs at the confluence of the Mississippi and Illinois rivers will become a scenic nature area that preservationists say will be a haven for endangered or threatened species.The Palisades Preserve _ along Illinois Route 100, or the Great...

Eleven environmental groups sued the Department of Energy on Monday over its creation of a corridor in the mid-Atlantic region that could smooth the way for construction of new power lines.Under a 2005 law, the federal government can approve new power transmission towers within corridors...