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 The
Colorado Coalition of Land Trusts presented the Land Trust
Alliance’s newly-completed Standards and Practices course
on “Successful Planning, Selection, and Evaluation of
Conservation Projects.” We presented the workshop twice,
once in Denver on August 28 and again in Montrose on August
30. The all-day courses (9:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.) were taught
by contractors Jane Ellen Hamilton (of Hamilton Consulting,
and Alliance faculty) and Cindy Cohagen (Executive Director
of the Eagle Valley Land Trust). The workshops were well-attended
and included staff and board members from the following CCLT-member
organizations:
| Aspen
Valley Land Trust |
Black
Canyon Land Trust |
| San
Miguel County Open Space |
Crested
Butte Land Trust |
| The
Trust for Land Restoration |
Montezuma
Land Conservancy |
| Mesa
Land Trust |
La
Plata Open Space Conservancy |
| Lower
Arkansas Valley Water Conservancy District |
Colorado
Cattlemen’s Agricultural Land Trust |
| The
Trust for Public Land |
Mountain
Area Land Trust |
| City
of Loveland |
South
Metro Land Conservancy |
These
trainings were presented as part of a capacity-building initiative
and preparation for accreditation and were also timely as
conservation easements continue to face intense scrutiny from
the IRS and the state of Colorado.
Thanks
again to Community Banks of Colorado, the Colorado Conservation
Trust, and the Land Trust Alliance for their generous support.
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