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Our Land Trusts
have protected nearly
100,000 acres
With over 30,000 acres placed under
protection in 2007, lands protected by the Alabama Land Trust, Inc., the Georgia Land Trust,
Inc., and
their affiliate organizations are now within a few hundred acres of 100,000 acres.
Some of the success in placing this much
land under protection in 2007 may have been due to the
sunsetting of the enhanced tax benefits that were in place in 2006
and 2007.
The incentives may also have had a hand
in the fact that nationally, more land was placed under protection
than was developed in 2006.
Beyond those considerations, however,
there seems to be an expansion of awareness that time is running out
to protect the places we care about. One estimate says that at
current rates of land consumption (around 110 acres a day are
converted from ag/timber/open land use to impervious surfaces in Georgia
alone) that we only have around twenty years left to protect
significant open space.
We hope if you own property and are
concerned that the land continue to provide some of what land has
traditionally given us--food, water, open space, a connection to our
home places--that you will let us work with you to protect your land.
Working together and using our
experience, we can put together a land protection plan that will
benefit you, your community and generations yet to come, so that
they can
have a chance to enjoy some of what the world we have known in
our lives has so plentifully given us.
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Our Mission:
Protecting Land for
Present and Future
Generations
 
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