To learn more, contact the Southern Idaho Land Trust at 208-432-5527, email This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it , or mail your questions to the Southern Idaho Land Trust, P.O. Box 2544, Twin Falls, ID 83344. You can also visit www.landtrustalliance.org/
What is a land trust?
Today, there are 1,700 land trusts that have more than 100,000 volunteers and 2 million members. So far, land trusts have conserved 37 million acres of land in America. The Southern Idaho Land Trust (SILT) currently has conserved almost 1,000 acres in south-central Idaho.
A land trust is a nonprofit organization that, as all or part of its mission, actively works to conserve land by undertaking or assisting in land or conservation easement acquisition, or by its stewardship of such land or easements.
Land trusts work with landowners and the community to conserve land by accepting donations of land, purchasing land, negotiating private, voluntary conservation agreements on land, and stewarding conserved land through the generations to come.
Most land trusts are deeply connected to local needs and are well-equipped to identify land that offers critical natural habitat as well as land offering recreational, agricultural and other conservation value.