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Watershed Land Trust (WLT) Is a nonprofit charitable organization which was formed to hold land in fee simple and/or conservation easements in perpetuity. Most Land Trust's mission is to hold vast areas of land typically in large sections. With the ability and expertise to work with any Mitigation Bank or In Lieu Fee arrangement, the WLT is unique in that its mission and focus is to preserve watersheds, waterways, streams, rivers, lakes, wetlands, and adjacent (riparian) corridors and green space primarily for the benefit of water quality, ecosystems, and Open Space. Such a Conservation Purpose could be for preservation of fish, wildlife, or plant habitats or ecosystems. Often times, these will be mitigation sites or in other words, sites that were created or improved as a result of an adverse impact elsewhere which will also include the Conservation Purpose of preservation of open space. If the easement preserves open space to advance a federal, state, or local governmental conservation policy – for example, it protects farmland under a state flood control program or to advance the no net loss of wetlands provision under the Clean Water Act– it may
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The Watershed Land Trust (WLT) holds conservation easements for the protection of waterways, watersheds, streamways, bike trails, hiking trails and riparian corridors. The WLT is available from coast to coast in the United States. |
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Nature Conservancy
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Watershed Institute
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Watershed Land Trust
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Sunflower Land Trust
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Land Institute
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Kansas Land Trust
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Conservation Easement
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Land Trust Coalition
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Land Trust Alliance
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