The General Assembly has reconvened! The land trust community is at work to ensure legislators understand the urgent need to protect more of North Carolina’s land and water resources in the next five years. North Carolina is losing over 100,000 acres a year to poorly planned development. Land trusts are working each day to protect clean drinking water, sustainable farms and forests, wildlife, and other natural areas before it is too late.

You can help land trusts educate legislators by joining the Land Conservation Advocates Network (LCAN). The Conservation Trust will send LCAN members regular updates on legislative priorities and initiatives that strengthen land and water conservation in the state. We will occasionally ask you to contact your legislator about specific conservation issues that affect you and others living in your community.

You can learn more about the land trust community’s legislative priorities and register to join LCAN by visiting www.ctnc.org and clicking on “Get Involved.”

This year’s top legislative priority is Land for Tomorrow, a campaign to put a bond referendum before North Carolinians in November 2006 that would generate $200 million per year for five years for land conservation.

LCAN members and others can talk with legislators about Land for Tomorrow at Land and Water Conservation Lobby Day on June 14. To register to attend Land and Water Conservation Lobby Day, go to http://www.landfortomorrow.org/page 248.html.

If you cannot be a LCAN member or attend Land and Water Conservation Lobby Day, please consider making a donation to the Conservation Trust to support our advocacy work.

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Conservation Trust for North Carolina
1028 Washington St
Raleigh, NC 27605
Phone: 919-828-4199
Fax: 919-828-4508
Executive Director: Reid Wilson, reid@ctnc.org
Web page: http://www.ctnc.org

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