Policy and Advocacy

The Conservation Trust for North Carolina and North Carolina's 24 local and regional land trusts support effective public policies to expand funding and incentives to save the places you love in North Carolina.

The Conservation Trust and the NC Land Trust Council develop and advocate for a slate of policy priorities each year. Each spring, we work with other conservation groups to sponsor and conduct a Land and Water Conservation Lobby Day at the General Assembly.

The Conservation Trust also monitors state agency initiatives and rulemakings that affect conservation, providing input on behalf of the land trust community.

Public Policy Principles of North Carolina's Land Trusts

• Promote land and water protection in North Carolina
• Expand funding for land and water protection
• Work with broad, nonpartisan coalitions to further land and water conservation
• Support policies that foster incentives for voluntary land conservation
• Support conservation at all levels of government

Rep. Sandra Spaulding Hughes of New Hanover County wears a Land for Tomorrow sticker on the House floor during Lobby Day 2008.