THURDSDAY, APRIL 12th
- FULL-DAY: Conservation Easements from A to Z
10:00 am – 12:00 pm
- Conservation Defense Insurance: Terrafirma at Five
- The Challenge of a Challenge Gift Campaign
- Working with Rural Landowners
- Ecological Assessments for Stewardship and Management
1:15 pm – 2:45 pm
- Mapping Technologies for Land Trusts: Three perspectives
- Introduction to Crowdfunding
- Women and Their Woods
- Roundtable: Easement Violations
3:00 pm – 4:30 pm
- Engaging Youth in Stewardship: Conserving Lands, Transforming Lives
- Engaging Individual Donors
- How Protected Are Parks and Open Space?
- Hunters are Conservationists – Allow them, Track them, Solicit them!
FRIDAY, APRIL 13
- HALF-DAY: Introduction to Trail Inventory & Assessment with GPS
- HALF-DAY: Land Conservation 101
- HALF-DAY: Stewardship Roundtable
- HALF-DAY: Effective branding in a changing world
- HALF-DAY: Understanding the Environmental Rights Amendment: The Intent, Interpretations, and Impact
9:00 am – 12:00 pm
- The Law of Farmland Preservation
- Land Conservation 101
- Stewardship Roundtable
- Managing Staff For Success!
- Conservation Campaigns that Work
- Sustainable Forestry for Conservation: Beginning a path to (pro)active management for forest health, habitat & resiliency
10:30 am – 12:00 pm
- Expand your Impact with Ally Acquisition
- Review of Recent Federal Tax Court Cases
- Farmland preservation and BMP Implementation – A Winning Combination for Protecting and Improving Water Quality
- Sharing Resources in a Time of Limited Resources
1:00 pm – 2:30 pm
- Stewardship Recordkeeping & Tools: Best Practices and Tools for Managing Eased Properties
- Utilizing A Place Based Approach to Trails Planning & Management
- 21st Century Nonprofit Recruitment Strategies
- Tools to Firm Up Landowner Commitments
- Protecting Working Lands in a Changing Climate
3:00 – 4:30 pm
- Sustainable Trails for All: Implementing Universal Access
- Monitoring Conservation Easements with U.A.V. Technology
- Roundtable: Nonprofit Challenges in the 21st Century
- Land Trusts Connecting Farmers to the Land
- Acquisition Roundtable
SATURDAY, APRIL 14
- HALF-DAY: Building Power through Public Narrative
8:30 am – 11:30 am
- Appraisal 101 (Appraisals for Dummies)
- Volunteers Make a Difference
- Strategies for Recruiting the Board You Need and Will Need
- The Business Side of Preservation: Promoting synergy between economic development and open space preservation in Chester County
- Pollinator Conservation on Working Lands: An Important Cause and Great Motivator
- Presentation
10:00 am – 11:30 am
- Putting Return on Environment Studies to Work
- Land Conservation in the City: Consensus Building to Protect Urban Open Space and Watersheds
- Social Media Basics
- Five Fresh Ideas for Strengthening Your Board
- Prescribed Fire – 101
- What are we to do about Climate Change?
1:00 pm – 3:00 pm
- Educating on Climate Change: Demonstrated Strategies to Bridge the Divide
- Local Actions, Regional Results: Municipal Strategies for Improving Water Quality
- Reconnecting Communities to Nature through Community Conservation
- Complex Land Deals: Getting Across the Finish Line
- Kiosks and Waysides: Beyond the Bulletin Board
- Skills and Tools for Major Gift Development
