Allegheny Land Trust Survey Information

Allegheny Land Trust has embarked on a comprehensive and probing strategic planning process that includes a survey to help us determine the region’s land protection priorities. We want to focus our resources to protect the lands that are the most important to the community.

Three pennies. Is it protecting land with significant wildlife habitat and biological diversity; wetlands and floodplains that absorb stormwater reducing flood events, or scenic ridgelines and hillsides that follow our rivers and highways shaping the character of our cities and neighborhoods? Or is it just neighborhood green space that provides relief from the hustle and bustle of everyday life?

Everyone is affected by land use. Your personal feedback is vital! Please take a few minutes now (and before April 18th) to complete the on-line Allegheny Land Trust Stakeholder Survey. It provides you with the opportunity to influence the future and a chance to get your three cents in. Thank you for your time and consideration.

What is the Allegheny Land Trust?

Allegheny Land Trust is an independent Pennsylvania nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization incorporated in 1993 to protect land of natural value in and adjacent to Allegheny County. Allegheny Land Trust helps local people save local land that contributes to the scenic, recreational, educational and environmental wealth of our communities. We’ve protected over 1,250 acres in Allegheny and Washington Counties.

Allegheny Land Trust is poised to help those who have targeted land for protection and are committed to dedicating the time and money to see the project through. We help by negotiating transactions, raising other private and public dollars and bring to the table all of the tools available to conserve land such as easements and tax benefits. The land must meet certain environmental criteria and provide a substantial benefit to the community. Contact us if you have a land conservation project that you are considering. We’re here to help you make it happen!

Who is the Allegheny Land Trust?

Allegheny Land Trust operates with a full-time staff, several dedicated volunteers and is governed by a distinguished board of volunteer directors from area corporations, non-profits and universities. These are your neighbors who bring to the Trust a variety of skills, experience and dedication to protect the natural heritage of our communities.

The Allegheny Land Trust is a tightly run organization. Less than 10% of our annual budget is used for operations, so more of your contribution goes toward land acquisition, trail development and other conservation programs. We receive financial support from foundations, businesses and state programs for major projects, and rely on memberships and contributions from groups and individuals concerned about the rapid loss of greenspace in their communities for operating costs. Please join our team so you can proudly say. . . I help save local greenspace.

How does the Trust protect natural lands?

The Allegheny Land Trust accepts donations of property and conservation easements. The Trust also purchases lands of particular natural significance.

The Trust generally practices hands-off management on the land it acquires. The plant and animal communities are allowed to improve and mature without human intervention. Where appropriate, provisions are made for environmentally sensitive public trails.

Local communities and organizations are important to the Trust’s work, because they provide volunteers to care for the Trust’s lands. In turn, the Trust supports the conservation efforts of these organizations. Call today if you’d like to help out by adopting a property.