With Bryan Pierce’s recent retirement from his role with Northwoods Land Trust, Gathering Waters presents him with the 2019 Harold “Bud” Jordahl Lifetime Achievement Award for his decades of service to the land trust community. 

Gathering Waters named Ben Niemann the the 2019 Harold “Bud” Jordahl Lifetime Achievement Award for creating a land conservation legacy that stretches far beyond his classroom. 

Conservation easements last forever — at least that’s the intent. But is your land trust aware that there may be a threat to conservation easements embedded in state law?

Land trust staff and board members — we invite you to serve on the Conference Planning Committee. It’s the best way to make the next conference what you want it to be!

The Knowles-Nelson Stewardship Program has been renewed for two years at its current funding level of $33 million per year.

Gathering Waters distributed a survey to member land trusts in March 2019 to gauge needs and opportunities. Survey results will inform the Land Trust Council’s priorities and Gathering Waters’ future programs and services.

Future conservation efforts in Wisconsin will be devastated if the Legislature and the Governor cannot agree to reauthorize the Knowles-Nelson Stewardship Program for another ten years in the state budget. Learn what Gathering Waters is doing and how you can help.

Watch our video calling on legislators to renew the Knowles-Nelson Stewardship Program for 10 years.

Our friends at the Wisconsin Wetlands Association created a short, animated video that explains wetlands. We thought it was pretty great and are sharing it here.

Write a letter to the editor of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel rebutting misleading claims about the Knowles-Nelson Stewardship Program and emphasizing what a good investment the program is for Wisconsin.

Listen to an interview with Carol Abrahamzon, Executive Director of Mississippi Valley Conservancy, about protecting and preserving natural places like the La Crosse Blufflands, thanks in part to the Knowles-Nelson Stewardship Program.

The budget debate is heating up…and the future of the Knowles-Nelson Stewardship Program is uncertain.