Land Trust Alliance 2012 Policy Priorities Survey
1. Help Set Land Trust Alliance Policy Priorities for 2012
The Land Trust Alliance wants your input on our policy work for 2012 – because our bottom line is how we can best help you meet your conservation goals.
For 2011, our Policy Advisory Council recommended, and our Board adopted, the following goals for our policy work:
1. Extending the 2006 increase in conservation tax incentives and making it permanent;
2. Working to improve IRS administration of the rules governing conservation donations;
3. Working to maximize funding for the purchase of conservation easements in the Farm Bill, and to increase land trusts’ access to these and other major federal conservation programs.
4. Changing federal policy to better protect conserved lands from new energy transmission facilities.
The Alliance works on other issues, but these are priorities that hopefully reflect the issues that are most important for advancing land trusts conservation work across the country. All remain unresolved, and we believe they're likely to remain atop our agenda in 2012, although we propose to frame the growing importance of broader federal budget issues as a separate priority in addition to our Farm Bill work.
There’s lots of background in our priorities memo (www.lta.org/policy/documents/priorities-memo) and we hope you'll consider it in responding to this questionnaire. It’s a lot simpler this year -- just a handful of simple questions.