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Sign up for our Action Network or Connecticut Land Conservation Council Email Newsletter More CLCC Pages Success Stories  Practice Notes  2008 Legislative Agenda 2008 Conference Summary CLCC Downloads   2007 Legislative Session Wrap Up Lobbying for Land Trusts Articles of Association Upcoming Workshops Please check back for upcoming workshops! Meeting Schedule CLCC Steering Committee Meeting The next steering committee meeting is Monday, 4/28 from 3-5 pm. 55 High St. Middletown, CT 06457   Face of Connecticut The Conservancy and other groups ask the state for $1 billion to preserve the Face of Connecticut.  Brochure  (pdf, 2.41MB) Media Advisory  (pdf, 19.8kb)

The Council’s mission is to advocate for land preservation, stewardship and funding, and ensure the long term strength and viability of the land conservation community. The intent of the new Council is to enable our conservation community to better learn from each other and to even more effectively advocate for critical issues at the State Capitol.

The Connecticut Land Conservation Council was formed in 2006 by the merger of two existing programs of The CT Chapter of Nature Conservancy: the Land Trust Service Bureau (LTSB) and the Land Conservation Coalition for Connecticut (LCCC).  The Council provides CT’s conservation community with:

• Technical assistance and referrals for land trusts and other organizations on Connecticut-specific conservation topics
• A new and improved website to increase communications with the membership of CLCC
• Training and education, including the annual Convocation
• A voice and advocate for your organization and at the capitol
• Your source of conservation news and activity
• A venue for bringing forward issues of importance to other conservation groups

The CT Land Conservation Council Steering Committee   

• Kevin Case, Chair
  Land Trust Alliance 
   
• Melissa Spear
  The Trust for Public Land
   
• Sandy Breslin
  Audubon Connecticut
   
• Elaine LaBella
  Housatonic Valley Association
   
• David Bingham
  Salem Land Trust
   
• Curt Johnson
  CT Fund for the Environment
   
• Tom O'Dell
  CT Association of Conservation and Inland Wetland Commissions
   
• Charles Leach
  Farmington Land Trust
   
• Katchen Coley
  Middletown Garden Club
   
• Hunter Brawley
  Naromi and Cornwall Land Trusts
   
• Chuck Howard
  Simsbury Land Trust
   
• Damon Hearne
  CT Forest & Park Association
   
• John Rozum
  CT NEMO Program, UCONN

We are actively recruiting volunteers to serve on the Council’s working committees; please contact Sarah Pellegrino, Program Coordinator, at 860-344-0716 x 320 if you would be interested in joining the Finance and Administration Committee; the Training, Education and Communications Committee or the Advocacy Committee. 

 Nature picture credits (left to right): Photo © Alden Warner, Photo © Richard Newton (butterfly).