The Trust for Public Land

A national land conservation organization that conserves land for people to enjoy as parks, gardens and other natural places, ensuring livable communities for generations to come.

Why do we exist?

Is the only national nonprofit organization focused on conserving land for people.

Conserves the lands people need, from new city parks to cherished rural and suburban landscapes to the untouched wild, lands that inspire us.

Helps communities identify their own most important lands for recreation, watershed protection, and habitat conservation.

Works where the need is greatest: in America’s park-poor neighborhoods, in communities directly in the path of growth, and in places where people have come together to protect a place they hold dear.

Does what others cannot. TPL provides specialized skills and dedicated attention to a conservation project when communities and agencies lack these resources.

Serves everyone—from inner-city children to families in rapidly growing suburbs; from rural workers whose livelihoods come from the land to all of us who find inspiration in natural places.

What have you accomplished?

Over the past 35 years, TPL has worked with willing landowners, community groups, and national, state, and local agencies to complete more than 3,000 land conservation projects in 46 states, protecting more than 2 million acres of land. Since 1994, TPL has helped states and communities craft and pass over 330 ballot measures, generating almost $25 billion in new conservation funding.

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