ORLT Staff Attends LTA Southeastern Conference

ORLT Staff Dan, Theresa, Hadrien, and Erin (not pictured) attended the Land Trust Alliance Southeastern Conference this week.

Last week, ORLT's staff attended the Land Trust Alliance 's Southeastern Conference in Greenville, SC. This annual gathering for land trust professionals offers an opportunity to network, learn from one another, attend educational sessions on topics ranging from how to effectively engage conservation landowners to the latest innovations in land-based mapping technologies.

We came back inspired to get to work conserving and stewarding important places across Georgia, and proud to be just one of countless organizations working to protect land and water in perpetuity. As stated by the key-note speaker at the conference, Dr. J. Drew Lanham, cultural ornithologist, naturalist, educator and author of "The Home Place: Memoirs of a Colored Man's Love Affair with Nature" , our connection to land is what grounds us, and as conservationists we must ALL be activists.