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How to Get Involved

Many Options for Participation & Support:

All Kansas residents—farmers, ranchers, city dwellers, business people, landowners, corporate leaders, public officials, and civic groups alike—have a stake in the protection of our Kansas landscapes for our families and their future.

You can help the Kansas Land Trust preserve undeveloped prairies, woods, farmland, and wetlands by joining the land trust and recruiting new members; donating conservation easements or land to the land trust; making financial contributions to our Flint Hills Campaign and Stewardship Fund; including KLT in your estate; volunteering to work on KLT projects; or spreading the Kansas Land Trust's preservation message to owners of undeveloped land.

  • By joining the Kansas Land Trust, you'll receive our quarterly newsletter, Stewardship Notes, which will keep you informed of current conservation activities, including invitations to special KLT events.

  • Perhaps the most important way to participate is to donate land or a conservation easement to the Kansas Land Trust. Besides tax savings, the greatest reward for most landowners is the knowledge that their lands' special features will be permanently protected.

  • KLT gratefully accepts contributions for projects or properties of particular interest to donors.  Also, any gift of real estate—homes, farms, buildings, lots, or commercial property—can provide substantial support for KLT's ongoing land conservation efforts while providing tax benefits to the donor.

  • People who do not own land can also help significantly by contributing to our Flint Hills Campaign or Stewardship Fund and thereby share in the perpetual mission of this organization. While the landowner is responsible for upholding the restrictions of a conservation easement, the Kansas Land Trust is legally responsible for enforcement and monitors each property regularly. The gift of an easement is accompanied by a contribution to KLT's Stewardship Fund to ensure KLT's ability to meet the obligations to the donor and therefore uphold the easement forever.
     
  • Create a "family legacy" by including the Kansas Land Trust in your estate planning.  Ensure that the next generations can enjoy a rich, natural landscape like you see today. A planned gift to KLT will reduce the tax burden for your heirs and, after taxes, probably will not reduce the amount they eventually receive, had you not made this charitable contribution. Simply incorporate something like the following in your estate planning document (although always consult with your own attorney): 

    • I give _____ (specific dollar amount, financial instrument, or property) to the Kansas Land Trust, located in Lawrence, Kansas, an IRS 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organization (#48-1090912) and Kansas non-profit corporation, for the purpose of protecting and preserving Kansas lands of ecological, agricultural, scenic, historic, or recreational significance. 

  • KLT was founded and built by volunteers. Contact our Carol Huettner, our Office Manager, to find an activity which suits you or your organization.

  • Help spread KLT's preservation message. Permanently protected land aids communities in planning for future growth and service needs. While zoning and public ownership can accomplish some land use goals, the gift of a conservation easement to the Kansas Land Trust enables the private landowner to make a contribution to the community that will last forever.

Landowners, people without land—all Kansas Land Trust members—believe in saving endangered land.