The Texas Land Trust Council encourages excellence in the Texas land trust community through collaboration, education, and outreach.

Who are we? The Texas Land Trust Council (TLTC) was formed in 1999 in partnership with Texas Parks and Wildlife Department to serve as a support association for all land trusts in Texas. Today, TLTC is an independent nonprofit organization that continues to promote and sustain the conservation efforts of Texas land trusts.  Currently, there are more than 25 land trusts working throughout Texas.  To date, our member land trust have helped to conserve more than 1.4 Million acres of land!

Texas Land Trusts can help landowners meet their long-term land use objectives by utilizing a variety of land protection tools, such as conservation easements and land purchase.  These tools can be tailored to meet the specific needs of the property owner.

Land trusts have varying conservation objectives. Some work in specific geographic areas while others concentrate on protection of specific natural resources. When entering a conservation project with a landowner, the land trust often agrees to protect the conservation values of a property into perpetuity.  It is important that a landowner select a land trust that shares similar goals for the landowner’s property. 

Texas’ land trusts have protected over 1.4 million acres of farms, ranches, wetlands, wildlife habitat, urban parks, forests, watersheds, coastlines and river corridors.  Contact the Texas Land Trust Council for questions about how you can protect your land, or for more information.

TLTC Resources for Landowners

TLTC offers several resources for landowners interested in protecting their land.

1. Land Trust Directory lists all TLTC member Texas land trusts by county.  Landowners can search for land trusts working in their area of Texas.  The Directory is available to landowners for free on the TLTC website.
2. The Professionals Index lists both state and national professionals with experience in the land conservation field who work with Texas landowners and land trusts.  The Index is available to landowners for free on the TLTC website.
3. The Conservation Easement Handbook details commonly-asked questions on conservation easements in the state of Texas.  The handbook also profiles nine landowners around the state who have used a conservation easement to protect their land.   The handbook is available as a free download on the TLTC website.
4. Education and Information:  TLTC hosts an annual Texas land conservation conference, traditionally held in February of each year in Austin. Join TLTC and receive registration discounts along with other benefits and opportunities to network with other conservation land owners and land trusts.  Landowners are welcome and encouraged to attend the Conference.

Support Texas’ vibrant and growing land trust community, and Texas land conservation, by joining the Texas Land Trust Council.  Both individual or professional memberships are available.

TLTC Staff Contact information:

Lori Olson
Executive Director
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512-994-TLTC (8582)

Lori Olson became the Executive Director of the Texas Land Trust Council in July of 2011. Lori has extensive experience in the field of land conservation and has worked in the land trust movement for over a decade. She is the former Executive Director of the EnoRiver Association, a land trust located in Durham, NC, and the former Outreach and Development Director for the Oconee River Land Trust in Athens, GA.  Most recently, Lori served as a Project Manager for The Trust for Public Land in Texas where her work focused on conservation transactions in the Balcones Canyonlands National Wildlife Refuge, and with local government partners including the Cities of Austin, San Marcos and San Antonio, and Travis and Hays Counties.  She also worked on the Central TexasGreenprint for Growth, a collaborative planning tool to help communities identify conservation priorities, and as a liaison to theAustin-Bastrop River Corridor Partnership, a regional partnership focused on protecting the Colorado River in Eastern Travis andBastrop Counties. A native Texan, Lori is a graduate of the University of Texas at Austin with a B.S. in Conservation Biology, and a graduate of the University of Oregon with a Master's degree in Community and Regional Planning, as well as a Master of Science degree in Public Affairs.