social facebook box blue 48 social twitter box blue 48

2009 Conference
2009 Statewide Conference Presentations

Wildlife Tax Valuation by Linda Campbell (Program Director - Private Lands and Public Hunting, Wildlife Division, Texas Parks & Wildlife Department)

Landowner Incentives: Helping People Help the Land by Claude Ross (Soil Conservationist - Natural Resources Conservation Service)

Conservation Easement Defense by Jane Ellen Hamilton (Senior Faculty Member - Land Trust Alliance) and Burgess Jackson (Attorney at Law - Law Office of Burgess Jackson)

Land Fragmentation Study and Texas Land Trends by Neal Wilkins (Director - Texas A&M IRNR/Professor of Wildlife and Fisheries Sciences) and Blair Fitzsimons (Texas Advisor for Policy and Program Development, American Farmland Trust)

Water Resource Issues by Amy Hardberger (Attorney - Texas Office of Environmental Defense)

Carbon Credits: An Opportunity for Forest Landowners by Hughes Simpson (CF - Texas Forest Service)

Landonwer Perspective by Matt Hicks (Landowner - Willow Springs Ranch)

Understanding Land Trust Standards and Practices and Demystifying the Accreditation Process by Sylvia Bates (Director of Standards and Practices - Land Trust Alliance); Nancy Hyde (Board Member - Northern Virginia Conservation Trust); and Jennifer Lorenz (Land Trust Accreditation Commissioner and Executive Director of Legacy Land Trust)

Mitigation Banking: The Why, What and How by Grant Barber (Ecologist - PBS&J)

Conservation Acquisitions by David Hartman (Attorney - Smith, Robertson, Elliot, Glen, Klein & Bell, LLP)

Pineywoods Mitigation Bank Project by Andy Jones (Executive Director - The Conservation Fund, Texas)

Volunteer Management and Conservation Outreach by Dalmara Bayne (Executive Director - Native Prairies Association of Texas); Kyle Brazil (Quail Program Manager - Audubon Texas); and Mary Anne Piacentini (Executive Director - Katy Prairie Conservancy)