11.   Instead, it will provide grants primarily to state and local land trusts, such as the Nature Conservancy and the Trust for Public Lands.

12.   It has formed an advisory board of forestry experts and conservationists to review and select proposals from land trusts.

13.   Lower Merion Conservancy, a new land trust, has five easements on the Main Line.

14.   Nikki Nedeff, director of conservation for the land trust, said she is optimistic the necessary money can be raised to buy the property.

15.   Outright purchase by conservation groups or land trusts of all farmland made vulnerable by inadequate milk prices would be prohibitively costly.

16.   So, now the local land trust, the Piedmont Land Conservancy, is courting the new owners, Bob and Jean Koger, for the easement.

17.   South Texas environmentalists received encouraging news this week, as several land trust acquisitions announced Thursday are for the Lower Rio Grande Valley.

18.   South Texas environmentalists received encouraging news this week, as several land trust acquisitions that will be announced Thursday are for the Lower Rio Grande Valley.

19.   Such easements are legal agreements between property owners and land trusts or government agencies that place permanent restrictions on use of the land to protect conservation values.

20.   Tawakelevu, whose modest home is built on mahogany stilts, said the chiefs had named Speight executive of a new land trust.