The Minnesota Land Trust is a private, nonprofit organization that works across Minnesota with private landowners and partners to permanently protect land and shoreline and restore habitat to preserve and improve the scenic beauty, environmental services, and recreation value of our rich and diverse natural spaces. This work is more critical now than ever as we confront the twin threats of accelerating climate change and land development. Natural climate solutions including habitat defragmentation, increasing biodiversity, and carbon grounding are a part of every protection and restoration project we complete. Specifically The Minnesota Land Trust helps conserve the state's most vital natural lands through establishing and monitoring permanent, legal conservation easements. We have protected more than 75,000 acres and 460 miles of shoreline, and restored 4,886 acres of land in the most critical landscapes statewide. Our programming also includes actively connecting people to meaningful nature experiences in order to build a conservation ethos to seed future generations of conservationists. To date, we've also protected over 35 camps, nature centers, and environmental learning centers.