To preserve and protect land for future generations, we engage with our elected leaders to encourage sound and responsible policy.
Our policy priorities reflect the need to accelerate the pace of voluntary private land conservation while recognizing the important economic contribution of our community.
Lookout Mountain Comprehensive Conservation Study
We work to ensure the national Farm Bill strengthens and supports land trust policies and efforts. We join the Land Trust Alliance in declaring:
We will also continue to advocate for effective legislation, policies and funding that help farmers, ranchers, foresters and other working landowners deliver the many benefits they provide to rural communities and local economies across America.
learn more about the farm billWe work to ensure our elected representatives are expanding the resources needed in the fight against land loss while creating future-forward opportunities for sustained and holistic resource protection. As the Land Trust Alliance states:
Conservation funding programs protect land that offers exceptional public benefits like parks and public lands, productive farms and ranches, healthy watersheds and vital wildlife habitat. The Alliance leads efforts in Washington, D.C., to maintain and increase public funding for land conservation.
learn more about conservation FundingWe join the Land Trust Alliance in advocating for “tax policies that advance land conservation and inoculate conservation donations and tax credits from harm.” This occurs at the state and federal levels. Lookout Mountain Conservancy joins the Land Trust Alliance in stating:
State and federal tax policies can play a large role in advancing land conservation. While tax incentives for voluntary private land conservation have proven to be successful, helping land trusts to protect more than 60 million acres nationwide, they have also led to major policy issues for our community.
Learn more about tax issuesLand trusts are positioned as key leaders in creating and implementing solutions at the local, regional and national levels. Lookout Mountain Conservancy joins the Land Trust Alliance in its declaration:
Land trusts can lead the way in addressing the impacts of a changing climate. Our goal is to promote policies and funding that advance nature-based solutions while supporting the protection, restoration and stewardship of natural and working lands that increase climate resilience.
Learn more about energy solutionsAttainable Housing:
Lookout Mountain Conservancy supports the investment in attainable housing developments to bring about the homes our community needs most. Strategically developing attainable housing within existing urban footprints reduces sprawl, thereby conserving vital green spaces and natural habitats on the urban periphery. This integrated approach prioritizes efficient land use and lessens the need to develop pristine environmental areas. You can visit the websites below to support and learn more about attainable housing in your community.
*Invest Chattanooga
*Chattanooga Land Bank Authority
*PILOT (Payment in Lieu of Taxes)
*HOME (Home Investment Partnership Program)
*CALEB (Chattanoogans in Action for Love, Equality, and Benevolence)
year Lookout Mountain Conservancy.