Why did KLA create a land trust?
KLA leaders in the Flint Hills expressed interest in forming a land trust in 2001 to provide a rancher/landowner-governed organization to assist landowners who are considering conservation easements on their working ranchlands. The ranchers and landowners involved in forming the RTK believe the vast acres of open-spaced ranch lands of Kansas will be under more intense developmental pressure in the future. These leaders believed many landowners would prefer voluntary conservation easements as an economic alternative to development, especially if the easements could be held and administered by a qualified and competent agricultural land trust.
