How are CLTs different from conservation land trusts?
Both CLTs and conservation land trust control land use for the benefit of people in the future as well as the present, but they tend to be concerned with different types and uses of land. Conservation trusts are primarily concerned with controlling rights to undeveloped land to preserve open space, ecologically fragile or unique environments, wilderness, or productive forest or agricultural land. CLTs, on the other hand, are primarily concerned with acquiring residential use.Some land trusts combine both purposes, preserving some land in a natural state while leasing other land for development.
