Chattowah Open Land Trust Board of Directors

Stephen A. Stutts, President
Rome, Georgia

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Mark Drummond
Birmingham, Alabama

Charles B. "Chop" Evans
Fort Valley, Georgia

James M. Floyd, Jr.
Hinesville, Georgia

Thomas L. Hamby
Birmingham, Alabama

Ralph Jordan, Jr.
Norris, Tennessee

Kenwood C. Nichols, Vice-President
Selma, Alabama

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Sally Morgens
Atlanta, Georgia

Laura Richards
Carrollton, Georgia 

Thomas M. Reed
Athens, Georgia

John C. Sawyer
Atlanta, Georgia

John Turner
Columbus, Georgia

Organizational Structure/Area of Operation

The Alabama Land Trust, Inc., and Georgia Land Trust, Inc., operate at the direction of the Board of Directors of the Chattowah Open Land Trust. The organizations maintain separate staff that serve their areas of operation, but work together to advance the common goals of the organization.

We currently operate statewide throughout both Alabama and Georgia and are also licensed to operate in and hold easements in North Carolina, Tennessee and Mississippi.

If you are in the states of Alabama and Georgia and need help with a conservation easement or advisement on pursuing land protection, please contact us. We or one of our local land trust partners can help you with your conservation easement.

Standards & Practices

We operate in accordance with Standards & Practices promulgated by the Land Trust Alliance (LTA). Our adherence to the Standards and Practices ensures that you will receive ethical, professional advisement and that our operations are undertaken in accordance with the most recent best management practices from LTA and the various governmental entities that have a say in the rules governing conservation easements.

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LTA's Standards & Practices

Strategic Plan

Organizationally, we have been responding to the loss of landscapes for over fifteen years. We have always had focus areas—working lands, riparian corridors, lands linking other protected lands. In 2006, through a facilitated process, we created an explicitly stated strategic plan to guide our efforts in those focus areas.

The plan was intended to guide our activities through 2011. Its principal goals were to achieve a target acreage of 125,000 acres by the end of 2010 and to become known as the land trust of choice for landowners (see The Landowners Land Trust). Having passed 165,000 acres in 2009, in large measure because of the network of referrals we receive from landowners with whom we have worked, we are now working on a new strategic guide to provide a framework for our activities in the near future.

We will continue our work on our traditional focus areas and work to evolve successful strategies to deal with such evolving issues as ensuring permanency in our land protection, providing continued high levels of monitoring and stewardship, and working to create a stable funding source for our operations.