Land Protection and Stewardship

GTA is a cooperating land trust with Maryland Environmental Trust and a Land Trust Member of the Land Trust Alliance, and is currently applying for Land Trust Accreditation. We can serve as the long-term steward for restoration and easement properties and have experience in doing so with properties and easements. In addition, we have experience in acting as a short-term steward of properties or easements being transitioned to public agency ownership. Click on any of the projects below to learn more about some of our current easements.

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Piscataway Headwaters Preserve

GTA stewards a 63-acre portion of the larger Walton Foundation property (126 acres) that is adjacent to and within the 100-year floodplain of Piscataway Creek near its headwaters in Prince George’s County, MD. 

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Mattawoman Headwaters Preserve

GreenTrust Alliance is the Bank Sponsor and long-term steward for the Mattawoman Creek Mitigation Site (MCMS) located in Charles County, Maryland. A total of 80.9 acres of the property are permanently protected in the MCMS conservation easement.

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Flat Swamp Preserve

This 386-acre project site in North Carolina restored the site’s former hydrology and forest vegetation. These restored forested wetlands now provide a significant improvement to the water quality, biodiversity and habitat of this degraded section of the Middle Neuse River Watershed.