MADISON, Wis. – Gathering Waters Conservancy today announced that it has received a $3,000 grant from the Plum Creek Foundation to help fund the 2010 Wisconsin Land Trust Retreat.
The 2010 Wisconsin Land Trust Retreat will be the 9th meeting designed exclusively for Wisconsin’s land conservation leadership. The retreat is a two-day meeting focusing on peer-to-peer education and technical training for the staff and board of Wisconsin’s non-profit land conservation organizations.
“To make the retreat accessible to even all-volunteer land trusts, Gathering Waters strives to offer the meeting at no cost to participants,” said Michael Strigel, executive director. “We are grateful to the Plum Creek Foundation for its donation and look forward to empowering these local groups and ensuring these funds benefit not only the environment, but the citizens of this region who are working to protect and steward their local treasures.”
Gathering Waters Conservancy’s mission is to help land trusts, landowners and communities protect the places that make Wisconsin special. The organization’s goal is to increase the amount of protected land in the state through private, voluntary action. The Conservancy is a statewide service center for Wisconsin’s land trust community and builds the capacity of the state’s private, non-profit conservation organizations through consulting, publication education and policy advocacy.
The mission of the Plum Creek Foundation is to provide philanthropic contributions to support and improve the general welfare of life in the communities that Plum Creek serves. The Foundation board meets quarterly to review applications submitted from organizations in the company’s operating communities. Visit the Community Involvement page on Plum Creek’s Web site at http://www.plumcreek.com to download an application.
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Gathering Waters Conservancy helps people protect Wisconsin’s special places by strengthening Wisconsin land trusts. A statewide resource center for land conservation, Gathering Waters is non-profit and non-partisan. We believe that land trusts play a vital and unique role as stewards of Wisconsin’s natural places. Our mission is to help them succeed. For more information visit http://gatheringwaters.org.
Plum Creek is the largest and most geographically diverse private landowner in the nation with approximately 7 million acres of timberlands in major timber producing regions of the United States and wood products manufacturing facilities in the Northwest. For more information, visit http://www.plumcreek.com/wisconsin.
