Protecting the Meramec River Watershed
By Carl Taylor, GIS Specialist
Ozark Land Trust’s new Meramec River StoryMap explores their work by combining maps, photos, and narrative to show how conservation happens across a watershed.
About Ozark Land Trust
The Ozark Land Trust is part of an exciting and essential conservation movement throughout the United States that now includes well over a thousand land trusts. OLT has dozens of projects protecting more than 33,000 acres of land throughout the Ozark region, in both Missouri and Arkansas.
What is a Land Trust?
A land trust is a nonprofit organization that, as all or part of its mission, actively works to conserve land by undertaking or assisting in land or conservation easement acquisition, by its stewardship of such land or easements, or by encouraging or assisting with good land use practices.
How to Protect Your Land
A Conservation Easement (C.E.) is an agreement in which a property owner limits development and restricts other activities on their land in order to protect its natural resources (forests, wetlands, streams, scenery, etc.).