Northeast Wisconsin Land Trust is a private, non-profit, member supported land conservation organization. We are dedicated to preserving the special natural places that contribute to our natural heritage and sustain our quality of life.

How does Northeast Wisconsin Land Trust protect land?

• We work with landowners to create voluntary conservation agreements that protect special places forever
• We specialize in permanent conservation agreements that keep land in private ownership and prevent or limit future development
• By accepting full ownership of some lands we're creating preserves for all to enjoy

We've permanently protected over 3,500 acres of land on 32 conservancies and 4 publicly accessible preserves since our founding in 1996. Your membership helps us to continue the preservation of northeast Wisconsin's natural heritage and our way of life!

Land trusts are private, non-profit organizations established to protect land and water resources for public benefit. They are community institutions that make a community a great place to live and promote the health of the region. They also help sustain outdoor traditions that are part of our cultural heritage.

Land trusts protect land from uses that harm wildlife habitats, scenic landscapes or open spaces — land with natural, recreational, scenic, historic or productive value to their communities.

Today there are more than 1,500 local and regional land trusts across the nation protecting more than 9 million acres of farmland, wetlands, ranches, forests, watersheds, river corridors, and other land types as well as several national land trusts that have protected millions more acres. 

"It is our duty to conserve land for the future and not destroy it for our own purposes".

Pete Oberhauser, landowner