The Open Space Protection Collaborative [OSPC] is a partnership of five area land trusts and one national conservation organization. Our goal is to provide you, the advisor, with the necessary resources and know-how to advise your conservation-minded clients about conservation planning.

Many advisors skillfully assist individuals, small businesses and corporations on financial, taxation, and estate matters. But few have the tools they need to include conservation planning in their portfolio of services.



Conservation planning can make an enormous difference in the lives of your landholding clients – in estate planning, tax strategy, and perhaps most importantly of all, peace of mind. You are the gatekeeper

A land trust is a private, nonprofit conservation organization formed to protect natural resources such as forests, river watersheds, and natural areas where wildlife and plants thrive. Some trusts also work to protect resources with historic or cultural significance. Land trusts accept donations of land and, more often, of conservation easements. In some cases, they are able to purchase land or easements. The conservation easement places protective restrictions on future uses of land, and the land trust accepts responsibility to enforce those protections forever, even when the ownership of the land changes.