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EALT Board Ratifies Policies at Retreat

July 31, 2009

The Edmonton and Area Land Trust’s Board of Directors held a retreat in July, and worked on a number of areas:

  1. Ratifying policies for EALT
  2. Discussing an expanded Board of Directors as well as adding an Advisory Group
  3. Contributing to this year’s Work Planning priorities
  4. Taking EALT’s new information kits to distribute to interested individuals and businesses

The work the Board accomplished at this day-long event was extremely successful. Some of the significant outputs are:

EALT Policies
Although EALT has been operating on the basis of draft policies, the Board ratified the following policies. These are available below:

  • EALT Land Securement Strategy: This document discusses why regional conservation is important, how EALT decides which lands to protect, how EALT works to protect natural features, EALT priorities for project selection, project selection criteria, and rationale for not pursuing a project
  • EALT Public Members Policy: This describes various categories of member, including volunteer, supporting, honorary, and associate members
  • EALT Financial Segregation of Duties Policy: This describes how EALT has an approved process in place to deal with donations, and ensure that our fiscal responsibilities are fulfilled

Information Kits
The EALT information kits use visuals for easy review, and are available below:

  • Where do we Work: this map shows the significant natural areas in the region, considered provincially or nationally important. However, EALT understand that there are very many more sites of local or regional significance which are not identified, and that we need to secure these and to create linkages among all these areas
  • Conservation Priorities: particularly properties with lakes and rivers, prairie remnants, unique topographical features, major corridors or linkages, large woodlands, important cultural sites, or areas within or adjacent to natural core and linkage areas. However, EALT is aware that smaller patches of wild land form stepping stones between larger sites, and considers them of value
  • How Stewardship is Accomplished: via accepting funds, land donations, or conservation easements; stewarding lands with volunteers, educational outreach, and partnershipping to leverage scarce resources
  • Who is Involved: the founding partners of EALT are described, as well as the many types of partners of the land trust

Anyone interested in obtaining hard copies of these information packages may phone EALT at 780 483–7578, or pick them up at 9910–103 Street, Edmonton.

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