Kenosha/Racine Land Trust: About Us

Kenosha/Racine Land Trust

Protect, Preserve and Restore Southeastern Wisconsin's Great and Beautiful Landscape!

"When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world." John Muir

About Us

The K/RLT Board and Staff work toward the following objectives: Perform, support, and encourage the protection and restoration of open spaces, natural areas, historic and cultural sites. Raise funds and encourage public and private funding for open space protection. Build public awareness of and support for local open space protection. Build bridges with other community organizations seeking to preserve for future generations reminders of what we treasure about southeastern Wisconsin. Support and assist in the development and implementation of long-range community land use planning.		Executive Director Therese Probst Current Board of Directors of K/RLT Charles Haubrich, President Dan Grosse, Vice-President Wally Ott, Treasurer Betsy Georg, Secretary Colleen Murphy-Fisch, Director Nick Spittlemeister, Director Nancy Pierce, Director Betty Adelman, Director Ron Rasmussen, Director Sarah Wright, Director Ecological Consultant Nan Calvert Current Committees Upper Des Plaines River Committee Outreach and Marketing Committee Land Protecting Committee Finance Committee

Wisconsin is home to more than 50 active land trusts that protect and manage almost 80,000 acres of wildlife habitat, including land with scenic, recreational, agricultural, cultural or historic value. Some land trusts do not own land but hold conservation easements and monitor the conservation restrictions they helped put in place. Dedicated individuals, most of them volunteers, are actively involved in the preservation and maintenance of open space and natural areas. Some land trusts are well-known and work throughout the world. Local land trusts have protected more than 6.2 million acres within the United States. However, an area roughly twice the size of Connecticut, 2 million acres of natural lands, are lost to development each year according to the Land Trust Alliance.

The Kenosha/Racine Land Trust, Inc., is a 501(c)3 non-profit, charitable organization that was formed in 1993 by a group of Kenosha and Racine county citizens concerned about the loss of natural areas. The natural heritage of Southeast Wisconsin is disappearing and that is why the Kenosha/Racine Land Trust aims to protect open space and natural areas in Kenosha and Racine counties for the benefit of current and future generations through identifying and prioritizing the most critical resources left in Southeastern Wisconsin. K/RLT does not currently do not own land, but hold easements and monitors the conservation restrictions within them.

Land trusts carry out their work protecting natural areas through funding from membership dues, donations and federal/state/local grants.