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The
K/RLT Board and Staff
work toward the following objectives:
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Perform, support, and encourage the
protection and restoration of
open spaces, natural areas, historic and cultural sites.
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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.
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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
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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.
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