The Texas Land Trust Council (TLTC) is a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization that builds and supports a strong, active coalition of more than 30 organizations working to conserve the lands and waters of Texas. We serve as a powerful voice for conservation to protect drinking water, Texas’ iconic wildlife, and our rich natural and cultural heritage. Together and in partnership with private landowners and citizens, we work to ensure that the Texas landscape – rich in history, natural resources, breathtaking views and recreational opportunities – can be left intact for all of us today and for the future. The Texas Land Trust Council was formed in the late 1990s in partnership with the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department to serve as a support association for all land trusts in Texas. Today, TLTC is an independent nonprofit organization that continues its work to advance and sustain the conservation efforts of Texas land trusts. Land trusts are charitable organizations whose mission is land and water conservation. Currently, there are more than 30 land trusts working throughout Texas that have protected over 1.7 million acres of farms, ranches, wetlands, wildlife habitat, urban parks, forests, watersheds, coastlines and river corridors. Land Trusts can help landowners meet their long-term land use goals—and protect their land legacy—through a variety of land protection tools, such as conservation easements. Land trusts offer a nonprofit, voluntary solution for land conservation that does not rely on government tax dollars or government programs to help protect the land.