Articles and publications featuring bird conservation and land trusts will be posted here, as they become available.
Kitsap Daily News: “Kitsap organizations assessing forest health by recording birds”Article by Molly Hetherwick, Kitsap News Group. Published December 23, 2025, by Kitsap Daily News.
- NPR’s All Things Considered: “Birds Rating Habitat”
Broadcast December 2, 2025, on NPR’s All Things Considered. Features the Listen Up Collaborative, one of six Conservation Collaboratives funded by the Land Trust Bird Conservation Initiative.
- Great Peninsula Conservancy: “The Listen Up Collaborative is Featured in the New York Times”
Published November 24, 2025, on Great Peninsula Conservancy blog. Highlights a story about the Listen Up Collaborative in the New York Times’ “50 States, 50 Fixes” series. The Listen Up Collaborative is one of six Conservation Collaboratives funded by the Land Trust Bird Conservation Initiative.
- Jefferson Land Trust: “Listen Up Collaborative and Jefferson Land Trust Featured in the New York Times!”
Published November 20, 2025, on Jefferson Land Trust blog. Highlights a story about the Listen Up Collaborative in the New York Times’ “50 States, 50 Fixes” series. The Listen Up Collaborative is one of six Conservation Collaboratives funded by the Land Trust Bird Conservation Initiative.
- Connecticut State of the Birds: “Collaborative Conservation: Engaging Communities through Birds”
Article by Katherine Blake (Highstead), Sara Barker (Cornell Lab), and Connie Manes (Kent Land Trust). Published November 7, 2025, in Connecticut State of the Birds (pp. 4–7).
- Mount Grace Land Conservation Trust: “The Fruits of Our Labor”
Article by Matt Dibona. Published October 6, 2025 on Mount Grace Land Conservation Trust blog. Highlights a 2023 small grant project.
- The Natural Farmer: “Bringing Grassland Birds Back One Field at a Time”
Article by Sara Barker and Meg Schader, Land Trust Bird Conservation Initiative. Published September 2025 in The Natural Farmer, the magazine of the Northeast Organic Farming Association (pp. 28–29).
- Eastern Shore Land Conservancy: “Burning for Birds”
Published September 22, 2025, on Eastern Shore Land Conservancy blog.
- Aiken Land Conservancy: “Where There’s Smoke There’s…Birds?!”
Article about Burning for Birds published fall 2025 in Aiken Land Conservancy Conservation Chronicle (p. 6).
- Great Peninsula Conservancy: “Listen Up Collaborative Keeps Growing into 2025 and Beyond”
Published August 12, 2025, on Great Peninsula Conservancy blog.
- Land Trust Alliance: “Birds are helping Sonoma Land Trust and partners reduce the frequency and severity of wildfires”
Article by Meg Schader, Land Trust Initiative. Published July 31, 2025, on Land Trust Alliance blog.
- Jefferson Land Trust: “Listen Up Collaborative Awarded Cornell Grant to Support Habitat Stewardship and Restoration”
Published July 24, 2025, on Jefferson Land Trust blog.
