Our Strategic Plan

Legacy Land Trust and its Board of Directors and staff have adopted a vision and key focus areas for the organization. The vision of the strategic plan is for the Houston area to retain its beauty, wildlife, and rural qualities; open lands along river and stream corridors will be protected; LLT will have sufficient funding and staff; and the community will know about LLT and celebrate and support land conservation.

The key focus areas of the current strategic plan are to:

1.	Protect important lands. These lands currently include:
a. The Spring Creek Greenway Corridor, the green liquid boundary that separates Harris and Montgomery counties. This critical open area is home to numerous mammals and supplies habitat for bird species which need the resting grounds on their migratory flights. Spring Creek is a "navigable" water body of at least 30’ wide throughout most of its winding corridor all the way to the San Jacinto River – another focus area for LLT. This area is also important as it provides an opportunity for low-impact use in the form of canoeing, kayaking, and hiking trails – a nature area so close to downtown Houston but what feels like miles away. b. Washington County. This county, despite its still mostly rural nature, is a highly fragmented county due to much of the land being previously subdivided for cotton and cattle uses. But the rolling hill beauty of this area is facing rapidly expanding "mini-ranchetting", even further subdividing the tracts. c. Cypress Creek corridor in NW Harris County and Clear Creek corridor in southern Harris County. d. All large, contiguous tracts in the 13-county region where we can work with adjacent landowners to provide true wildlife habitat and flood buffer corridors for downstream residents.
2.	Raise money for operations, endowment and the purchase of development rights.
3.	Increase support by the local population.
4.	Continue to be recognized land conservation experts in the Houston area.

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