About Conservation Easement Steward

The type of volunteer steward has the highest level of responsibility. You will steward a few of OLT's 100+ conservation easements. You are granted access to the private land protected with an easement and will interface with the land owner. Our relationships with easement donors are extremely important; you will need to represent OLT well during your monitoring visits. Protecting lands with easements and stewarding those properties is the core of what we do - you can be an integral part of it. Tasks include: working with the Stewardship Manager to schedule monitoring visits you are responsible for, communicating with the landowner if he/she wishes to accompany you on the visit, checking all GPS way points and property boundaries, documenting and photographing any significant changes, alerting Stewardship Manager of any landowner plans to build in allowed areas, conduct a sustainable timber harvest, etc., and completing and filing an annual easement monitoring report with OLT.

Application Process

Please contact Marcie Foster, stewardship manager, to get started! These opportunities will fall between April and October on our various easement properties.