Examines a variety of conservation organisations in the United States built on or close to trust principles, some government creations, some private, some combinations of the two, to explain how conservation trusts are created and how they work.
Sally K. Fairfax is professor of natural resource policy, administration, and law at the University of California, Berkeley, and coauthor of State Trust Lands: History, Management, and Sustainable Use, also published by Kansas. Darla Guenzler is associate director of the Bay Area Open Space Council.