MISSION AND VISION
Our Mission: to preserve the beauty, health, and diversity of southern Indiana’s natural landscape through strategic land conservation and environmental education.
Our Vision: Sycamore Land Trust envisions a future in which southern Indiana has diverse and abundant habitat for native plants and animals, as well as clean air and water, working lands that are productive and sustainable, and people who embrace the connection between a healthy environment and our quality of life.
These statements were written by the staff and board of directors in 2017.
What We Do
We protect land through ownership or holding conservation easements to limit harmful uses while allowing land to remain in private ownership. In addition to owning land, we also steward the land by managing restoration projects.
Sycamore also operates an Environmental Education program that connects people of all ages to nature, including more than 6,800 people in 2018.
In 2019, Sycamore became an accredited land trust through the Land Trust Accreditation Commission. Accreditation acknowledges the highest level of achievement in transparency, accountability, and longevity for land trusts across North America. We are also a Guidestar Gold nonprofit.
