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

Sycamore is an nonprofit conservation organization founded in 1990. We protect land by owning and caring for nature preserves, and by holding conservation easements that protect privately-owned properties. Stewardship of our nature preserves includes restoration projects to improve natural habitat, and building and maintaining trails for free public use.

As of July 2019, Sycamore has protected 106 properties totaling 9,777 acres in southern Indiana.

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.