Join PNTS on August 19th for the first part in our Trail Protection webinar series to deepen your understanding of conservation real estate, building partnerships with land trusts, and how to approach landowners.
Attendees will learn bout how a land acquisition comes together including:
- standard practices for landowner agreements
- fundraising strategies
- real estate due diligence
- tips for partnering between a trail group and a land trust
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Meet the Speaker
J.T. Horn
Senior Director, Trails Initative
Trust for Public Land
J.T. Horn is the Senior Director of the Trails Initiative at Trust for Public Land where he has worked since 2007. He oversees TPL’s national portfolio of trail projects that transform communities to be healthier, more vibrant places to live, work and visit. These include major urban infrastructure projects with budgets in excess of $1 billion to community trails projects designed to help small towns tap into the recreation economy and advance rural prosperity. J.T. has extensive experience in all aspects of land protection and trail creation and has successfully closed some of the largest conservation projects in the Eastern United States. Prior to Trust for Public Land, he worked for 10 years at the Appalachian Trail Conservancy as the New England Director overseeing 730 miles of the Appalachian National Scenic Trail between Connecticut and Maine. Early in his career he worked for the Appalachian Mountain Club in the White Mountains of New Hampshire including stints as a winter caretaker doing avalanche forecasting and search and rescue on Mount Washington and leading the Camp Dodge Volunteer Trail Crew Program. J.T. is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of St. Lawrence University in Canton, NY with a degree in philosophy.