Land Trust Alliance President Andrew Bowman shared some Alliance key policy and funding thoughts on Oct. 4 with a group of Montana Association of Land Trusts members during a meeting at Gallatin Valley Land Trust in Bozeman. In addition to a brief tour of Story Mill Community Park, Andrew visited with Montana land trust officials on a wide range of issues including climate change/carbon sequestration and related funding opportunities; Farm Bill implementation and the Alliance’s collaboration with the NRCS, which will include new Alliance staffing positions; the importance of the Alliance regional offices and leadership training for land trust personnel; and syndication of conservation easement tax benefits. Andrew said passage of legislation to stop syndication of conservation easement tax benefits is a top Alliance legislative priority.