As part of Stewarding Native Lands’ Advancing Tribal Conservation Easements funding opportunity, Thomas Linzey, senior attorney with the Center for Democratic and Environmental Rights, will present on the concept of property easements, how conservation easements are being used in “land back” arrangements, and how “rights of nature” easements are being used in creative new land ownership arrangements.
Register here for the webinar to learn more about innovative approaches to conservation easements and Stewarding Native Lands’ Advancing Tribal Conservation Easements funding opportunity.
Wednesday, June 25, 2025, at 11 am Mountain Time. Register here.
About the Speaker
Thomas Linzey serves as senior legal counsel for the Center for Democratic and Environmental Rights (centerforenvironmentalrights.org). He is widely recognized as the founder of the contemporary “community rights” and “rights of nature” movements that have resulted in the adoption of several hundred laws across the United States and around the world.
Linzey is a cum laude graduate of Widener Law School, a three-time recipient of the law school’s public interest law award, and a former finalist for the Ford Foundation’s Leadership for a Changing World Award. He is the author of On Community Civil Disobedience in the Name of Sustainability and other books, and his work has been featured in the New York Times, The New Yorker, Los Angeles Times, Mother Jones, and The Nation. He has been named one of Forbes’ “Top Ten Revolutionaries,” and one of the top 400 environmentalists of the last 200 years in American Environmental Leaders. Linzey lives in Spokane, Washington.
