Sylvia Bates
Director of Standards & Educational Services, Land Trust Alliance
Sylvia is the director of standards and educational services for the Land Trust Alliance, the voice of the land trust community in the United States, and lives in New Hampshire. Since 2006, she has led the Alliance’s work on Land Trust Standards and Practices, the ethical and technical guidelines for the responsible operation of a land trust, and other cutting-edge issues related to conservation defense and conservation easement permanence. She is also the Alliance’s liaison to the international land trust community and serves on the ILCN steering committee. She has worked in the land conservation field since 1987, most recently as an independent consultant and real estate broker, providing assistance to land trusts, landowners and public agencies on land conservation projects, easement stewardship and organizational development. She was formerly the director of land protection for the Society for the Protection of New Hampshire Forests. Sylvia has a degree in environmental biology from Yale University and has done graduate work at the Yale School of Forestry.
