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Land Acquisition Professionals

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To explore a career with land trusts, check your local library for land trust publications like the Land Trust Alliance's book Conservancy: The Land Trust Movement in America. You can also try contacting the large national land trust organizations for career information, volunteer opportunities and internships, publications, and membership. The large national organizations should also be able to provide you with the names of local groups with volunteer opportunities.

Participate in information interviews with land acquisition professionals. In such an interview—which can be conducted in-person, on the phone, or through video-conferencing technology—you will get the opportunity to ask land acquisition professionals about their job duties, work environment, likes and dislikes about their careers, educational training, and other topics that will help you to learn more about the field. Ask your school counselor or a teacher to help you set up information interviews. Perhaps you could even job-shadow a land acquisition professional to learn even more about the field.

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