Join Us - Land Trust of the Eastern Panhandle

Join Us Today and Shape the Future of Our Region

“Nature is not a place to visit. It is home.” — Gary Snyder

The Land Trust of the Eastern Panhandle of West Virginia operates under a small budget. Much of the work of the Land Trust is done by our volunteer Board members. To continue increasing public awareness of the benefits of conservation easements, to close additional easements, and to support operational expenses, including baseline documentation and insurance, the Land Trust of the Eastern Panhandle relies on donor financial support.

Please consider a gift of any amount to the Land Trust of the Eastern Panhandle. We are a registered 501(c)(3) non-profit organization and your gift is fully tax deductible.

Honor and Memory Donations – Please join the Land Trust and those donors listed here in honoring and remembering those highlighted here:

2022 Legacy Fund Donors:
Margaret Biggs – Charles and Margaret Biggs established the 2nd Easement that the Land Trust held in 1998.
Wayne Braunstein and Dannie Wall – Long-time friends and dedicated donors of the Land Trust.
Linda Benedict Colvin – In Honor and Loving Memory of Dr. Mark Benedict.
Richard Conard – A long-time friend of the Land Trust and dedicated donor for over two decades.
Ron and Cindy Gunderson – The Gundersons provided the first donation to the Legacy Fund for the Matching Fund Challenge.
Don and Kathryn Henry – Long-time friends and dedicated donors of the Land Trust.
Georgia Jeppesen and Skylar Benedict – In Honor of the Founders of the Land Trust of the Eastern Panhandle.
Robert H. Poole – A long-time friend and dedicated donor to the Land Trust for over a decade.
Bonnie and Bill Stubblefield – In Honor and Memory of the Founders of the Land Trust and the first three Conservation Easement Holders.
Michael and Susan Whalton – In Honor of the “Land, the Life It Supports, and All the People Who Are Trying to Save It”.
Martha S. White – In Honor and Memory of Pep White and Derek White.
2022 Operations/General Fund Donor
Eldon and Virginia Winston – In memory of Jim Carey.

Donate Directly to the LTEP Operating Fund

Since 1995 The Land Trust of the Eastern Panhandle has worked to protect important cultural, historic and ecological terrain in Jefferson, Berkeley and Morgan Counties. On average over 2 easements are closed per year and the acreage added averages just over 250 acres per year. As of 2020, we have 50 easements protecting over 4,800 acres. We are proud of all that the Land Trust of the Eastern Panhandle has accomplished thus far. We are committed to a future in which our community unites even more strongly to ensure the protection of our most fundamental gifts – our land and our water.

LTEP Operating Fund donations (click button below)

OR send your gift directly to us:

The Land Trust of the Eastern Panhandle, P.O. Box 2240, Martinsburg, WV 25402-2240.

Please indicate on the check’s memo field if your gift is to support the Land Trust’s Operating Fund.

Donate Directly to the LTEP Legacy Fund

To keep and enhance our promise of land protection FOREVER, and in honor of our 25th anniversary in 2020, we proudly announce the establishment of a Legacy Fund with the Eastern West Virginia Community Foundation to provide financial support in perpetuity to protect and grow conservation easements.

The purpose of the Fund is to support and offset costs associated with influencing, establishing, and maintaining conservation easements in Berkeley, Jefferson, and Morgan Counties. We intend, with the help of our Eastern West Virginia Community Foundation, to grow the Legacy Fund into a source of sustainable revenue that will allow the Land Trust to help cover these costs. We are ever-grateful to the landowners whose vision and love of their land made them reach out to protect their land, and shape the future of our landscape. It is our responsibility as a community to continue to gift forward by preserving and protecting our landscape for future generations that they may value and enjoy the beauty and sustainable resources, as we do.

LTEP Legacy Fund donations (click button below)

OR send your gift directly to us:

The Land Trust of the Eastern Panhandle, P.O. Box 2240, Martinsburg, WV 25402-2240.

Please indicate on the check’s memo field if your gift is to support the Land Trust’s Legacy Fund. Contributions to the Land Trust of the Eastern Panhandle Legacy Fund can also be sent to:

The Eastern West Virginia Community Foundation, 229 E. Martin St. Suite 4, Martinsburg, WV 25401.