It has been a good year for this landtrust and a great year for the landtrusts across America. We have had some success this year. This newsletter will interest you. There are around 1500 other land trusts in the nation. According to the National Land Trust census, over the last five years local land trusts have protected over 5.8 million acres. With our new Hilltop Farm Nature Preserve, we are now protecting 270 acres of Indiana. This coming year, OHC is planning to make our properties easier to visit. We could use your help when we do the fieldwork. We want to lay out some simple trails and make improvements to help you use and enjoy your woods and fields. E-mail addresses Do you have one? Our records have e-mail addresses for less than one in four of our members. For OHC it would be so much faster and cheaper to talk to you if we can reach most of our friends electronically. It takes a couple of weeks to get a letter written, printed and mailed. Newsletters take a couple of months and cost over a dollar apiece to get into your hands. It may be for good reason that you did not include your email address with your application. Let us be clear, your personal information, address and email address will never be given to others to use. There have been times when we would have really liked to get some breaking news to you. With e-mail, one person in one evening could have gotten the word out. Donation deductibility One result of Hurricane Katrina is that Congress has greatly expanded the deductibility of non-cash donations. Until the end of 2007, non-cash donations are in some cases deductible up to 100 percent and the period of carryover upped to fifteen years. This was done to help Katrina victims and as an experiment to see how important tax savings are to land protection transactions. If you have plans to donate non-cash items to any non-profit, this may be the year to do it. I would like to note the retirement from the board of Chris Black. He and before him, his wife Beth, have been great workers for the cause. I had to ask Chris to take on some heavy burdens and he did them well. Any of you who know him or meet him in the future know that he is the best sort of man.

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