The Land Trust Alliance of British Columbia

Carol Horne pointed me to The Land Trust Alliance of British Columbia as an example of how the "land trust system" is working elsewhere.

There's also a report on their website [PDF] on the "National Ecogift Monitoring Survey" the introduction to which says:

Through the design and implementation of a survey focused on Canada’s land trust community, questions related to the common practices, methods, and extent of monitoring activities were addressed. Of primary concern were the monitoring practices related to properties donated to land trusts through Environment Canada’s Ecological Gifts program. The goals of this survey were to determine what protocols and methods are currently being used by Canada’s land trust community; if these methods vary between the Ecological Gifts (Ecogifts) and non-Ecogift properties; and to produce a “roadmap” for the design, implementation and adoption of standards related to Ecogift monitoring that would satisfy both Environment Canada and the land trust community as a whole.