Land Trusts

You hold a portfolio of preserves, conservation easements, and public-access properties scattered across the region — each with its own access rules, easement obligations, monitoring schedule, and stewardship plan. The trail map is the visible piece, but it’s the tail of a much bigger documentation iceberg. Spreadsheets and a shared Dropbox eventually break.

One system for properties open AND closed

Every preserve has a different posture. Some are open year-round, some are members-only, some close for wildlife seasons. TrailsIQ lets you map every property in one database — and decide, per trail, whether it’s:

• Public discoverable on your website’s map and the public Report app.
• Members only visible to logged-in supporters.
• Internal visible only to staff and volunteer stewards on the Field App.

Sensitive habitat stays off the public-facing map. Easement properties with restricted access stay invisible to the casual visitor. Your stewardship plan still tracks them.

Volunteer hours funders actually believe

Every grant application asks the same question — how many volunteer hours, on which property, doing what? TrailsIQ answers without a separate spreadsheet:

• Stewards open the Field App, pick a property, log time + describe the work
• Photos and GPS attach automatically — proof for monitoring reports and easement-violation documentation
• Annual report rolls up stewardship hours by property, by activity type, by month — exportable as a CSV that drops into your annual report or any grant application that asks for stewardship hours by property
• Encroachments, fallen trees, signage failures, and trail erosion all live in one queue tied to the property record, not in someone’s email

Built for the steward-network model

Most land trusts run on a property-steward program — one volunteer, one property, monthly visits. TrailsIQ supports it:

• Assign a steward to a property; they get push-notified when a visitor reports an issue on it
• Monthly monitoring checklists drop into the Field App; sign-off lands in the property’s audit log
• Boundary inspections, parking-lot signage, kiosk content — all cataloged as “infrastructure” attached to the property and tracked on an inspection cadence