The Land Trust Accreditation Commission occasionally publishes Guidance Documents to clarify how the Commission will evaluate a land trust's compliance with indicator practices drawn from Land Trust Standards and Practices. These documents may be amended from time to time. Guidance Documents are intended to complement information provided by the Land Trust Alliance on how to implement the practices that can be found at http://learningcenter.lta.org.*

• Required Policies for Accreditation: Related to Indicator Practices 4A, 9G, 11E, 11I, and 3F (Note that minor clarifications were made in June 2010 related to the policy required for practice 4A.)
• 6D. Financial Review or Audit Updated September 2011!
  
• 9G. Recordkeeping
• 9H. Title Investigation and Subordination New!
• 9J. Purchasing Land - Independent Appraisals - Pursuant to Indicator Practice
• 10B. Appraisals (Note that minor clarifications were made in November 2010.) 
• 11A. Funding Easement Stewardship and 12A. Funding Land Stewardship
• 11B. Baseline Documentation Report (Note that minor clarifications were made in November2010.)
• 11C. Easement Monitoring (Note that minor clarifications were made in June 2010.)
• 12C. Land Management (Note that minor clarifications were made in July 2010.)

* The preamble of each Guidance Document was updated in September 2011 to conform to this statement.