To develop this document, over 35 land trust and agency representatives were interviewed and some also made presentations as part of CCLT’s Regional Stewardship Symposium in March 2017. Each had stories to tell about collaborative stewardship, observations on its benefits and challenges, and advice on starting and sustaining a collaboration. These stories and words of wisdom have been distilled into fourteen lessons learned that land trusts can apply to strengthen existing collaborations and promote new ones in order to improve land management and stewardship outcomes.