Current Projects

Three current Land Trust conservation projects will conserve some of our most beautiful ranch and farm land permanently to natural and agricultural use.

Conservation agreements with private landowners will protect high priority wildlife corridors, watersheds and scenic resources on private ranches and farms, including regionally rare Blue and Valley oak woodland, with creeks and ponds that sustain rare and endangered plants and animals.

Under conservation easements granted in perpetuity to the Land Trust, present and future owners are bound to guard the scenic beauty, wildlife resources, and agricultural value of the Gaviota Coast and historic ranch lands in Santa Ynez Valley and Los Alamos Valley.

The Land Trust will build new partnerships with landowners, with local, state and national conservation groups, and with public and private grant agencies that provide grants and tax incentives for voluntary land conservation. Each of these conservation projects requires the Land Trust and its partners to raise public grants and private donations to purchase the proposed conservation easements.