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  We can save one more stretch of open coastline in Carpinteria! Now through December 31, 2016, your donation of $10 or more will be matched by $100! Click here to learn more and donate now! Click here for press release distributed June 15, 2016. For more than 50 years, the residents of the South Coast have...

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Tina and Paul McEnroe worked closely with the Land Trust in the early 2000s to complete an agricultural easement for their 1,007-acre Rancho La Purisma, located in the Purisima Hills north of Buellton. Both Paul and Tina had direct experience with land conservation and knew the importance of conserving this special place. Many things make Rancho...

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Exciting news in the latest edition of The Land!

The Land Trust for Santa Barbara County and The Trust for Public Land today protected the 780-acre Jordan property, a Lompoc Valley farm that dates to shortly after California became a state. The property will be permanently protected from future residential development by an agricultural conservation easement, the first in the agriculturally rich Lompoc Valley....

The Land Trust for Santa Barbara County announced today that its nearly 24,000-acre portfolio of protected natural resources and agricultural countryside now includes the 100-acre Big Bend Ranch, donated by Judy and Jack Stapelmann. Located in the El Jaro Creek watershed southeast of Lompoc, Big Bend cradles riparian habitat, oak woodland, and leased portions in...