Santa Barbara Land Trust Events + News
Conservation Groups Raise Millions to Purchase Carpinteria Bluffs Property
Bluffs III fundraising wraps ahead of schedule
Carpinteria Bluffs Permanently Preserved
Carpinteria Bluffs III awarded $144K CREF grant
The Santa Barbara County Board of Supervisors unanimously approved a $144,750 Coastal Resource Enhancement Fund (CREF) grant to the City of Carpinteria towards the acquisition of the Carpinteria Bluffs III property on June 20. The grant brings Bluffs III fundraising…
Question + Answer with Arturo Tello, Carp Bluffs Artist-turned-advocate
Land Trust Newsletter Spring 2017
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Our Coastline, OAK Group Exhibit
Circling back to their original benefit show decades ago, The Oak Group once again contributes to saving more of the Carpinteria bluffs with a benefit art exhibit, “Coastline,” which is online through April 30, 2017. Guest artists Kevin Gleason, Kaaren…
State Grant Nearly Completes Bluffs III Fundraising
Bluffs III recently received a $450,000 windfall from the California Transportation Commission in the form of an Environmental Enhancement and Mitigation Program grant. The grant nearly completes fundraising for the 21-acre bluff top property located on the east end of…
Land Trust Moves Closer to Paying Off Carp Bluffs
The Land Trust for Santa Barbara County has moved $450,000 closer to paying off its purchase of 21 undeveloped oceanfront acres in Carpinteria that had long been eyeballed by hotel and resort developers. With a $3 million down payment last…
Carp Bluffs III
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…
Land Trust Newsletter Fall 2016
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Living History at La Purisima Ranch with Paul & Tina McEnroe
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…
Preservation Groups Purchase 21 Acres of Carpinteria Bluffs
Jordan Brothers Farms
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…
100-Acre Big Bend Ranch Donated to Land Trust
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…
Lines Cast at Fifth Annual No-Motor Sportfishing Tournament Saturday, Nov. 7
The Sportfishing Conservancy along with the Carpinteria and Santa Barbara sportfishing clubs will kick off the fifth annual no-motor fishing contest from Danny’s Deli in Carpinteria beginning at 6 a.m. Saturday, Nov. 7, 2015. The idea behind the no-motor rule is two-fold: first…
First Land Conservation Bank Established in SB County
Franklin Trail Phase One Construction – Nearing Completion
Franklin Trail: Respect Private Property
Ocean Meadows Golf Club to be Restored to Wetlands
After a four-year effort to raise $7 million in federal, state and local funds to buy the property, the Trust for Public Land acquired 63.9 acres of the Ocean Meadows Golf Club. The Land Trust for Santa Barbara County, the…