2024 by the numbers: Celebrating a year of wilderness wins

As 2024 comes to a close, we’re celebrating another year of successful projects protecting the wilderness you love across the country.

This year we protected 42 properties totaling 2,073 acres from Alaska to Virginia. With the threat of development removed, they will remain open for wildlife to roam, resilient habitats to thrive, and people from all walks of life to explore. The monetary value of these lands is over $37 million, but the real value that they bring to our lives through clean air and water, solitude, and inspiration is so much greater. In this fast-changing world, their intrinsic value surpasses any dollar amount.

So we celebrate these end-of-year accomplishments with the pride of a job well done, and as a reflection of the collective impact of our dedicated community of partners and supporters. But we also reflect on them knowing that their totals fall short in telling the real story of our work. That story is one of long days spent in the field, in landscapes from desert to high alpine, along rivers and coast, through conditions from sunny blue skies to pouring rain and snow. It’s the story of a relationship built with a landowner over 20 years that leads to them finally choosing a path of conservation for the land they and their family have loved for generations. And it’s a story that’s not just ours, but shared by dozens of partners, from local organizations to tribes to federal agencies, and hundreds of generous supporters from around the country.

When you give to the Trust you support not just the land acquisitions and transfers, but all the work that leads to them: the field work and relationship building, the habitat restoration and helping to guide agency policy, the title work and appraisals. It is only with your support that we can share these end-of-year accomplishments.

If you haven’t yet donated, please consider making a gift before the end of 2024.