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July 11, 2025- Tim is the Senior Director of Development at the California Polytechnic State University’s College of Agriculture, Food and Environmental Sciences. He is an experienced leader in nonprofit and higher education fundraising, land conservation, project management, and creating strategic initiatives and programs that have high impact. As the Connecticut State Director for the […]
June 25, 2025- Earlier this year we shared the news that we had acquired a 30-acre private inholding in the Weminuche Wilderness of southern Colorado. Now we are thrilled to announce that the property has been transferred to public ownership to be protected as designated wilderness. Running through the property are both Needle Creek and […]
June 13, 2025- During his first term, President Trump signed the Great American Outdoors and Dingell Acts into law, permanently authorizing and funding the Land and Water Conservation Fund (LWCF) with broad bipartisan support. Since LWCF was first established in 1964— the same year the Wilderness Act was passed— it has used revenue from offshore […]
May 31, 2025- Join us in welcoming Stu Smith to our board of directors! You may recognize Stu as the retired GIS professional who has volunteered his time over the past few years to help create our first of its kind GIS-based inventory of private wilderness inholdings and edgeholdings. Stu has not only brought his professional […]
May 16, 2025- When most people turn on their taps at home, they are unaware of the journey the clean water flowing from it has taken to reach them. Whether pumped from deep in the ground, collected from streams and rivers into reservoirs, or traversing hundreds of miles through complex networks of aqueduct and pipes, […]
May 2, 2025- This week our spring newsletter is hitting mailboxes across the country. In it we celebrate how our recent work is benefiting public access, connected landscapes, and protected watersheds in some of your favorite wilderness areas; get into the weeds with the anatomy of a Trust project; talk about how our work is […]
April 18, 2025- Unless you’re a wilderness practitioner or researcher, you probably haven’t been keeping up with the debate playing out in the pages of the International Journal of Wilderness about the intersection of virtual reality and wilderness. Through a series of articles, Keely Fisher, a researcher at Ohio State University, and writer Paul Keeling explore how […]
April 4, 2025- We are thrilled to welcome Liz Seger to our staff as our new Director of Philanthropy. Liz lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and brings outstanding experience and expertise in fundraising, as well as a love for wild places, to the Trust. She holds a B.A. in Russian History and Religious Studies from […]
March 21, 2025- You may have noticed this seal of accreditation on our website or outreach materials in the past. Awarded by the Land Trust Accreditation Commission, an independent program of the Land Trust Alliance, it is given to land trusts meeting the highest national standards for excellence and conservation permanence, demonstrating sound finances, ethical […]
March 7, 2025- In southwest Colorado, the Uncompahgre Wilderness meets the American Flats, Handies Peak, and Red Cloud Peak Wilderness Study Areas in the high peaks and sweeping vistas of the San Juan Mountains. Remnants of the area’s rich mining history scatter the mountainsides, including the Alpine Loop Scenic Byway— 63 miles of old mining roads […]
