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PO Box 881
Helena, MT  59624
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This summer, while working on projects in the near This summer, while working on projects in the nearby Bodie Hills, our staff had the opportunity to catch up with an old friend, our Lundy Canyon project, to see what successful protection of this once-vulnerable property looks like three years after it transferred to public ownership. Today nothing separates the property from the surrounding Hoover wilderness. But that wasn’t always a given: a private buyer who wanted to put a permanent houseboat development on the small alpine lake was under contract to buy the property. That’s when The Wilderness Land Trust, with the help of our partners at @monolakeca and @easternsierralandtrust, stepped in to purchase the property and eventually transfer it to public ownership.
The Trust recently completed the transfer of the 1 The Trust recently completed the transfer of the 111-acre Achenbach Canyon property to public ownership, protecting public access to the popular 5.5-mile Achenbach Canyon Trail. Just miles from Las Cruces, New Mexico’s second largest city, the area surrounding the property, which adjoins the Organ Mountains Wilderness, has doubled in population and seen significant infill of residential development over the past 30 years. This project ensures habitat connectivity between the wilderness area and surrounding Organ Mountains-Desert Peaks National Monument. Thank you to our partners at @friendsomdp for helping to make the project a success! Senator Heinrich (NM), who visited the Achenbach Canyon property with the Trust and our partners after it was acquired in 2021, celebrates the project for improving public access: “Five years ago, we passed the Great American Outdoors Act and permanently funded the LWCF. Today, we’re seeing the results: the Achenbach Canyon property is now public land—thanks to LWCF Recreation Access funds. Improving access to OUR public lands is exactly why we fought for it. I’m grateful to the Wilderness Land Trust and Friends of Organ Mountains-Desert Peaks for their partnership and hard work in expanding New Mexicans’ access to public lands with this win.”
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THE WILDERNESS LAND TRUST
PO BOX 881
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