Clean water, clean air, and beautiful wild areas draw people to California’s North Coast. As our population increases, so does the need for residential subdivision and the development of the land that makes our home so special. The Northcoast Regional Land Trust works to keep natural areas and family-owned land free from development. Our work will have lasting benefits to the North Coast’s rural culture and economy for generations to come.

The Land Trust's programs offer a complete solution to land conservation for the North Coast community.

Land Conservation
Our Land Conservation program seeks to protect and restore important wild and working lands on Humboldt, Trinity, and Del Norte Counties through voluntary conservation easements or acquisitions. We work with conservationists, ranchers, farmers, timberland managers, natural resource scientists, environmental advocates, and residents to protect one of the last best places on Earth. Check out out the Projects that we have completed so far and those currently underway.

North Coast Dialogues
We are addressing changes that threaten to undermine the environments and economies that have historically supported local communities and their distinctive rural culture. The North Coast Dialogues program engages a diverse group of community leaders and others to collectively define a 100-year vision of regional sustainability and to develop a strategic action plan for attaining that vision. The goal of Dialogues is to empower our community to initiate healthy transitions in response to our changing economy and landscapes.

Conservation Planning
This program identifies threats and opportunities for conservation across the North Coast region. It addresses the preservation, conservation, restoration and management of ecological systems, landscape linkages and wildlife corridors, rare or threatened species, and unique natural communities. It emphasizes actions that are feasible from an implementation standpoint by integrating social and economic factors with biological considerations.

Outreach & Education
We are dedicated to education and outreach opportunities to engage the communities that we serve in our conservation efforts. We seek to connect people to their natural surroundings, transform cultural relationships to the land, and ensure for enduring resource protection. We achieve these goals by promoting naturalist-led, recreation events and hands-on, ecosystem education for high school students. We also provide outreach materials and offer workshops to agricultural landowners, giving them the valuable tools they need to conserve productive farmland.