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Video: Meyer Preserve, Auburn, CA
Join us on a visit to Meyer Preserve, situated along the well-traveled Mount Vernon Road. This property contains rolling hills, rangelands, and scattered oaks that are characteristic of Placer County’s rural foothills, providing roadside scenic views to the public.
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A Volunteer who gives a hoot!
Dennis Cavallo, a longtime friend and volunteer of Placer Land Trust, has been spending a lot of his time at our Swainson’s Grassland Preserve in Lincoln lately. And there’s only one reason we know of why he’d put up with this kind of heat—baby burrowing owls!! For the last few Read more…
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Placer Land Trust renewing Accreditation
The national Land Trust Accreditation Commission recognizes land trusts and conservation organizations that meet rigorous national quality standards and strive for continuous improvement in protecting important natural places and working lands forever. In 2008, Placer Land Trust became the first accredited land trust in the Sierra and one of the Read more…
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10 Ways to Give
In honor of permanently protecting TEN thousand acres, here are TEN different ways you can support the land you love… Direct donations – give simple but meaningful gifts through cash, credit cards, checks and money orders. Sustaining gifts – set up recurring donations on PLT’s website that are automatically withdrawn Read more…
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Communications Specialist
This position is CLOSED to new applicants Placer Land Trust (PLT) is a private nonprofit charitable organization based in Auburn, CA, dedicated to quality of life through the protection of wide open spaces, wild places, local farms and ranches, natural playgrounds, and the links that connect us to them. Read more…
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Antonio Mountain Ranch Preserve
This summer is shaping up to be hot at Placer Land Trust with the addition of nearly 800 acres of permanently protected wildlife habitat in Lincoln. Placer Land Trust recently recorded a conservation easement on the Antonio Mountain Ranch property on Fiddyment Road in Lincoln, as part of a mitigation Read more…
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Awesome News for Northern California!
On June 8th, an 83 lb Gray Wolf, known as OR-54, was seen near Boreal Mountain, just over a mile from Interstate 80. The California Department of Fish and Wildlife have been tracking the two year old female, believed to be the offspring of the first Gray Wolf to wander Read more…
