Have you met hiking docent, Karl Mertz? If you’ve spent any time on Placer Land Trust’s preserves, you may have met our busy volunteer, but even if you haven’t met him on a hike, you’ve very likely benefited from his many volunteer efforts as a geologist. Most people become geologists Read more…
Our Facebook post shared by more than 200 people results in tip to local police! You may have heard that we were recently the victim of a major theft. One of our staff members showed up early in the morning on Friday, June 6, intending to work on a firebreak Read more…
When she was growing up in Stillwater, Oklahoma, Trula Daughtery’s mother always told her that “Trula” was short for “True Love.” It’s fitting, then, that Daugherty went on to become not only a meditation and yoga instructor, but also a Master Teacher and Practitioner of Usui and Karuna Reiki, which Read more…
Though he was a couple of years older, Andy Herum and his wife, Ashley, attended the same prom– with different dates– and they didn’t manage to bump into each other on the dance floor. Later, they had friends who lived in the same apartment building at the same time, but Read more…
In 2010 Placer Land Trust purchased nearly 2,000 acres along Bear River now known as Harvego Bear River Preserve. The property, off of Lonestar Road in Auburn, includes a working cattle ranch, woodlands, grasslands, and a spectacular view from Bald Rock Mountain. Harvego is PLT’s biggest purchase to-date. Though one Read more…
The cows, bluebirds, wood ducks, American kestrels, and California Black Rails at Doty Ravine Preserve will have some new buzzing buddies in the grasslands: Honey bees. You may have heard about the plight of the honey bee. Overwork, fungicide, pesticide, single-crop pollination and lack of foraging land are taking a Read more…
Have you heard about the Big Day of Giving? It’s an online giving event hosted by Givelocalnow.org— a chance for local non-profits to raise as much money as possible within 24 hours and receive matching funds from a variety of sponsors. Placer Land Trust is very excited to be a Read more…
If you took an amble through Auburn School Park Preserve last month, you may have noticed some hard-working young women sprucing up the slope in front of the community garden. Girls Scouts Jen Kramer and Allison Kiger, along with a few parents, volunteered to restore the area and help Emma Read more…
PLT Protects American River Land 417 acres protected for pubic recreation, water quality, and wildlife habitat Placer Land Trust has teamed with the Trust for Public Land to protect more land along the North Fork American River: 417 acres across from Sore Finger Point at Big Bend. The property, Read more…
It sounds like something out of a movie. A young man is diagnosed with cancer, and he has only two things to keep him going: his work tending to the land that he loves, and his love for the people who tend the land with him. This was no cinematic Read more…