10/23/2010 Bruin Ranch ~ 2,300 acres along 3 miles of the Bear River We can save it now ~ as a public park and nature preserve for all to enjoy. Or we can watch as it gets developed for several hundred landowners to enjoy behind lock and key. The choice Read more…
9/30/2010 In 2010 High Ranch Nursery and Wildlands Inc. donated over 1,000 trees to Placer Land Trust. All of these native trees are in desperate need of a home on one of our Preserves. We need your help to make sure they survive! You can adopt your tree online at Read more…
9/27/2010 Placer Land Trust had 62 volunteers participate in the 2nd Annual Great Sierra River Cleanup this past Saturday. The Sierra Nevada Conservancy coordinates this annual event. This year we pulled out 44 bags of trash and recyclable materials. In total, we cleaned up almost 4,000 pounds of trash! Volunteers Read more…
9/26/2010 Please enjoy a few of Placer Land Trust’s photos from the 2010 Great Sierra River Cleanup! Photos were taken at two cleanup sites, Miner’s Ravine in Roseville and Taylor Ranch Preserve in Auburn. More pictures can be seen on our facebook page.
Support Grows for Bruin Ranch Protection By Jeff Darlington Midway through 2010, Placer Land Trust is pleased to announce that we’re over halfway to our goal of finding the funds necessary to acquire and permanently protect Bruin Ranch. Our success so far is based on the fact that Bruin Ranch Read more…
5/22/2010 On Saturday, May 15th Placer Land Trust honored Andy and Shana Laursen at the 2010 Placer Conservator Award Ceremony & Dinner. The Auburn Valley Golf Club provided and excellent view of Bruin Ranch, and 13 artists provided work created there for a preview of what will be shown at Read more…
3/31/2010 A half-day technical symposium on the Bear-Yuba watershed and the oak woodland foothills of theSierra Nevada presented by the Bear-Yuba Partnership The waterways, oak woodlands, and ranches in the Nevada, Placer, and Yuba County foothills provide critical wildlife habitat and migration connectivity, scenic open space, and convey vital water Read more…
American River Grazing Land Protected PLT and Oest Family protect family ranch near Lake Clementine By Jeff Darlington In November 2009, PLT worked with Daryl & Sue Oest and their family to put an agricultural conservation easement on the 350-acre Oest Ranch – Lake Clementine Preserve. This family ranch is a literal stone’s throw from Read more…
