Placer Land Trust has just voted in Christine Pieper as Board President! Christine joined the Board of Directors in April 2018 and eagerly took on new leadership roles, becoming Vice President in June 2019, and just one year later, was unanimously voted in as our new Board President, effective July Read more…
Humbled! That’s the best way to describe how Placer Land Trust staff and board members feel after the outpouring of support this Big Day of Giving. Our members, both new and longtime supporters, gave over $178,000 to show our region how much protected natural and agricultural land means to them. We can’t Read more…
Placer Land Trust has permanently protected yet another historic working agricultural landscape in Placer County! Placer Land Trust and landowner Patti Beard have placed an Agricultural Conservation Easement on the 137-acre Beard Ranch in North Auburn, permanently protecting the property for farming and ranching.
Placer Land Trust believes that spending time in nature improves our quality of life by creating opportunities to improve our physical and mental health, and deepen connections with loved ones and with the natural world around us. That is why in 2013, we set out to raise $750,000 through our Read more…
For Placer Land Trust, 2019 was the Year of Rivers! This year saw the permanent protection of 408 acres of beautiful, rugged canyon land in the Sierra, through three separate river projects. But the close of 2019 is also the end of a decade, and looking back, we can see Read more…
AUBURN, CA, JANUARY 7, 2020 — Placer Land Trust has permanently protected the 42-acre Loera-Harvey North Fork Preserve on the North Fork American River near Weimar. Located between Yankee Jim’s Bridge and Sore Finger Point, the property is a mixture of conifer and hardwood forests, and includes approximately 1/4 mile Read more…
Article and photographs courtesy of Placer Legacy. Placer Land Trust and the Placer Legacy Program are two different entities often working in cooperation towards a similar goal: conserve and protect Placer County’s undeveloped land. Commonly mistaken as synonymous organizations, there can be a bit of a blurred line between two Read more…
We are delighted to share that Placer Land Trust has purchased and permanently protected the North Fork of North Fork American River Preserve, 320 acres of steep forested canyon land near Emigrant Gap. The property includes approximately 1.2 river miles of the North Fork of North Fork American River, which feeds Read more…
Each year, Placer Land Trust honors an individual or group that enhances the quality of life in Placer County through resource conservation with the prestigious Placer Conservator Award. This year, we were thrilled to present the award to both Jim Branham and Bob Kingman in honor of their distinguished careers Read more…
2019 Placer Conservators Jim Branham and Bob Kingman • Land Stewards of the Year Jan Foster and Ray Valone • Volunteers of the Year Gary and Shannon Wells