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Meet the 2019 Placer Conservator Awardees
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
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Turning Your $25 into Thousands of Acres of Protected Land
Does my $25 donation really help protect land? That’s a question we hear from our members from time to time, and the answer is a resounding “YES”! Here’s how… As we all know, land in Placer County is expensive, especially some of the larger expanses of land that make the Read more…
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Placer Land Trust Earns National Recognition
AUBURN, CA, Aug. 6, 2019 – Americans unite and work together to save the open lands they love. Since 1991, Placer Land Trust has been doing just that for the people of Placer County. As one of the first land trusts in the Sierra to achieve national land trust accreditation, Placer Read more…
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Saying Goodbye to our Friend, Tom
Thomas D. McMahan 1940-2019 On July 11, 2019 Placer Land Trust (PLT) lost a long-time supporter and friend. Tom McMahan was a devoted volunteer for PLT, serving on the board of directors for over 12 years. Tom greatly valued our land in Placer County, and in his words felt, “We Read more…
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Placer Land Trust Permanently Protects Southern Cross Preserve
AUBURN, CA, JUNE 28, 2019 – Placer Land Trust has purchased and permanently protected the 46-acre Southern Cross Preserve on the North Fork American River north of Foresthill. The purchase was funded by Placer Land Trust members through the 2017 Placer Conservator Auction, the Emigrant Trails Greenway Trust, and a 50% bargain sale Read more…
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Free Canyon View Preserve Field Guides
Get out and go exploring with our printable field guides to Canyon View Preserve! These colorful guides are an easy, pocket-sized way to identify the trees, shrubs, and wildflowers you’ll see at the Preserve (as well as in many other places in the foothills). Just print, fold, and hit the Read more…
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Big Day of Giving 2019 — What A Success!
Our members are the BEST! Thanks to you, we raised over $147,000 this Big Day of Giving to fuel our mission in the year ahead and beyond. A big congrats to the 600 other nonprofits and the Sacramento Region Community Foundation for raising over $8 million so that organizations serving the Sacramento Read more…
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Amy Eubank joins the Land Trust Board of Directors
Placer Land Trust is pleased to announce the addition of Amy Eubank to their Board of Directors. Eubank grew up in El Dorado County and has fond memories of hiking and camping across the Gold Country region with her family. “My parents taught me at a very young age to Read more…
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PLT Permanently Protects Oest Ranch — Lone Star Preserve
Placer Land Trust has permanently protected 427 acres of prime ranch land in Placer County, known as Oest Ranch Lone Star Preserve. Located along Highway 49 north of Auburn, the protection of this ranch was made possible through partnership with the Oest Family, California Climate Investments, CA Wildlife Conservation Board, Read more…
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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…