However you choose to engage — with your time, your financial support, or by visiting our preserves and taking part in our programs — you are part of work that truly matters. As spring unfolds, I’m grateful for the opportunity to share our work with you.
Expanding Our Preserve System
Investment in high-impact conservation on private lands has never been more urgent or more promising. Our commitment to land ownership remains our greatest strength for pursuing a deep conservation vision: stewarding land permanently, opening it to the public free of charge, and restoring habitats and wildlife.
Right now, we are advancing major land acquisitions that will conserve more than 35,000 acres of extraordinary landscapes across California and Arizona. Among them is the 1,400-acre Eel Rock property in Humboldt County, the next “jewel” in the Eel River Emerald Necklace and a key connection to the future Great Redwood Trail, with opportunities to enhance steelhead habitat and cultural stewardship.
In Ventura County, the Sespe Foothills Acquisition Project continues to build momentum and will protect essential habitat and anchor a wildlife corridor between the Topatopa and Santa Monica Mountains for mountain lions, California condors, butterflies and more.
Recommitting to Rewilding
Our commitment to restoration is moving into large-scale action this summer as we break ground on major restoration projects to renew rivers, forests, and coastal wetlands. We are also advancing efforts to reintroduce keystone species, including beaver, elk, bighorn sheep, and native fish, where they onceshaped healthy ecosystems. Subscribe to our email list for rewilding updates from across the preserve system.
Investing in the Future
The impact of this work extends beyond acreage through our outdoor education programs. Challenges around student social and emotional well-being have been widely documented, and teachers in these programs continue to see them firsthand. Through naturalist-led programs that nurture curiosity, quiet exploration, and meaningful time outdoors, children rediscover resilience, confidence, and a sense of belonging in the natural world.
Your time, energy, generosity, and belief in this work make our impact possible. Thank you for supporting our “wildest” ambitions and for your partnership in building a more resilient planet for the remarkable life forms that call it home.
Frazier Haney
Executive Director
