Two wildlife crossings in the Mojave Desert will hit the drawing board thanks to a $5.5 million state-funded grant.

Next time you’re winding through the forest along I-80 on the way to North Tahoe, keep an eye out for a pretty blue lake to the right near Emigrant Gap. Nestled in the Sierra Nevada foothills, that ...

The Northern California Regional Land Trust has finalized a conservation easement with the landowners of Kittyhawk Orchards, securing the future of a key agricultural property along Keefer ...

The Solano Land Trust is about a lot more than just preserving land for posterity. For the people of Solano County and visitors from elsewhere, it’s also about people’s relationship with and access to ...

Press releases are posted on Independent.com as a free community service. SANTA YNEZ, Calif. (October 16, 2025) — The California Rangeland Trust honored two remarkable leaders in land stewardship ...

Santa Ana resident Ana Urzua was on a tour of urban development projects in Los Angeles when she stumbled on a novel idea — using a land trust to grow small businesses. A community land trust, or CLT, ...

The City Council agreed to give the indigenous-led organization over $800,000 in Measure DD funds to conserve 16-acres in the ...

MARTINEZ, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--John Muir Land Trust (JMLT, jmlt.org) announces the purchase of Point Buckler, a 29-acre island situated in Suisun Marsh, the largest contiguous, brackish marsh on ...

The Klamath Indigenous Land Trust recently purchased 10,000 acres along the Klamath River, signifying one of the largest Indigenous-led private land purchases in U.S. history as salmon continue to ...

This week, the Northcoast Regional Land Trust announced that, in conjunction with a coalition of state and federal partners, it had finalized a conservation easement for Trinity County’s Travis Ranch.

A historic deal will return over 10,000 acres of former ranch land in the northern Sierra Nevada to the Washoe Tribe of Nevada and California, state officials announced. California’s Wildlife ...