Help protect the lands you love! We need your help TODAY

Conserve priority lands and support a community more adapted to meet the effects of climate change, wildfire, and habitat loss.

As this year’s fire season approaches, we stand with you in trepidation for what this threat poses to our community.

We have all witnessed the destruction caused to our community, neighboring lands, and sometimes even our own backyards. We have seen once pristine landscapes rendered unrecognizable, wildlife habitats devastated, and pervasive and unhealthy smoke render our valley unusable for months. For all of us, this new season of extreme fire behavior has undoubtedly changed how we live our lives.

Now more than ever, conservation is playing a leading role in limiting the scope of wildfires and reducing their damage when they do occur. While we don’t hold the key to stopping these fires completely, as climate change leads to increased temperatures, strengthened wind events, and extended drought, the work you make possible today allows for the possibility of creating a safer tomorrow.

With proactive ecosystem management, we have the ability to educate landowners as we acquire new conservation easements and provide resources for fire stewardship and land management techniques to better withstand the most pressing threats of climate change. These well-managed properties will lessen the fire spread potential to neighboring lands and enhance community safety and fire preparedness on a regional scale.

Thoughtful land conservation will also ensure that future development needs are not in direct conflict with wildfire prone areas. By ensuring that our critical ecosystems are protected, we can mitigate future risk to our community and strategically guide the growth demands of our region.

Protecting our most threatened landscapes promises greater ecosystem resilience and resource security as our climate rapidly changes. With your help, this is possible. Conserving these priority lands ensures that our community is not only better equipped to combat the effects of wildfires, but that we are also protecting wildlife habitats, recreational areas, biodiversity hotspots, pristine watersheds, and supporting sustainable agriculture.

As we learn to utilize land conservation as a tool capable of wide-reaching benefits, the need to ramp up the work becomes even more evident. With your help, we have the ability through targeted land protection to address a critical future environmental need.

By donating to the Shasta Land Trust today you help lay the framework for a better tomorrow.

Please join this community effort in protecting the lands we love. Your contribution will make a difference at this most pivotal moment.