Protect the Land
- New!
2016−2020 Strategic Plan
We invite you to review our long-term vision and goals, and the conservation initiatives that your land trust will be working to complete over the next five years.
Download the Strategic Plan
- New!
Sears Point Interpretive Talks and Bird Walks
Every Saturday at the Sears Point Tidal Marsh from 9–noon
Walk the newest section of the Bay Trail and experience the tidal marsh lands. Docents will be on hand to answer questions and orient visitors to the site. No registration needed!
Parking area on Reclamation Road just south of the Lakeville Hwy/Hwy 37 intersection.
Sonoma Valley Wildlife Corridor
- Wildlife Corridor Brochure
- Rural Landowner Brochure
- Results of the Wildlife Corridor underpass report
- Read the Wildlife Corridor Mgmt & Monitoring Strategy
- Video about Stuart Creek Run creek restoration (3 min.)
Watch the video
Sonoma Developmental Center (SDC)
What’s New?
Sonoma Land Trust is a proud co-sponsor of Measure J: For Our Local Parks. Vote YES on J to protect our beautiful Sonoma County Regional Parks that provide clean water, wildlife and fish habitat, and opportunities to hike, bike and camp with our families here at home.
Read detailed project list here
Follow YES on J on Facebook
Volunteer for Measure J
New! We've acquired a 162-acre property in the wildlife corridor
Wendy Eliot, Sonoma Land Trust’s conservation director, takes in the peaceful surroundings of Santa Rosa Creek near its headwaters in the Mayacamas Mountains. Photo by Kent Porter/Press Democrat.
June 30, 2016 — Sonoma Land Trust has purchased a stunning property in the Mayacamas to add to Hood Mountain Regional Park.
Read more here
It was a glorious opening of the new Bay Trail at Sears Point!
Hundreds of people enjoyed walking along the new Bay Trail on May 15. Photo by Beth Schlanker/Press Democrat.
Read all about it:
Press Democrat
Marin IJ
Sonoma Index-Tribune
Download brochure
with map of the new Bay Trail!
DONE DEAL! Estero Ranch has been protected forever
On December 24, we closed on 547-acre Estero Ranch, offering both Estero Americano frontage and Pacific coastline from which one can see Point Reyes, Bodega Head and Doran Beach. Read more here
Read January 7, 2016 Press Democrat article
Read October 29, 2015 Press Democrat article
View aerial video (4 min.)
40th Anniversary Slideshow
Take a few minutes to enjoy a slideshow of the lands you’ve helped protect – from the coast to the Bay. Thank you!
Breaching the Sears Point levee to restore 1,000 acres of tidal marsh (Oct. 2015)
Astonishing two-minute video of the breach
Key press coverage
Santa Rosa Press Democrat
San Francisco Chronicle
KPIX-TV Channel 5
Marin IJ
Valley of the Moon Magazine
Fun Twitter compilation by SF Bay Tide
Video about the restoration with Julian Meisler (5 min.)
Brochure about building tidal marsh
Features & Media
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- New grant expands wildlife corridor work
The Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation recently granted us $2.1 million to extend our efforts all the way to Napa and Marin. Read more here:
Press Democrat
Sonoma Index-Tribune
Kenwood Press - New!
2015−2016 Report to the Community
Making a splash at Sears Point, another big save along the coast, expanding our work in the wildlife corridor and more — it’s all here.
Read our annual report - New!
Follow the Open Road
Doug McConnell and his Open Road TV team produced two insightful stories on our projects this year. Enjoy!:
Sonoma Valley Wildlife Corridor (“Highway of Hope”)
Sears Point Wetland Restoration
- Spring newsletter: Vote for Measure AA, next steps for wildlife corridor, preserving land forever
View/download - Enjoy this outstanding 4-minute video about the land-to-marsh transition at Sears Point. CAUTION: You WILL get carried away by the visuals!
- Stick your head in our
fun
new blog, MOUNTAINS + MOLEHILLS, and get the dirt on stewardship happenings on our land.
Read the blog
- Winter newsletter: It's our 40th anniversary, SDC closure plan leaves door open to community vision, and we've had a sea change at Sears Point.
View/download- In-depth interview about Sonoma Land Trust from KSRO-Radio
Listen
- Featured Video:
“A State of Harmony”
Our stewardship manager Tony Nelson is featured in this new six-minute video about the important work being done by land trusts and resource conservation districts.
Watch the video
- Inspiring story from KGO-TV about our Sears Point Wetland Restoration project!
Watch the video
