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President, Landis PRsean@landispr.com Amy RicardSonoma County Ag + Open Spaceamy.ricard@sonoma-county.org Meda FreemanSonoma County Regional Parksmeda.freeman@sonoma-county.org SANTA ROSA, CALIF — One of Sonoma County’s most popular regional parks is about to expand. Tomorrow, Sonoma Land Trust, in partnership with Regional Parks and Sonoma County Ag + Open Space, will complete an acquisition of 54 undeveloped acres […]
One focus of our work in the Sonoma Valley Wildlife Corridor (partly funded by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation) is to promote improvements on the landscape that help animals move more freely. With help from our wonderful volunteers, we’ve removed nearly all fencing that impeded and risked entangling animals traveling to and from our Glen Oaks Ranch […]
President, Landis PRsean@landispr.com — Sonoma Land Trust has signed an agreement to purchase the breathtaking and historic 654-acre McCormick Ranch, which spans the ridge between Sonoma and Napa Counties in the southern Mayacamas Mountains, for $14.5 million. The purchase is scheduled to close in November 2020 and ownership will be transferred to local park agencies. […]
President, Landis PRsean@landispr.com SANTA ROSA, CALIF. — Sonoma Land Trust has been presented with the Land Trust Alliance’s 2019 National Land Trust Excellence Award. The Land Trust Alliance (LTA), a national land conservation organization working to save the places people need and love by strengthening land conservation across America, represents more than 1,000 land trusts nationwide, including Sonoma […]
President, Landis PRsean@landispr.com SANTA ROSA, CALIF.— To achieve Sonoma Land Trust’s mission of protecting the land of Sonoma County forever, we need an array of voices reflecting our community embodied in our organization, from board and staff to partners and supporters. In 2016, a group of six California land trusts, including Sonoma Land Trust, agreed […]
President, Landis PRsean@landispr.com(415) 286-7121 (cell) — After a national search, the Sonoma Land Trust board of directors has chosen award-winning conservation leader Eamon O’Byrne of The Nature Conservancy’s California Chapter as the organization’s new executive director. O’Byrne will succeed Dave Koehler, who is retiring. O’Byrne joined The Nature Conservancy (TNC) in 2008, initially serving as […]
SANTA ROSA, CALIF. — Thanks to the vision of a family that cared deeply about the future of Sonoma County, the Sonoma Land Trust has received a $700,000 grant from Community Foundation Sonoma County and their regional affiliate the Sonoma Valley Fund to protect more than 700 acres of open space, trails and natural resources […]
President, Landis PRsean@landispr.com SANTA ROSA, CALIF. — Sonoma Land Trust is hosting an afternoon of fun activities for the community on June 9 at Howarth Park in celebration of nature, parks and the future planned Santa Rosa Southeast Greenway. is free to the public and will take place from 1 to 4pm at the Howarth Park Lawn […]
Sheri CardoDirector of Communications(707) 526-6930 x111sheri@sonomalandtrust.org Nina Erlich-WilliamsPublic Good PRnina@publicgoodpr.comO: (510) 336-9566C: (415) 577-1153 — On April 16, Superior Court Judge Patrick Broderick entered a judgment that forcefully upholds the Sonoma Land Trust’s authority to protect natural resources through conservation easements, and enforces a key law used by land trusts to permanently protect land from […]
SANTA ROSA, CALIF. — A group of six private organizations and public agencies that own and manage land in the public trust has formed the Sonoma Valley Wildlands Collaborative (“the Collaborative”) and has just been awarded a grant from CAL FIRE (California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection) in the amount of $1,055,575 to undertake […]
