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Conserving our extraordinary land & water resources for all Californians.
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Early Bird Registration is now open for the 2026 California Land & Water Conservation Conference! We invite you to join us in Sacramento from March 16–19 and experience the power of our land trust community.

Learn more and register: https://bit.ly/488COI4
November 20, 2025 at 5:05 PM
We're looking for a detail-orientated individual w/ a passion for conservation as our new Grants Program Manager to oversee management, implementation, and administration of state-funded grant programs supporting natural resource management and land conservation. Learn more: https://bit.ly/4gY6USF
October 17, 2025 at 6:48 PM
We're looking for a detail-orientated individual w/ a passion for conservation as our new Grants Program Manager to oversee management, implementation, and administration of state-funded grant programs supporting natural resource management and land conservation. Learn more: https://bit.ly/4gY6USF
October 8, 2025 at 4:09 PM
The CCLT team visited with Vivon Sedgwick, Restoration Program Director @ Ojai Valley Land Conservancy to learn how the Project Advancement Grant has allowed OVLC to prioritize multi-benefit water conservation projects, like the Ventura River Preserve.
October 7, 2025 at 6:17 PM
While visiting LA Neighborhood Land Trust's community garden in Unidad Park, our team heard more about their work and how the Capacity Building Grant, funded by @calconservation.bsky.social, is being put into action. #CCLTOutOnTheLand
September 9, 2025 at 10:37 PM
We're still buzzing from #30x30CA Partnership Summit! We heard from conservation experts and built connections that'll help continue our shared commitment to conserve 30% of CA's lands & coastal waters by 2030! Let's keep it up! 🌎 💪💙

📷: @wadecrowfoot.bsky.social‬ and Meghan Hertel, Dept. Secretary
September 2, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Some great news to send us into the holiday weekend — AB900 was voted out of the Senate Appropriations Committee today. The bill now heads to the Senate Floor for its penultimate hurdle before landing on the Governor's desk. Thank you to everyone who has supported us so far. Stay tuned!
August 29, 2025 at 10:54 PM
Ready to learn how to better respond to complex public funding opportunities? Explore methods for proposal development, key info to gather from grant guidelines, and recommendations on how to write compelling proposals.

Learn more and register: https://bit.ly/41eEDQZ
August 20, 2025 at 4:08 PM
🚨ACTION ALERT: Yesterday, CCLT heard that the CA State Legislature Assembly is not planning to appropriate Prop 4 funding this year. Please reach out to your Assemblymember(s) ASAP to let them know that Prop 4 funding needs to be allocated this year: https://findyourrep.legislature.ca.gov/
August 19, 2025 at 9:55 PM
During our visit, CCLT's Capacity Building grantee Sierra Foothill Conservancy's Ops. Director and Biologist Jessica Thompson & Southern Sierra Miwuk Nation's Secretary and Director of Stewardship Tara Fouche-Moore spoke about the Mariposa Tribal Partnership & Resilience Initiative Project.
August 11, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Siskiyou Land Trust's Acquisitions Program Director Alexis Robertson, Conservation Project Manager Jessica Matthews & Stewardship Program Director Erica Harris invited us to learn more about their Siskiyou Migration Corridor and Habitat Acquisition Project Development projects in Siskiyou County.
August 11, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Ready to learn about land protection? Do you have conservation knowledge to share? Check out a new offering from Sierra Cascade Land Trust Council and CCLT, with generous support from Wildlife Conservation Board and Land Trust Alliance: The Land Protection Academy: calandtrusts.org/land-protect...
August 11, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Such exciting news to receive! 🎉 Congratulations to @mendocinolandtrust.bsky.social on this new acquisition. This is the first closing that was supported by CCLT's Project Advancement Grant, funded by the Wildlife Conservation Board. 🌲 mendofever.com/2025/07/25/1...
157 acres on the Mendocino Coast just got a new future - MendoFever – Mendocino County News
A scenic stretch of Mendocino coastline just south of Westport is now permanently protected — and on track to be returned to local tribes. The Mendocino Land Trust announced Friday it has finalized th...
mendofever.com
August 11, 2025 at 5:12 PM
We love when our team is able to spend quality time in nature! 🌲 🌸 🗻 Recently, CCLT's Program Coordinator Claire Marvet backpacked through the Eastern Sierra passes and canyons alongside mountain lakes.
August 11, 2025 at 5:11 PM
CCLT's Karin Winters talks w/ @mendocinolandtrust.bsky.social's Emily Griffen about their acquisition and land return project at Bell Point. This project is supported by CCLT's Project Advancement Grant, funded by the Wildlife Conservation Board.🌲 Learn more about our grantees: bit.ly/CCLTGranteeMap
July 18, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Congrats to the CA Natural Resources Agency on the release of the 2025 Pathways to 30x30 Annual Progress Report: bit.ly/3GzAuzV

There's much to celebrate for land and ocean conservation and a clear vision for the future!
July 18, 2025 at 8:58 PM
CCLT's Karin Winters is conducting site visits w/ grantees to learn about their preserves, projects & partnerships.

Hear from Lake County Land Trust on:
🌼 The Capacity Building grant, funded by @calconservation.bsky.social, has built their capacity by funding their 1st ED!
July 16, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Join the California Natural Resources Agency on Thursday, July 10 at noon for Cutting Through the Noise: Federal Impacts on California and What We’re Doing About It. Hear from state officials working with partners to protect CA people and places.

Register: www.resources.ca.gov
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July 8, 2025 at 9:00 PM
CCLT is proud to join The Wildfire Solutions Coalition (WSC), a groundbreaking alliance of cross-sector leaders and orgs throughout the state to secure long-term, sustained funding for wildfire mitigation and resilience, and to fully implement California’s Wildfire and Forest Resilience Action Plan.
The Wildfire Solutions Coalition
We can break California’s cycle of catastrophic wildfire by funding and implementing our state’s wildfire resilience strategy. Join us today.
wildfiresolutionsca.org
July 1, 2025 at 8:41 PM
On Tuesday, CCLT ED Caroline Godkin and Michael Jared from @nature.org provided testimony in support of AB 900, a new bill authored by @asmdianepapan.bsky.social that aims to strengthen and advance the environmental stewardship of conserved lands under California's 30x30 initiative.
June 27, 2025 at 7:03 PM
In partnership w/ CA Chapter American Society of Farm Managers & Rural Appraisers and Wildlife Conservation Board, we hosted "CA Land Conservation Appraisal Seminar," a continuing education seminar for certified appraisers with the goal to expand the community of qualified conservation appraisers.
June 27, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Reposted by California Council Of Land Trusts
The CA Farmland Conservation Program is accepting rolling applications for ag land protection grants. 🌱

💡No workshop—just Office Hours:
📆June 18 & July 2, 11 am.

Land trusts, planners, & local govs encouraged to join.

Learn more + attend: conservation.ca.gov/dlrp/grant-p...
June 17, 2025 at 7:30 PM
ATTN: Land trust staff and board members! Apply for our online course "Empowering Land Trusts to Engage Online Audiences: Content Creation for Nature" with @michellefullner.bsky.social. Learn more & apply by July 18: bit.ly/4058haD

This program is generously funded by @calconservation.bsky.social
June 18, 2025 at 5:52 PM
📣 Round 2 applications are now open for Project Advancement Grants that support land trust and their partners in 6-12 month projects that advance the goals of Pathways to #30x30 and the Natural and Working Lands Climate Smart Strategy.

Learn more and apply at bit.ly/CCLT-Project.
May 6, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Thank you for everyone who participated in this year's sold-out CCLT California Land & Water Conference! Hear from our very own Caroline Godkin, who recapped our inspirational time together on closing day.
April 11, 2025 at 10:32 PM