We also help create and care for trails—SF’s favorite way to use and enjoy natural lands. Trails connect people to the land as well as to each other. With local support, the SF Conservation Trust initiated the SF Rail Trail project, created the Spur Trail, and coordinated improvements on the La Tierra Trails. This year we’re organizing citizen volunteers to help us maintain and improve the Dale Ball Trail system, which carries the name of its creator, the first Executive Director of our organization.

We Work Here Locally – Right in Our Own Backyard.

Now that you’re in the know, you’ll never again fall into the trap of mistaking us for one of the national organizations with offices here in town: The Nature Conservancy (focusing on large-scale protection for ecosystems and species world-wide) or the Trust for Public Land (which helps protect land by bringing it into public ownership). Both are great organizations with whom we partner from time to time. Nor are we the NM Land Conservancy, which protects land statewide.

What makes us different? You got it: our
focus is right here in our own community.

So now, when we bump into each other at the grocery store, or when you meet other Santa Fe Conservation Trust staff—Daniel, Susan, David or Becky —on your daily walk, all you have to remember is that we’re your local land trust—the people helping SF protect the land that preserves our quality of life.

Hope our trails cross soon.

Rici Peterson is Executive Director of the Santa Fe Conservation Trust. To learn more about the SFCT’s conservation
easement and local trail programs, call: 505-989-7019,
email: info@sfct.org, or visit www.santafeconservationtrust.org.