Northern California Regional Land Trust

The Northern California Regional Land Trust (NCRLT) assists Northern California landowners and public agencies in the voluntary protection of land and other natural resources. We help willing landowners protect their land, while also helping them gain the economic benefits of conservation. We carry out our mission by negotiating conservation easements and facilitating land exchanges and land acquisitions.
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A conservation easement is a way for a landowner to permanently protect the conservation values of his or her land while continuing to own it. It is a legal agreement between a landowner ("grantor") and a land trust ("grantee") that permanently limits development. Conservation easements are tailor made to meet the needs of an individual landowner and can cover an entire parcel or portions of a property. Tax benefits and/or financial compensation are often available for grantors of conservation easements.
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“Keeping working land working and wildland wild for future generations.”

Agricultural Easement Funding Now Available!

Funding for the purchase of agricultural conservation easements is now available from California’s Farmland Conservation Program and the Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) Farmland and Ranchland Protection Program.

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New Business Partner Harvest AMS

Harvest AMS became a Business Partner in February 2008 and specializes in the needs of Northern California nonprofits and small businesses and has assisted hundreds of organizations in implementing best practices for fiscal management. For more information contact Vada at (530) 872-9177, vada@harvestams.com or www.harvestams.com.

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NCRLT is currently working on two very exciting projects. In April, we were awarded $15,000 by the Sierra Nevada Conservancy for appraisal services in support of the Big Chico Creek Linkage Project. By securing appraisal services for three key properties, linking 3,616-ac Bidwell Park and the 4,144-ac Big Chico Creek Ecological Reserve (BCCER) to a protected 1,058-ac private estate upstream might be made possible. If realized, this would allow for the permanent protection of approximately 9,474 contiguous acres and 16 river miles of riverine/riparian habitat within the Big Chico Creek Watershed.

Another project, the Red Bank Project, represents an opportunity to purchase two conservation easements on two immediately adjacent ranch properties west of Red Bluff in Tehama County that would protect over 7,000 acres of working rangeland and farmland, including approximately 4,275 contiguous acres of blue oak woodland.

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