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. More about us >>
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. Learn More >>
“Keeping working land working and wildland wild for future generations.”
Buy Fresh Buy Local - North Valley Program Underway
Interested farmers, distributors, processors, restaurants, retailers, institutions, and community members are encouraged to become BFBL-North Valley members by filling out the application below. All members receive access to BFBL-North Valley graphics, an expanded listing in the annual Local Food Guide, and a 1-year CAFF membership, as well as invitations to periodic networking events and marketing workshops.
NCRLT is pleased to announce its newest conservation easement, the 640-acre R&R Ranch. R&R Ranch is located in southeastern Tehama County and is surrounded by TNC’s Dye Creek Preserve to the south and DFG’s Tehama Wildlife Area to the north, west and east. The landscape is dissected dramatically by Long Gulch and has rocky outcroppings, a clearwater creek, pristine springs and diverse oak woodlands.
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.