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.”

Local Watershed Groups Partner with NCRLT on “Tuscan Headwaters Project”

NCRLT is delighted to share exciting news of our newest project, the Tuscan Headwaters Project. NCRLT will receive funding from the Sierra Nevada Conservancy (SNC) over a 20-month period to conduct coordinated outreach with collaborating, local watershed conservation groups in eastern Butte and Tehama counties. This funding will promote and facilitate watershed stewardship and permanently protect properties within watersheds.

To learn more about this exciting project, download our Fall 2008 Newsletter.

Agricultural Conservation Easement Funding Still Available!

In response to the tremendous success NCRLT has had in agricultural conservation over the past twelve months, the California Department of Conservation’s (DOC) California Farmland Conservancy Program (CFCP) has decided to extend NCRLT’s agricultural conservation outreach for another six months.

Contact NCRLT to find out more about funding for the purchase of agricultural conservation easements.

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NCRLT's most recent 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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