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Join Your Land Trust at These Fall Events Autumn is full of fun and interesting events with the Sonoma Land Trust. Please join us.
For the latest Land Trust volunteer calendar, please click here. Let’s Double Our Membership Now! If we don’t protect this beautiful place we call Sonoma County, who will? The Sonoma Land Trust is a partnership of people working together to ensure that important land is not lost forever. Membership contributions are our lifeforce. The benefits are many: a monthly eNewsletter, volunteer opportunities, the member-only hike series, updates about critical issues facing our community, and more. You will be receiving your membership renewal in the mail shortly. Please respond as quickly and generously as you can so we can continue to work on your behalf. Click here to learn about the “Membership Challenge”
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“We have to make saving farmland a priority. We have to save land near cities, we need more farmers, and we need to teach people to farm and put them on land.”
Executive director Ralph Benson spoke at Slow Food Nation on the “Meat” panel about the “infrastructure” of open space and the connection between a vibrant, local agricultural economy and Sonoma County landscapes (read more on this next month). Additionally, SLT staffers Sheri Cardo and Tenley Wurglitz attended several of the “Food for Thought” presentations, including the eye-opening panel about the connection between climate change and food. In case you were wondering, yes, there is one, and it’s big. Moderator Mark Hertsgaard, journalist and author of the forthcoming Living Through the Storm: Our Future Under Global Warming, kicked off the session by informing the capacity crowd that climate change is locked in for the next 30 years. Even if the world stopped emitting all carbon right now (which is, of course, impossible), “the next 30 years are written in stone,” he said.
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Thanks to a collaborative partnership between the Land Trust and REI, a dedicated crew of hard-working volunteers cleared a two-mile Stuart Creek trail loop at Glen Oaks Ranch on a recent Saturday. With handsaws, clippers and loppers in hand, an enthusiastic crew of 12 volunteers trimmed away overhanging limbs and shrubs from the trail, clearing the way for hikers and fire-safety access. We are thrilled to partner with REI on service projects and other collaborative activities because of the enthusiastic energy that REI brings to every event. In addition to fantastic in-store outreach, REI staff provided the volunteers with super-cool, red T-shirts, tasty energy bars, sunscreen, chapstick, beverages, and other gear goodies as reward for all their hard work. After the trail project, everyone enjoyed ice cream treats donated by Coldstone Creamery and a tour of the adobe stone mansion at Glen Oaks Ranch. For more information about REI’s stewardship projects, please go to: 
