Nevada County Land Trust Applies for National Accreditation
November 14, 2008 – Accredited land trusts meet national quality standards for protecting important natural places and working lands forever. The accreditation seal lets the public know that the accredited land trust has undergone an extensive external review of the governance and management of its organization and the systems and policies it uses to protect land. Read more.....

Legal Dispute Over Land is Over: Community Wins!
September 8, 2008 – In a final ruling, Judge Robert Tamietti in the Nevada County and California State Superior Court has decided in favor of Nevada County Land Trust and landowners Bill and Anna Trabucco and Paul and Kellye Manuel in a civil lawsuit brought by adjacent landowner Ian Garfinkel who desired to build a road across protected land to gain access to his property.
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Winner of the First William Nickerl Award for Conservation Leadership Given to William (Bill) Nickerl
June 6, 2008 - Nevada County Land Trust (NCLT) announced today the establishment of the William Nickerl Award for Conservation Leadership in Western Nevada County. This award is named for William (Bill) Nickerl, an early organizer and founding Board member of Nevada County Land Trust. Read more...

Update: Salter Fund for the Benefit of Animals Grantees
March 7, 2008 – The Nevada County Land Trust has announced the names of the organizations chosen this year to receive grant funding from the Al Salter Fund for the Benefit of Animals. This announcement comes on the fifth anniversary of the gift of his land to the Land Trust on March 5, 2003. Read more...

Linden Lea Ranch Conservation Easement
Last weekend I was treated to a dinner cooked by Anna and Bill Trabucco at their newly- completed house off Bitney Springs Road. Anna and Bill lease land to rancher Jim Gates of Nevada County Free Range Beef, and were celebrating Jim’s long-awaited new label, recently approved by the US Department of Agriculture and that now adorns his packages of ground beef in BriarPatch’s freezer. Read more...

Two New Conservation Easements Totaling 240 Acres Announced
December 2007 – Thanks to the vision of two rural Nevada City families, the Nevada County Land Trust closed 2007 by conserving more than 240 acres within the Deer Creek watershed above Lake Wildwood. Al and Lynne Dover, who had previously donated a conservation easement on 15 acres of their Peaceful Valley Ranch, added over 83 acres to their easement. Just downstream, Holger and Tacy Hahn permanently conserved 158 acres on both sides of Deer Creek. Read more...