Protecting Land, Trails, and Skies in Northern New Mexico
Saving Land. For Everyone. Forever.
New Mexico’s stunning, untouched landscapes—the life–supporting lands essential for healthy wildlife, clean air, pure water, and food–producing soils—are rapidly disappearing. The Santa Fe Conservation Trust is helping to create a network of natural, open lands in and around our communities, forever protected for all living creatures. By providing landowners with tools to place their lands into voluntary conservation status, we now oversee the protection of more than 45,000 acres in northern New Mexico.
The Santa Fe Conservation Trust partners with our community to keep northern New Mexico’s living lands and people flourishing together. We protect culturally and environmentally significant landscapes, ignite people’s passion for nature and enable the continual regeneration of our healthy place. We envision a future where everyone in northern New Mexico cherishes nature and works to preserve it for this and future generations.
We are a private non-profit organization, supported by the generosity of hundreds of people who share our passion- a healthy environment sustaining a healthy community. Learn more about the Santa Fe Conservation Trust and ways you can join us in our efforts to save the enchantment of Northern New Mexico.
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Trail Work in 2024
Santa Fe Conservation Trust organized 41 outings with volunteers in 2024 to scope out, design, build and, most frequently, maintain public trails. Typically meeting on Wednesday mornings, volunteers totalled nearly 620 hours worked, including 475 hours on City-owned...
SUN Success
The Stand Up For Nature fundraiser was a huge success on Saturday night. We had a full house of 350 people at the Farmers' Market Pavilion ready to listen to Bill McKibben and eager to support our work. We were humbled by the incredible response and will share...
2023 Annual Report & 2024 Newsletter
From the Executive Director 2023 was our 30th anniversary at SFCT, and what a year it was! We wanted to offer as many gatherings as we could to give you the opportunity to learn about and participate in our work. We had two free star parties, a host of Insider Tours,...
Tour de Mural: The Outliers
On May 11, 2024, SFCT's Trails Program Manager Tim Rogers led over twenty cyclists on a tour of outlying murals, starting and ending at the Railyard Community Room. It was also a great excuse to visit lesser-known trails, alleys, and short cuts along the way! Here...
Bears Near Tesuque
Green Schools Conference Bike Ride
SFCT's Trails Program Manager led a group of eight participants from the national Green Schools Conference on a 7.25-mile bike tour on Thursday, March 7, 2024. Bicycles and helmets were generously provided by the City's Recreation Department.
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2023 Annual Report & 2024 Newsletter
From the Executive Director 2023 was our 30th anniversary at SFCT, and what a year it was! We wanted to offer as many gatherings as we could to give you the opportunity to learn about and participate in our work. We had two free star parties, a host of Insider Tours,...