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 protection of more than 39,000 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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Partnership protects important lands in the Galisteo Basin Preserve
Santa Fe Conservation Trust and the Commonweal Conservancy have completed the permanent conservation of 315 acres of significant natural lands in the Galisteo Basin, furthering the protection of one of the largest undeveloped areas south of Santa Fe. Considered among...
“Vámonos: Santa Fe Walks” wraps up first season
Vámonos: Santa Fe Walks completed its inaugural year of community walks on accessible urban trails in October. The walking collaborative began activities in May and built momentum over the Summer and into the Fall, finishing with a total of over 300 participants in...
Trail Work in November 2018
Trail volunteers returned to Dale Ball Trails on Nov. 7 to continue up the hill above Junction 11. We finally have got a handle on this stretch of gullied trail after three work days focusing on de-berming and building grade reversals since August. This time, we...
Field Trips to Dale Ball Trails, October 2018
In October we continued activities under the "Passport to Trails" program by bringing seven classes of 4th and 5th Graders from south-side schools to the north section of Dale Ball Trails. With the arrival of Mr. Barbero's Fifth-Graders from El Camino Real Academy on...
Trail Work in October 2018
In October we resumed maintenance work on Dale Ball Trails, continuing to address areas that had been eroded in Summer monsoons and safeguarding the trails from the next "thousand-year storm" or less. We continue to rely on volunteers of the Trails Alliance of Santa...
