Mar 12, 2021 | Conserving Land, Events, Press Releases
Hard to believe that a whole year has gone by since the coronavirus shut everything down. Last year at this time, we had to cancel the Banff Mountain Film Festival at the Lensic, move home for what we thought would be just a month or so, and start the hard process of... 
Mar 5, 2021 | Conserving Land, Events, Press Releases
Last December, almost 80 people tuned in for our earthLINES Online Chat with authors Laura Paskus and Bill deBuys about climate change in the southwest. We’ve scheduled another earthLINES Online Chat for Wednesday, March 31 at 6:30 pm, and I hope you will join... 
Jan 29, 2021 | Conserving Land, Events, Press Releases
I don’t know about you, but I was pretty happy to make it through 2020, and I guess I expected 2021 to be better, just by virtue of it not being 2020 anymore! But as you’ve probably noticed, it isn’t much better, not yet, anyway. Maybe it was... 
Dec 8, 2020 | Conserving Land, Events, Press Releases
“You can’t just think, ‘Oh, it’s happening to some isolated group of people.’ No, we all breathe the same air, and we all need to stand up and protect our environment. There are better ways of doing this.”– excerpt from AT THE... Dec 4, 2020 | Conserving Land, Events, Press Releases
“What do you do with your grief? What do you do with your loss? . . . What do we do with species going extinct? What do we do with nude mountains?” – excerpt from AT THE PRECIPICE DECEMBER 9 ∙ 6:30PM We hope you marked this unique and very special... 
Aug 31, 2020 | Conserving Land, Press Releases
1921 – 2020 Bud (Daniel T.) Kelly, Jr. was born in 1921 in Santa Fe. His family owned and operated Gross, Kelly and Co., one of the largest railroad general mercantile companies in the southwest. Bud was one of six children. When he was an infant, his... 
Jun 12, 2020 | Conserving Land, Events, Press Releases, Vamonos
New 370-acre conservation easement on Glorieta Mesa (see article below). It has been an eventful two weeks on so many levels nationally, but also here at SFCT. Organizationally, I want to tell you what we’ve been dealing with lately. Like other nonprofits, we... 
May 22, 2020 | Conserving Land, Events, Press Releases
We are heading into Memorial Day weekend, which celebrates the men and women who died while serving our country. This weekend, let’s also remember the over 96,000 Americans who have died from COVID-19, which feels like the fight of our lives right now. I have never... 
Apr 4, 2019 | Conserving Land
Santa Fe Cholla (Cylindropuntia viridiflora) A very rare cactus found only in the wild in three areas between Santa Fe and Chimayo will have a new home thanks to Daniela Roth, NM’s endangered plant program coordinator, the Santa Fe Institute, and the Santa Fe... 
Dec 18, 2018 | Conserving Land, Press Releases
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...