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 46,000 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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From the Executive Director

In this issue of EarthLines, we are looking back at a very busy 2025 and celebrating the growth of the Santa Fe Conservation Trust (SFCT) in ways that are very appropriate to the times we live in now. SFCT has worked for more than three decades at the intersection of land, people and place in northern New Mexico. We occupy a unique role in our region: one that recognizes that the future of conservation is inseparable from equitable access to nature, building climate resilience, supporting cultural belonging, and speeding the pace of conservation. Part of SFCT’s mission is to ensure that the land and people flourish together. By expanding access to conservation, restoring land in the face of climate impacts, connecting people to nature, and protecting landscapes that define northern New Mexico, we are building a more equitable and resilient future—one in which the health, culture, and natural heritage of our region are shared by everyone.