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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Our Programs
News
Acequia and River Cruise: May 10, 2025
Sarah Noss on the Richard Eeds Show
Richard Eeds Show - April 28, 2025 Sarah Noss, Executive Director @ the Santa Fe Conservation Trust, on their weekly walks to get people outside. Also, their overall mission of conserving large pieces of land....
National Forest Foundation at Riverhaven
On a sunny February 27th, the National Forest Foundation joined SFCT to remove some Siberian Elm from SFCT's Riverhaven property. We are so thankful for all their help.
Stakeholder Notification
In 2014, Santa Fe Conservation Trust (SFCT) applied for and was awarded national accreditation through the Land Trust Accreditation Commission, an independent program of the Land Trust Alliance (LTA). This accreditation must be renewed every five years, so SFCT is...
Trail Work in 2024
Santa Fe Conservation Trust organized 42 outings with volunteers in 2024 to scope out, design, build and, most frequently, maintain public trails. Typically meeting on Wednesday mornings, volunteers totalled over 660 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...
Publications
2020 Annual Report
SFCT's 2020 Annual Report / 2021 Newsletter is hot off the press! Inside, learn about climate change action and our part in it, updates on our mission programs, and much more. Click on the image or HERE to download the PDF.
2019 Annual Report 2020 Newsletter
2018 Annual Report
Annual Report 2017
2017 Newsletter
earthLines: 2017 Newsletter