Tag: california conservation

CONSERVING YOUR LEGACY RECAP​

On June 5th in San Luis Obispo, the California Rangeland Trust hosted the first of a series of succession planning workshops titled, “Conserving Your Legacy”. The workshop featured a collection of landowners and experts to discuss the crucial process of estate planning for ranching families.

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Your Voice, Everyone’s Future​

Every year, the Rangeland Trust Staff and Board visit various parts of the state to engage with conservation partners, landowners, peers, supporters, and community leaders to understand what’s important and relevant in the places where we work.

Since it’s hard for our team to set foot in all 58 counties of this beautiful state, we also aim to open channels for you to reach out to us and let us know what’s on your mind. Sometimes this is encouraged through surveys, donation forms, or often just through our website. The point is, we love to hear from you!

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SILACCI RANCH: KEEPING BEEF ON THE PLATE​

In the Salinas Valley of California, known as the “Salad Bowl of the World”, a local ranching family is helping to ensure that there will always be protein on the plate.

For over 140 years, the Silacci family has called the Valley home – beginning when patriarch Bautista Silacci immigrated to Monterey County. After living in Moss Landing in the early 1880s, he decided to move inland to Salinas to work at a local dairy. In 1887, seizing an opportunity to establish roots on the land and in the industry, he purchased the dairy. Together, he and his family raised dairy cattle and cultivated various crops, contributing to the Valley’s notorious bounty.

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BONUS: Celebrating 20 Years of PORT!

Two decades ago, six land trusts formed the Partnership of Rangeland Trusts (PORT) to protect private rangelands across the West. Today, with nine member organizations spanning 12 states, PORT continues its mission of conserving working lands and preserving western heritage. As PORT marks its 20th anniversary, this bonus episode of Tuned In to the Land features PORT members’ leadership Erik Glenn, Jessica Crowder, and Chad Ellis, who discuss the critical role PORT plays in safeguarding farms, ranches, and open spaces for future generations.

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Season 3 Episode 7: Educate & Expose

For this episode, Michael Delbar, CEO & host, sits down Rizpah Bellard. Together the duo goes over what Rizpah plans to do with her new-found platform, how her work and experience as a rancher, she has devoted her time to connecting with under-served communities to teach them that they too can be a cowboy or cowgirl and have a love for/connection to the land and our industry.

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Season 3 Episode 6: Stronger Together

In our latest episode, CEO and host, Michael Delbar sits down with Shannon Douglass, the new President of the California Farm Bureau. From regulatory hurdles to economic pressures, the duo discusses how these challenges impact the industry and what can be done to support the agricultural community. Shannon also shares her insights on the Farm Bureau’s efforts and the importance of collective action in building a stronger future for agriculture.

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Keegan Ranch: Ensuring Nature’s Colorful Tradition

Along the Valley floor between Three Sisters Summit and Walker Ridge in Colusa County lies a 10-mile stretch of rangeland, otherwise known as the Bear Valley. This landscape is not visible by freeways or main thoroughfares, yet every spring thousands of people flock to the area to catch a glimpse of some of the best remaining panoramas of Northern California’s wildflowers. These springtime super blooms have been around longer than many even realize thanks in part to the diligent stewardship of local, ranching families, like the Keegan family.

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