It’s our bread and butter—
protecting land.
From coastal estuaries to the upper reaches of the Cascade, our coalition members restore watersheds for migrating salmon and steelhead. Land trusts in the Willamette Valley are helping to protect and restore the remaining 1% of native oak prairie habitat. In Southern Oregon, the State’s oldest land trust is safeguarding hundreds of acres of the rare plant species in the Siskiyou mountains, an area of diversity likened to the Galapagos islands. Travel east and you’ll find land trusts working with ranch owners to protect the last remaining high-elevation native prairies, or securing connected habitat for threatened birds like the sage grouse.
Our members work in service to Oregon’s land—and the benefits it provides all of us. Conservation strategies across the state are diverse, from restoring and connecting lands to preventing the decline of threatened species. And our coalition members work in partnership with landowners, local, state, federal and tribal governments and community partners to save and steward special places.
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Our members work in service to Oregon’s land—and the benefits it provides all of us.
Why conserve land?

Policy Advocacy at Work
Permanent reauthorization and full dedicated funding.
Photo Credit: Rick McEwan, 2008
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Greenbelt Land Trust. Bobcat at Bald Hill Farm
Credit: Jonny Armstrong
Members at Work
The Deschutes Land Trust literally reshaped and restored 6 miles of Whychus Creek to help bring salmon back to the region.
Two hikers take a break next to Whychus Creek at Whychus Canyon Preserve. By Tyler Roemer
Coho salmon. Rick Swart/Oregon Deparment of Fish and Wildlife
In 2018, for the first time in 40 years wild coho salmon were found in the Lostine River in Wallowa County on land protected by the Wallowa Land Trust. (Watch our Wild Possibilities film for the story!)
On their Rogue River Preserve in Jackson County, the Southern Oregon Land Conservancy is using plastic gourds to create needed habitat for purple martins.
A purple martin rests on a gourd. Photo courtesy U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service