The Rocky Mountain West is a geography of hope and opportunity. Today, we have enough wide-open spaces to support iconic wildlife, agricultural economies, and free-flowing rivers.
Yet, we are experiencing extraordinary economic and demographic pressure that will forever change the landscape and how it supports our economies and communities.
Heart of the Rockies serves as the collaborative backbone for 27 independent land trusts working in five states and two provinces: British Columbia, Alberta, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, Utah, and Washington.
Each land trust partner is deeply rooted in their local community and native ecosystem. They work only with willing landowners using voluntary agreements to conserve private land.
Private land conservation is crucial for maintaining open space important for agricultural production, wildlife habitat, and water availability.
Land trusts know how to do this work, but need capital to scale up solutions to meet current challenges. Our collaboration helps increase the pace of private land conservation.
We work to bring new funding into the landscape to support land trust operations and conservation projects, making conservation dollars go farther by leveraging this with regional, state, and federal matches.
We work on policies that support landowners and land trust work.
We network and support each other through learning and mentorship.
We help bring the latest science so land trust can make strategic decisions about where to invest their limited time and resources.
