Protecting
agricultural lands, wildlife habitat, and open space in and around Mesa County
Latest
News and Events:
Founders John & Doris
Butler retire from MLT Board after 29 years!
It
was a poignant evening at our monthly Board meeting when Mesa Land Trust
founder John Butler announced his retirement from the Mesa Land Trust
Board. In 1980 John and Doris Butler, with a handful of others, founded
Mesa Land Trust to help conserve the critical farm ground in Palisade. And
at that time, perhaps unbeknownst to them, they made a lifelong commitment.
Leading by example, the Butlers donated a conservation easement on their own
farm which now grows peaches. John spent at least 600 hours (that's 25
days!) attending Board meetings alone over the past 29 years...and that
doesn't include the countless hours he and Doris spent volunteering,
monitoring, accounting, and working on projects! Doris and John plan to
remain active with the Land Trust. We thank them for having the foresight
to establish Mesa Land Trust and the determination to help make sure Mesa
Land Trust enjoys the success that we do today. Thank you John and Doris,
from all of us, for all your dedication!
MLT Receives GOCO Grant
Mesa Land Trust
recently received a grant from Great Outdoors Colorado (GOCO) for
conservation agreements on 3 contiguous farms in the Fruita buffer. The
acquisition of these agreements will add roughly 75 acres to 490 acres of
working farms and ranches already conserved between Grand Junction and
Fruita.Read more about the GOCO grants
on the Grand Junction Daily Sentinel.
State distributes grants for trails.
Buy Products from a Local Conserved Farm!
You can now find
local produce, meat,
and other
products all from local conserved ground! Landowners throughout
Colorado are now listed in a publication titled Bountiful Conservation: A guide to Colorado products and services from
conserved lands.
Use this
guide to find farms and ranches that offer the products and services you are
looking for, as well as supporting landowners who view conservation as a
high priority! Connect to the
Bountiful Conservation website,
or view a
pdf of the publication.
Mesa Land Trust's 2007-2008 Annual Report
Mesa Land Trust has
published it's 2007-2008 Annual Report. Please CLICK
HERE to view this report. If you want a copy of this
sent to you please call us at (970)263-5443.
Photos of
Our Annual Picnic Potluck
On Sunday we enjoyed
a beautiful day on Ute Valley Ranch, a conserved property on Glade Park.
Under sunshine and rolling clouds over 150 members, landowners and friends
joined us to celebrate and learn about the great conservation success we
enjoy in Mesa County. Thanks to all that attended and contributed to
the event.
Click here
to link to our Flickr page with photos of our Annual Picnic Potluck, and
please share the pictures with your friends and neighbors!
Mesa Land Trust Receives National Accreditation
On Tuesday April 7th,
Mesa Land Trust board of directors, staff, supporters, and members of the
press met in from of Mesa Land Trust's office at 1006 Main St. in Grand
Junction for the announcement that the Land Trust had recently received
accreditation from the National Accreditation Commission. With this
announcement the Land Trust can now display Accreditation Seal, which
assures the public that the land trust is operating an ethical, legal, and
technically sound manner.
Mesa Land Trust Partners With
Mesa County Libraries to Present Family Story Time Every Last Tuesday
of the Month
From 7:00 to 8:00 PM on
the last Tuesday of each month, Mesa Land Trust will sponsor Family
Story Time at the Mesa County Library Central
Branch Children’s Center. Former school teacher and
Land Trust board member Angelina Salazar will read to children and present
activities which will focus on conservation and the environment. There will
also be a list of suggested adult readings on the subject.
For more information,
please call Mesa Land Trust Development Officer, Mary Hughes, at 263.5443.
StoryCorps
Highlights founders of MLT: Fighting for Family Farms
This past year
StoryCorps hosted
interviews on Main Street in Grand
Junction. Amongst those telling their stories were Doris Butler and
Paula Anderson. In this interview they discuss the seeds for founding Mesa
Land Trust and the fight to save farms in and around Grand Junction.
Read the article
here.
Read our Newsletter
Our newsletter, The Landline, has stories about
conservation easements, different partnerships and programs which we are
working with, and other information and stories about the workings of the
land trust. For newsletter archives,
click here.
Mesa Land Trust is a private, nonprofit land conservation organization based in Mesa County,
Colorado. We work to maintain the unique character, agriculture and
history of Mesa County through partnerships with voluntary landowners, local
governments, Mesa County, The Nature Conservancy and a variety of outside
funding agencies. We now hold over 130 conservation easements and have
conserved over 50,000 acres of land containing important orchards, vineyards,
cropland, large working ranches, and habitat for deer, elk and the Gunnison Sage
Grouse in addition to a variety of other species.
Click hereto see pictures
of conserved properties, people, and events.
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Fan on Facebook
Mesa Land Trust now
has a page on Facebook, a social networking site.
Click here to become fan of
Mesa Land Trust and see postings of
events, news, photos, and join in discussions with other fans about
conservation in our community.
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Learn More About Conserved Properties
Here in Mesa County we have some beautiful vistas,
exceptional habitat and productive agricultural properties. We are all
fortunate that there are generous and concerned landowners who have donated
conservation easements on their properties. To learn more about some of these
properties, click
here.
Mesa Land Trust, 1006 Main
Street, Grand Junction, CO 81501
This site was last updated on
Wednesday July 01, 2009 by
Ilana