What We Do

"MLLT believes that land should be properly managed to restore and maintain healthy ecosystems while at the same time ensuring optimum production. We are glad that conservation easements can ensure that land is managed responsibly in perpetuity.”

~ Dan Port, Past President and current MLLT Advisory Board Member

MLLT helps to protect agricultural and range lands, historic and scenic sites, and natural habitats. MLLT works with willing sellers to craft win-win solutions that ensure continued agricultural, open, and natural spaces for future generations.

The Mother Lode Land Trust currently holds conservation easements totaling just near 10,000 acres in Alpine, Amador, Calaveras, El Dorado, and Tuolumne Counties. MLLT is also the landowner of the 187-acre C&C Ranch near Jackson, the 375-acre Deer Creek Hills Preserve extension near Rancho Murieta, and the 575-acre Long Gulch Ranch near Groveland. We also have a small Cosumnes River parcel of ten acres and finalized the purchase of the Erickson Ranch,167 acres, in 2022.