Healthy rancher

🌲Oregon’s conservation land trusts are bringing people together — across backgrounds, beliefs and boundaries — to protect the places we all depend on. From the Idaho border to the coast, nonprofits like the Oregon Desert Land Trust have partnered with ranchers, tribes and land managers to conserve 20,000+ acres of wild and working lands since 2017. Oregonians of starkly different backgrounds and politics support this work. Why? Because land trusts enable us to focus on what we can do together. “It gives me hope to see folks creating this common ground, focusing on things that contribute to healthy communities and a healthy environment, which are values that all of us share,” says ODLT Executive Director Brent Fenty. Rancher Hollie Henricks says her family’s lease with ODLT “has given our ranch so much flexibility in the way we graze our own place ... It just hasn’t been anything but good for us, and for our animals, too.” 🟢 Oregon Community Foundation supports this work through the Oregon Lands and People Project because we all share a connection to this place we call home. Roundhouse Foundation, YARG Foundation, Coalition of Oregon Land Trusts, Land Trust Alliance, Greenbelt Land Trust, Columbia Land Trust Photos: Brooke Gray and Oregon Desert Land Trust #CommonGround #OregonLandTrusts #BridgeBuilders #CommunityConservation #OregonDesertLandTrust #OCFImpact