Land trusts are local, regional, statewide, or nationwide nonprofit organizations that are established to protect land and its resources. Their chief purpose is to permanently preserve lands that have an agricultural, ecological, scenic, historic, or recreational value.
Find a Land Trust in your area:

 

Agricultural Trust of Contra Costa County
American Land Conservancy
Brentwood Agricultural Land Trust
American River Conservancy
Cache Creek Conservancy
California Rangeland Trust
Central Valley Farmland Trust
Dry Creek Conservancy
El Rio Reyes Trust
Kings River Conservancy
Middle Mountain Foundation
Northern California Regional Land Trust
Placer Land Trust
Quail Ridge Wilderness Conservancy
Sacramento Valley Conservancy
San Joaquin Valley Conservancy
San Joaquin River Parkway and Conservation Trust
Sequoia Riverlands Trust
Shasta Land Trust
Sierra Foothill Conservancy
Solano Land Trust
The Nature Conservancy
Trust for Public Land
Tuolumne River Trust
Yolo Land Trust


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In 2001, four of the top five top counties in agricultural sales were from the Central Valley?

California has been the United States' #1 agricultural state for more than 50 years. In the Central Valley, agriculture and agriculturally-related activity accounts for 32.9% of all employment.