About Us:

For more than 100 years, local leaders in communities across America have been working to save the riverbanks, meadows, woodlands, deserts, family farms, ranches and other natural lands that are treasured places in their community.

Then the leaders seized a powerful idea: to combine the local knowledge of people and places, the flexibility of the private sector, and the energy of volunteerism into one and they formed Land Trusts. Today there are approximately 1700 local and regional land trusts working in communities across America.

A land trust is a nonprofit organization that, as all, or part of its mission, actively works to conserve land by undertaking or assisting in land or conservation easement acquisition, or by its stewardship of such land or easements.

Mission:

Desert Foothills Land Trust connects people to nature by working with communities and partners to conserve and steward sensitive lands and species for the survival of our fragile Sonoran Desert.