Working Lands
Credit: Arna Johnson
The nation's farms, ranches, and forests yield food food and timber, support local economies, safeguard clean water, and comprise some of our most beautiful landscapes. A working landscape may be a Western forest of tens of thousands of acres, an emerald mosaic of ranchland in the shadow of the Rocky Mountains, or the last farm in a New England town, supplying healthy food while linking the community to its rural past.
Such lands are too important to be lost to poorly planned development. The Trust for Public Land works with landowners, agencies, and communities to keep working lands working while preserving their environmental benefits—often through the use of conservation easements that prevent development while permitting ranching, farming, and sustainable forestry to continue. The result: lands that continue to support our bodies, industries, spirits, and communities, and foster a healthy, vibrant agricultural system.
Explore some of our working lands projects below. Choose a state to get started.
Sulphur Creek Ranch
In 2005, TPL protected the 160-acre Sulphur Creek Ranch, including much of Sulphur Creek, in the headwaters of the Middle Fork Salmon River drainage. read more »Sun Ranch
In 2008 The Trust for Public Land protected 11,000 acres of Sun ranch, located between the Madison River and the Lee Metcalf Wilderness Area read more »Sunset Farm
TPL helped Narragansett, Rhode Island preserve Sunset Farm along the tidal estuary of Champlin Cove as a recreational resource and the site of a community agricultural program. read more »Sunset Ranch
Sunset Ranch is a piece of the larger puzzle to "keep the country country" on the North Shore of O'ahu. read more », spirits, and communities and foster a healthy, vibrant agricultural system.
