California faces one of the most overburdened water systems in the world.
Trust for Public Land is scaling our impact in California to strengthen water resilience so communities can count on clean water, healthy landscapes, and increased preparedness for a changing climate.
Our statewide strategies meet the moment with bold, integrated, and equity-centered solutions.
Connecting water, land, and park projects to durable public funding.
We combine public funding and private philanthropic investments to scale nature-based water solutions. From statewide bond measures to local initiatives, we’re shaping the next generation of conservation finance so every dollar goes further, delivering water resilience and equity at scale.
Advancing nature-based solutions that restore ecosystems and support healthy communities.
We prioritize projects that protect source waters, groundwater, floodplains, and habitat corridors. In cities, we design parks and schoolyards that capture and filter stormwater, reduce urban heat, and expand equitable access to nature while building climate-ready communities.
Building cross-sector partnerships across California.
We collaborate with Indigenous communities, agricultural leaders, water agencies, local communities, and policymakers to create multi-benefit water solutions that advance climate resilience and equity throughout the state.
California’s water challenges don’t stop at regional boundaries. As water scarcity, habitat loss, and catastrophic wildfire impacts intensify, we’re drawing on over fifty years of experience to partner with communities in directing investments where they are most urgently needed and impactful.
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Land has meaning. It tells the story of our history. Too often, the story we tell starts when Europeans arrived. It leaves out thousands of years of experience, and it ignores that every treasured national park, every road, and every city occupies the ancestral homeland of Native people who remain here today.
Over 70 Native American tribes and Indigenous communities have honored Trust for Public Land by allowing us to work with them to return access, stewardship and ownership of important lands and be open to how our work can best advance tribal language and culture. TPL will continue to build relationships with tribal and Indigenous communities, and work to advance their priorities for land. We see this work as central to our core commitments to community and equity and will seek to weave the resulting insights and progress throughout everything we do.
Learn about our work to Restore Sacred Lands to Tribal and Indigenous Communities
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Nestled between the bustling San Francisco Bay Area and sunny communities of Southern California lies a beautiful but overlooked region: California’s Central Coast. As climate change tightens its grip on the state, charting a sustainable future for the Central Coast is critical to ensure the wellbeing of communities and meet California’s climate resilience goals.
Partners and policymakers can use TPL’s findings to guide strategic, equitable investment in the outdoors to create a more climate resilient Central Coast.
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When we conserve lands, we’re doing more than saving precious natural areas. Each acre helps address the climate crisis, as trees, plants, and soils act as a carbon reservoir. Permanently protected lands also support community resilience to climate change: improving water and air quality; protecting essential water supplies that communities depend on; and preserving biodiversity.
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Parks are essential for public health, climate resilience and strong connected communities. We have the data to pinpoint where they are needed the most.
TPL works alongside tribal and indigenous communities, water agencies, community-based organizations, and land stewards to co-create solutions that advance water resilience, equity, and environmental justice across regions.
Moisés Moreno-Rivera
Senior Program Manager – California Government Affairs
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Greer Monteverde
Associate Director of Institutional Giving, Philanthropy
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Andy Orellana
Associate Director of Media Relations
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