Land Trust of the Treasure Valley

Celebrate Earth Day with the Land Trust of the Treasure Valley! Make plans now to attend the Wild and Scenic Environmental Film Festival on Tour, the largest environmental film festival in North America. The Tour brings together award-winning environmental films in a spirit of inspiration and education. Come discover what your local land trust is doing to conserve the wild and scenic places out your backdoor and how you can get involved.

The Land Trust of the Treasure Valley’s mission is to create opportunities for conserving the natural, scenic, recreational, historic and agricultural values of southwestern Idaho’s open spaces through collaborative efforts for current and future generations.

The Land Trust identifies lands with special natural, scenic, recreational and agricultural values, and works with willing landowners to conserve these lands through acquisition, easement, education, and good stewardship.

The Hidden Springs Community contains over 900 acres of natural open space which includes wetlands, farm, Dry Creek and Currant Creek with associated habitat corridors and mid elevation foothills areas. The Land Trust will be assisting the Town Association in managing these lands. The project fits nicely into our Dry Creek Watershed Initiative which focuses on assuring a healthy watershed for people and wildlife.

Proposed Idaho Land Swap Exposes Shifting Attitudes, Shifting Economics: Idaho panhandle residents are up in arms over a possible land deal between the Forest Service and Yellowstone Club founder Tim Blixseth.

By Jonathan Weber , 7-22-09 on Newwest.net

http://www.newwest.net/city/article/idaho_forest_land_swap_riles_the_pal...

Read and Engaging Report "Conservation: An Investment that Pays" by the Trust for Public Land

http://www.lttv.org/index.php?q=system/files/EconBenefitsReport_7_2009.p...

The Land Trust is partnering with the community of Star to create the first segment of the Star River Walk, a corridor of nature and trails along the Boise River. Our work includes helping the community create a community vision for the river corridor and implementing the first phase. Mayor Nathan Mitchell recently said, "...we have some great experts with the Land Trust and Sage Land Consultants." Scroll down and click on "read more" to learn about the project.

In the Spring of 2007 the Ada County Commissioners convened an Open Space Task Force to conduct a study of open space areas and the tools need to conserve land. An Open Space Task Force Report was released on April 22, 2008.

A series of community meetings were then held throughout Ada County to inform citizens of the report’s findings and get community feedback. The Land Trust, in partnership with Idaho Smart Growth and Idaho Conservation League, have released the findings of this community outreach in a report called the Heart of Our Valley. While it is not meant to be a statistically valid public opinion survey, it continues to illustrate strong support for conservation of natural areas and the desire to find solutions.