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West Avon Preserve

Alpaca from Big Hat Alpaca Ranch in McCoy, CO

A potential conservation easement property.

Your donation makes a permanent impact on conservation in our great community. Please schedule your donation now to support scenic beauty, recreation, habitat, clean water and community health in Eagle County by by clicking the link below.

Support EVLT This Year

Your Donation will be Matched if you Schedule it by December 8th

EVLT raises most of its operating funds during the last 2 months of each year!

We participate in Colorado Gives Day which will stretch your donation if you make it by December 8th. You can Schedule your online donation today and make an impact on local land conservation.

By joining other conservation-minded donors on Colorado Gives Day, your donation will have the greatest possible impact. A portion of the $1 Million Colorado Gives Day incentive fund - one of the largest in the country - increases the value of every donation.

Whether you are a new or returning donor, your support is critical , appreciated, and goes a long way to preserving the character this community we love so much.

Join in support of EVLT and you will make a huge impact! You help us steward our existing conserved lands and work to protect more land, wildlife habitat, ranches, and public access to nature in Eagle County.

EVLT and Eagle County lead a tour of the conserved Horn Ranch on October 18, 2015. Photo: Justin Q. McCarty/Vail Daily

The Annual 28 and Counting

Eagle Valley Land Trust has finished this year's annual monitoring of our community's conserved properties, and they look great. This summer, over 100 staff hours were spent on the land, helping protect and sustain some of your favorite places in the valley. We'd like to thank all of our landowners who have partnered with Eagle Valley Land Trust to steward their properties so well this year, and we look forward to continuing to uphold our stewardship promise to our community. We would also like to thank our generous donors and supporters who make these critical efforts possible.

Land conservation is not finished once a conservation easement is complete.

Click here to learn more about our Land Stewardship program.

Farewell to Matt Stern

Farewell to Matt Stern our Stewardship Specialist extraordinaire! He's on to try out a different potential career path just down the street. Matt did a fantastic job in his nearly 1.5 years with EVLT. He firmly reinvigorated an in-house monitoring program, made great impressions on the landowners with whom we deal, was an enthusiastic fundraiser, and a true jack of all trades. We'll miss you Matt and you've always got friends at EVLT.

Working in collaboration with Walking Mountains Science Center, Matt Stern leads a class of EVLT's "Future Conservationists" Program.

Did you know...?

The Land and Water Conservation Fund has been defunded.

Since 1965, federal revenue from oil and gas leases has been used to help acquire about seven million acres of land and easements for more than 41,000 projects in 50 states...now the funding is up for grabs... Do you think conservation will win this funding back?

Click here for more information from the Land and Water Conservation Fund website.

Click here for an article from the Wall Street Journal.

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Planned Giving Options

Have you included Eagle Valley Land Trust in your will?

If so, please let us know so that we may thank you during your lifetime.

Thinking of leaving a legacy of land conservation?

Consider adding EVLT as a beneficiary of your IRA.

For other planned giving options please click here.

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Yours in conservation,

Eagle Valley Land Trust

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