Antelope Valley Conservancy

The preservation of functioning wildlife connectivity is a large goal, but our influence on regional planning and a proliferation of regional preservation projects is making this attainable. The Conservancy also preserves specific habitat types and specific critically important sites, many of which are watershed resources.

Antelope Valley Conservancy preserves lands three ways: We acquire lands with grant funding, we accept donations of land, and we operate a mitigation fulfillment program, satisfying government required mitigation that compensates the public for loss of resources to development. Fulfilling the Land Trust Standards and Practices and our motto -- "biological integrity, fiscal accountability, and community transparency" -- are the proven strategies to achieve our mission, proven by thousands of land trusts across America.

We like to say that we are small but mighty, and that is thanks to the community and regional professionals who step forward to move AVC's work forward. We have biologists who advise on preservation planning, some of whom are the renown experts in their area and species.

AVC's progress is evident in its increasing preserved acreage, improved board processes such as board training program, more streamlined efficiency in processing offers of donated lands and Applications for Mitigation Evaluation,, and the approval of the Rift Zone CAPP. We have doubled the acreage of our burrowing owl preserve, where a desert tortoise was found nesting, and we have embarked on the studies and funding to establish a new Joshua Tree Woodland Preserve.