We are very proud of what we have been able to accomplish, and we are enormously grateful to the many people and institutions whose vision and support have been so essential to our success – landowners, donors, including individuals, foundations, and state and local governmental agencies that have provided financial resources to help us protect Sublette County's agricultural heritage and preserve its spectacular landscapes. We also appreciate the efforts of volunteers.
Ten Ways You Can Help
1. Support local ranchers by contributing to our efforts in order to preserve working ranchlands.
2. Spread the word about the GRVLT and ranchland protection. Throughout the United States, nearly one million acres of farm and ranchland were bulldozed for sprawl development last year. Since its founding in 2000, the GRVLT has worked with landowners to conserve nearly 30,000 acres of Sublette County ranchland, but 336,000 acres of strategic ranchland are still at risk.
3. Maintain a tradition.
4. Rediscover Sublette County history.
5. Visit our office. If the subject of conservation easements is new to you, if you have questions or an interest in learning more about our work, visit us at 131 South Jackson Avenue (across from the Rocky Mountain Power yard) in beautiful, downtown Pinedale.
6. Be our eyes and ears. Clip and send us local coverage of ranchland issues. You can help us identify emerging threats to Sublette County ranchland.
7. Participate in our Conservation Buyer Program – as a realtor, buyer, or seller – in which we serve as a matchmaker to match conservation-worthy properties with buyers who have an interest in purchasing and protecting those properties.
8. Let your legislators know you care about preserving ranchland in Sublette County.
9. Volunteer! Contact the GRVLT
at 307-367-7007.
10. Support the GRVLT. Private contributions are the heart and soul of our success. Your annual gift provides the solid base of support that the GRVLT needs to perform its critical work – acquisition, stewardship and education. If you are already a donor, please continue your annual support and consider an extra gift to support our Protection Fund and a current protection project.
We are currently in various stages of negotiation with three dozen landowners owning more than 90,000 acres.
Contributions to our Operating Fund enable the GRVLT to "keep the lights on" and applies directly to the organization's day-to-day costs.
Contributions to our Protection Fund enable the GRVLT to work with ranching families interested in selling conservation easements. This enables GRVLT to:
- Add more acres to the critical mass of permanently protected Sublette County ranch land
- Match state, federal, and other sources of public conservation funding
- Help preserve Sublette County's nearly 200-year old heritage of family ranching
Contributions to our Stewardship Fund enable to GRVLT to meet its perpetual responsibility to uphold the conservation easements and work with landowners to stewart the protected properties. These contributions enable the GRVLT to:
- Purchase conservation easements on the most threatened properties
- Add more acres to the critical mass of permanently protected Sublette County farmland
- Match state, federal, and other sources of public conservation funding
- Help preserve Sublette County's nearly 150-year old heritage of family ranching
For further information, contact us.
