Why It Matters

The permanent protection of scenic, historic, and natural landscapes ensures wildlife and habitat survival, recreation in wild and beautiful places, and the livelihoods of surrounding communities. Faced with population growth, development pressure, energy infrastructure, extreme weather, and a changing climate, The Moore Charitable Foundation is committed to strategic partnerships that conserve open spaces and advance forest health to safeguard our natural environment and to ensure diverse species and abundant ecosystems for future generations.

Land & Forest Priorities

Land Conservation

The preservation of open spaces protects critical wetlands, forests and grasslands, and local economies and quality of life. The Moore Charitable Foundation furthers this open-space mandate by partnering with local and national conservation organizations and land trusts.

Forest Management and Wildfire Protection

With partners, The Moore Charitable Foundation advocates for forest health management practices, including controlled burning and thinning, that champion biodiversity, build resilience from fire and floods, and ensure the integrity of water resources. We also encourage gainful opportunities in the forest health sector.

Preventing Deforestation

The largely unregulated wood pellet industry is reacting to overseas demand by converting mature forests in the southeastern United States into energy plantations, clearcutting wetlands and coastal hardwood forests, and impacting local communities.The Moore Charitable Foundation is working with partners to fight the growth of this market.

2.1K

Acres

With support from The Moore Charitable Foundation, the Bread Loaf Preservation Fund preserved Middlebury's 2,100 acre campus and fields and forest through a conservation easement held by the Vermont Land Trust.

$2B

In Funding

Our land trust parters, specifically Colorado Cattlemen's Agricultural Land Trust, helped to secure provisions that increase funding for the Farm Bill's Agricultural Conservation Easement Program by $2 billion over 10 years.

30K

Acres

In 2019 with funder support, the Rio Grande Water Fund restored more than 30,000 acres of Northern New Mexico forests for the second consecutive year, mitigating devastating wildfire and guaranteeing downstream water.

2.1K
Acres

With support from The Moore Charitable Foundation, the Bread Loaf Preservation Fund preserved Middlebury's 2,100 acre campus and fields and forest through a conservation easement held by the Vermont Land Trust.
$2B
In Funding

Our land trust parters, specifically Colorado Cattlemen's Agricultural Land Trust, helped to secure provisions that increase funding for the Farm Bill's Agricultural Conservation Easement Program by $2 billion over 10 years.
30K
Acres

In 2019 with funder support, the Rio Grande Water Fund restored more than 30,000 acres of Northern New Mexico forests for the second consecutive year, mitigating devastating wildfire and guaranteeing downstream water.

“The Moore Charitable Foundation’s support has helped empower us to expanded our policy initiatives, build effective land trusts, develop strong conservation leaders and engage people to ensure land conservation remains relevant in our communities." — Mary Pope Hutson, former Executive Vice President, Land Trust Alliance

Community Conservation Leadership in New Mexico

The Taos Land Trust

Restoring the Southeast’s Longleaf Pine Ecosystem

National Fish and Wildlife Foundation’s Longleaf Stewardship Fund

Accelerating Landscape-scale Forest and Watershed Restoration of the Upper Rio Grande

Nature Conservancy New Mexico’s Rio Grande Water Fund

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Land and Forest News & Impact

Trinchera Blanca Foundation supports San Luis Valley Conservation Strategy

The Colorado Cattlemen’s Agricultural Land Trust announces a generous grant from Trinchera Blanca Foundation to help make additional conservation in Colorado’s San Luis Valley possible in 2020 and beyond.

Trinchera Blanca Foundation Renews Commitment to San Luis Valley Conservation Through Partnership with Colorado Open Lands

Colorado Open Lands announces renewed support from Trinchera Blanca Foundation for conservation work in the San Luis Valley, reflecting joint history of dedicated land, water and way-of-life protection.

Teaching Colorado Educators How to Include the Outdoors

Colorado Open Lands Teacher Training Workshop Each year, Colorado Open Lands (COL) leads a week-long intensive Teacher Training Workshop in the San Luis Valley for K-12 teachers from around the state