Help us Protect the Moore Cave System

Help Protect Missouri’s Hidden Treasure: The Moore Cave System   Join Ozark Land Trust in safeguarding one of Missouri’s most biologically significant cave systems and endangered species. Ozark Land Trust is working to conserve an 80-acre property in Perry County, Missouri, that holds the entrance to the remarkable Moore Cave System. This land is critical […]

Promise Campaign Raises $250,000

As OLT celebrated 40 years, there was a concerted campaign launched to focus on enhancing our operating endowment. Protecting land in perpetuity means being prepared with enough in reserves to make sure we can weather whatever comes our way. To do that, we need a robust endowment. Thanks to the gifts of the contributors listed […]

Perspectives: Former Executive Director Peggy Horner

By Peggy Horner Working for Ozark Land Trust was the pinnacle of my conservation career.  As I child, I knew from my early reckoning that I wanted to be a wildlife biologist. I succeeded in achieving that dream first as a researcher tracking black bears in the mountains of North Carolina, then focusing on endangered […]

Promise for the Future

Our Promise for the Future campaign is about supporting the FOREVER protection of lands throughout the Ozarks. To learn more:

Turquoise blue spring with cliffs beside it

An Interview with Jim Reeves

Five Questions with Jim Reeves Jim Reeves (Board President 2018-2021), is the Principal at Clear Bridge Consulting, providing mediation, facilitation and conflict management services to individuals, businesses and not-for-profit organizations. As an attorney with litigation and executive leadership experience, Jim has been a mediator for over 20 years, mediating business and legal disputes and convening […]

evergreen trees lining a path in the forest

Origins Small and Large

Eureka Springs, AR Andy Thomas, longtime board member and leader of Ozark Land Trust Eureka Springs, Arkansas has always had a quirky but very strong environmental movement. Folks that live there cherish the rugged mountain scenery, trees, wildlife, and waterways, along with its unique regional history. They want to enjoy what they have been given […]

Regenerative Ag Before its Time

New Pear Farm, AR Andy Thomas When the Johnson Pear Farm was founded in 1908, it was miles from Fayetteville. These days, Ozark Land Trust’s historic New Pear Farm (as it is now called) is just beyond Fayetteville’s City Limit. Over the decades, Ben Johnson and his sister Anne Prichard, multi-generation family owners, witnessed chunk […]

Habitat Mitigation

Washington County, MO Can we mitigate the harm of development on wildlife? A practice pursued under the federal Endangered Species Act attempts to do just that. When a listed species is found in the path of a utility line or building project the developer is often required to protect habitat for the species elsewhere to […]

Farms and Watersheds… Forever

Huzzah Creek, MO Rachel Hopkins and her family own hundreds of agricultural acres on Huzzah Creek, where OLT and its partners have protected and provided restoration and erosion protection on well over 1,000 acres of critical Ozark lands. In today’s world, generational farms and ranches are becoming relics of the past. As the older generations […]