Thanks to exceedingly generous donors and challenge gifts, we are well on our way to exceeding $100,000 for our Promise to the Future campaign, supporting OLT’s Operating Endowment to allow us to grow and protect even more land for the future. Your gift, dedicated to the Operating Endowment, will let us generate investment income to keep us growing […]
Tag Archives: land conservation
OLT President Interview: Candid Talk with Jacob Reby
Over the course of our four decades of conservation successes, we’ve had seven community leaders who have served to move Ozark Land Trust forward. We continue our 40th Anniversary celebration of the leaders whose visionary work has helped fueled OLT’s success. This month, we visit with Jacob “Jake” Reby, one of OLT’s presidents in the […]
Another Beautiful Piece of Land Protected
OLT has just completed yet another Conservation Easement in the Huzzah Creek watershed of the Meramec River! Another 114 acres in the beautiful Huzzah, known for its natural beauty, floating and agricultural/grazing lands, is now permanently protected. OLT has worked for over two decades with private landowners who have voluntarily decided to keep their lands free of […]
OLT’s Annual Meeting
Several dozen OLT Board, staff, members and guests joined us in June for our Annual Members Meeting in St. Louis County. The day started with a hike on one of our newest conservation easement properties. Landowner Wes Fordyce led a tour of his magnificent land along the Missouri River. More than 30 people showed up […]
Celebrating Another Easement
After adding three more conservation easements last December, OLT just completed a project in close partnership with the Missouri Department of Conservation. Two years ago, as a result of a federal environmental settlement, OLT took ownership of a nearly 500-acre piece of land in Reynolds County, MO. The property is located next to Logan Creek Conservation Area. […]
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 […]
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 […]