CALIFORNIA

The Wilderness Land Trust Completes Catalog of California Inholdings

The Resources Legacy Fund provided the funds and The Wilderness Land Trust completed the work to inventory and prioritizes inholdings within the California Wild Heritage Act, a bill to designate additional wilderness throughout California.

As part of its Preserving Wild California program, the Resources Legacy Fund wanted to create this comprehensive information to help guide voluntary acquisition efforts. The Wilderness Land Trust is the recognized expert in completing such work having already completed prioritizations of inholdings within existing wilderness areas in multiple western states.

Acquisition Grant Approved!!!
A grant has been approved by the Board of the Resources Legacy Fund to provide money for the voluntary acquisition of high priority inholdings within proposed wilderness areas. With this support, The Wilderness Land Trust is able to pursue the acquisition of high priority inholdings within these proposed designated wilderness areas.

TWLT is aggressively addressing the issue of wilderness inholdings in California. Half of all inholdings within Forest Service designated wilderness areas are located in California. In the past year, we have transferred three wilderness inholdings to the Forest Service, making them part of the wilderness that surrounds them. The Wilderness Land Trust now owns 1280 acres of inholdings within designated wilderness areas in California awaiting transfer to the United States.