Our Values

The Big Sur Land Trust’s work is guided by our new vision and the following set of values that flow from it:

  1. Ecological Well-Being: Ensuring our land and water is conserved for wildlife habitat and sustainable human economic and recreational uses.
  2. Community Vitality: Promoting community vitality by promoting local economic development and partnerships that support conservation of significant lands and waters; recognizing the role of food production as an essential ingredient of community; keeping options open for those who make a living from the land and water.
  3. Stewardship: Inspiring land and water conservation in all local citizens, especially in children; establishing learning opportunities that will motivate a new generation of people who desire to seek a living in direct connection with the land and its resources (e.g. farming, ranching, stewardship, etc.).
  4. Inspiring Stories: Taking the time to learn about and communicate the history and story of the places we are conserving; letting these stories inspire and inform our work.
  5. Healthy People: Providing all Monterey County citizens opportunities to experience lands and waters through healthy recreation, hands on stewardship, and farming and conservation education.
  6. Service: Finding opportunities to serve the many through our conservation work, especially landowners, partners and communities where powerful collaborations will lead to advancement of mutual goals and objectives.
  7. Fairness: Engaging with people/members of the community whose interests have been ignored or not served by the land conservation movement.
  8. Community Resilience/Viability: Accomplishing land and water conservation while preserving opportunities for a community to meet its housing and other infrastructure needs; maintaining economic viability in concert with land and water conservation.

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