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May 22, 2025

The Wildlife Conservation Board approves $3,480,000 grant for Prescott Preserve – Ecological Restoration (Phase 1)

The Wildlife Conservation Board has approved a $3,480,000 grant for the Oswit Land Trust to restore 28 acres of habitat at Prescott Preserve, a former golf course in Palm Springs. The project focuses on desert woodlands and scrub. Key activities include design finalization, surveys, and monitoring, aiming to transform the land into a nature preserve.

February 3, 2025

Oswit Land Trust Acquires Rabbit Bush Trail in Desert Hot Springs

Although small in stature, only about 20 acres, Rabbit Brush Trail in Desert Hot Springs provides an important buffer zone to already preserved lands owned by the Coachella Valley Conservation Commission to the west.

November 26, 2024

Oswit Land Trust and Mesquite Country Club HOA reach an agreement.

Palm Springs, CA: Oswit Land Trust (OLT) and Mesquite Country Club (MCC) are pleased to share with the community that after 2 years of litigation regarding the former golf course, now known as Prescott Preserve, we have reached an agreement in principle, and the lawsuits between the parties are soon to be in the past.

November 19, 2024

Oswit Land Trust Expands Conservation Easements to 6,300 Acres

Palm Springs, CA – Oswit Land Trust (OLT) has completed its second agricultural conservation easement in Imperial County, CA, on Alphabet Farms Ranch F - consisting of roughly 4,400 acres of productive farmland. This additional easement expands OLT’s stewardship of agricultural land to over 6,300 acres, and protects this precious farmland from future development in perpetuity. This additional 4,400 acres is Oswit Land Trust’s largest conservation project to date, and brings the current total of land protected by the organization to over 10,000 acres.

September 11, 2024

Oswit Land Trust Does it Again! 165 Spectacular Acres Saved in Western Riverside County

Palm Springs, CA – Oswit Land Trust (OLT), a land trust based in Palm Springs, California, that focuses on saving the fragile desert ecosystem in Coachella Valley and beyond, is proud to announce the acquisition of 639 acres in Indio Hills, CA.