February 3, 2025
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 19, 2024
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
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.
August 7, 2024
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.
February 15, 2024
Most defunct golf courses get paved over, but a number are getting transformed into ecological life rafts for wildlife, plants — and people
December 20, 2023
Palm Springs, CA - Oswit Land Trust (OLT) is thrilled to announce that it has been awarded a
$250,000 grant from the Strategic Growth Council’s (SGC) Sustainable Agricultural Lands Conservation
(SALC) Program in the fiscal year 2022-2023 (Round 9).
April 5, 2023
Palm Springs, CA – Trust for Public Land (TPL) and Oswit Land Trust (OLT) announced today the acquisition of an Agricultural Conservation Easement (ACE) on Alphabet Farms Ranch A – 1,888.07 acres of productive farmland in Imperial County, CA.
September 13, 2022
Oswit Land Trust didn’t waste any time in applying for its first grant that is needed to create the much anticipated Prescott Preserve.
August 2, 2022
ANOTHER victory for Oswit Land Trust, conservation, wildlife and hikers! Nearly 4 years ago, Oswit Land Trust saw a for sale sign go up on a 30 acre property adjacent to the wildly popular South Lykken hiking trail.
July 26, 2022
Several years ago Oswit Land Trust (OLT) shared with the community its vision of taking failing or closed golf courses and converting them to a beautiful nature preserve. Two of these golf courses, Bel Air Greens and Mesquite Golf, were actively for sale for development. OLT began diligently working on how to acquire both of these properties and save them as open space.
April 30, 2022
Oswit Land Trust (OLT), together with the Coachella Valley Mountains Conservancy (CVMC) and Coachella Valley Conservation Commission (CVCC) is thrilled to announce the conservation of over 3,000 acres of land above the Rimrock Vons shopping center known as “Palm Hills” and the “goat trails”.