The Southern Plains Land Trust creates and protects a network of shortgrass prairie preserves, which ensure a future for all native animals and plants.
Our aim in 2019 is to raise $1,000,000 to complete the expansion of Heartland Ranch to more than 18,000 acres.
Check out the numbers below to track the progress we’re making. Please be a hero to prairie wildlife by giving today.
Initial Project Cost:$2,252,236
Funding Raised: $1,408,486
Remaining Funds Needed for Payoff of Loans: $843,750
$325 per acre (1 acre = 43,560 sq ft)
Thank you to Great Outdoors Colorado & the Colorado State Lottery for generously supporting this project.
Please note that the thermometer above will be updated weekly.
Habitat is vanishing, leaving wildlife with no place to go.
Here’s our solution: Buy the Land.
The Southern Plains Land Trust purchases land for prairie wildlife. It’s that simple. So far, we’ve protected over 25,000 acres in our preserve network, providing urgently needed refuge to a wide variety of native grassland animals and plants. Our largest preserve is Heartland Ranch. At nearly 30 square miles, this wildlife refuge is one of the largest of its kind in the southern Great Plains. Piece by piece, we are restoring the American Serengeti.
SPLT is a member of the Land Trust Alliance, accredited by the Land Trust Accreditation Commission, certified by the State of Colorado to hold conservation easements, and a member of the Nature Needs Half Network.
CONTACT US
Southern Plains Land Trust (SPLT)
PO Box 1016, Lamar, CO 81052
217.621.6007
splt@southernplains.org
A special thanks to the SPLT photographers!