Harvey Ranch

Announcement

We did it! Thanks to thousands of donors and conservation partners we raised the $4M needed to purchase Harvey Ranch. Thank you to everyone who contributed and made this campaign a huge success. Stay tuned for our public opening in late spring!

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The Campaign to Save Harvey Ranch is one of the most consequential efforts in JMLT's thirty-year history. Acquiring and permanently protecting Harvey Ranch's 126 acres promises a new gateway to 15,000 acres of pristine wilderness, a critical buffer for wildlife habitat, new staging areas, trailheads, and trail connections, and so much more.

Forming the natural backdrop to Saint Mary’s College of California in Moraga, Harvey Ranch is an easy gateway into the difficult-to-reach wilderness formed by Las Trampas Regional Wilderness and the San Leandro Watershed. Protecting the ranch will make accessible superb trails with exceptional views, and provide a necessary buffer between essential wildlife habitat and encroaching residential development.

Our Collective Opportunity

A few minutes spent in daily traffic on the once-rural roads of Lamorinda make it clear that the area is booming. Population pressure grows as each new home is built and new traffic light installed. Protecting Harvey Ranch is a rare opportunity to save a landscape that is a critical conservation milestone— a gem to be spared from bulldozer, concrete, and asphalt.

A protected Harvey Ranch will open a wilderness adventure to nature lovers of all ages and abilities, while safeguarding wildlife habitat from residential encroachment. Short walks will be rewarded with stunning views. Hikers seeking strenuous excursion will explore miles of trails in diverse terrain. Equestrians will discover excellent ranch roads used for over a century.

$4Million

CAMPAIGN GOAL

DEADLINE
December 31, 2022

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Protecting Wildlife

Residential development is needed and inevitable. But we must develop in sensible places. The wild residents of our region need Harvey Ranch. The ranch protects habitat for threatened and endangered species such as the Alameda whipsnake and the California red-legged frog. These lands harbor gray foxes, deer, opossums, raccoons, gophers, jackrabbits, weasels, bobcats, and skunks. Soaring raptors include red-tailed and Cooper’s hawks, American kestrels, and golden eagles. Your support will protect one of the remaining thriving refuges for native wildlife in our metropolitan area.