About LandPaths

LandPaths is an environmental education and conservation leader with the mission to foster a love of the land in Sonoma County. We believe everyone should have access to the awe and inspiration of nature.

Annually, we engage thousands of participants like you in joyful, caring, and transformative relationship with the land. We do this mainly through creative outings led in both English and Spanish, environmental education, nature camps, and people-powered land stewardship of local open spaces.

Land Acknowledgement

Our community gardens, office, and preserves throughout Sonoma County are located on the ancestral homelands of the Southern Pomo, Coast Miwok, Dry Creek Rancheria Band of Pomo Indians, and Mishewal people, past, present, and future. We recognize them as the first people and the first stewards of this land.

Initiatives

Rooting Youth in Nature

LandPaths significantly reduces the barriers and expands opportunities to get outside so that more youth are able to experience wonder, joy, awe, belonging, and connection in nature.

Branching Out Conservation for Everyone

LandPaths expands the amount of people in Sonoma County who benefit from healthy land, understand the value of nature, and cultivate a sense of wanting to care for the land that gives so much back to us.

Community Care

Growing Community with Nature

Wildfires, flooding, and other challenges have dramatically increased globally and locally because of human-caused climate change. Reciprocal and joyful relationships between people and the land is a solution to climate disruption. From volunteer land stewardship days to community gatherings in local open spaces, you’ll find a range of creative, impactful opportunities to participate with LandPaths and make a difference.

Featured Outings

Refresh the Redwoods at Rancho Mark West

  • Day: Wednesday, August 7
  • Time: 9am – 1pm
  • Place: Rancho Mark West, Santa Rosa

In 2021, hundreds of LandPaths’ volunteers planted 4400 redwood saplings at our Rancho Mark West Preserve. This was to replace the hundreds of trees that unfortunately died after the Glass Fire swept through the preserve. More than two years after that epic planting, many of the trees have survived and with the dry season, they need to be watered. By hand! That’s where you come in!

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Help Tend the Garden at Ocean Song

  • Day: Sunday, August 11
  • Time:11:30am – 3:30pm (you can leave early if you need to!) 
  • Place: Ocean Song Preserve, Occidental

The pollinator and habitat garden at Ocean Song/Myers is a truly magical place. You are invited to experience the land as you help tend the garden, a home for myriad blooms, bees, and birds (so many birds!) Activities depend on the season, and might include invasive species removal, pruning, mulching, mowing and other seasonal needs.

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Full Moon Hike at Bohemia Ecological Preserve

  • Day: Monday, August 19
  • Time: 6:45pm – 9pm
  • Place: Bohemia Ecological Preserve, Occidental
  • Led by docents Lindsey and Franny

Join us for an evening hike in Bohemia to celebrate the first super moon of the year! We will enjoy the setting sun and rising moon from the Top of the World.
This will be a moderate hike and we recommend good walking shoes, layers, water and snacks to keep you hydrated, nourished and comfortable on this outing.

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Late Summer Hike at Lafferty Ranch

  • Day: Saturday, August 24
  • Time: 9am – 11:30am
  • Place: Lafferty Ranch, Petaluma
  • Free/Gratis
  • Led by docent Larry Modell

By late August, the creeks still flow on Sonoma Mountain, providing a lifeline to wildlife. Explore this unique property and discuss its future with docent and long-time public open space advocate Larry Modell. This 270-acre property is the only publicly owned land on the west side of Sonoma Mountain. Under contract with the City of Petaluma, Landpaths has been leading hikes on the land to introduce groups to its history and natural features since the summer of 2022.

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Stories + News

Stories from the Field

How LandPaths Gets Ready for Summer Nature Camp Season

June 24, 2024

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The morning sun peeks through the coastal clouds, birds caw and sing from their perches in the surrounding oaks, and 40 LandPaths’ staff and volunteers gather in the meadow at Bohemia Ecological Preserve for a daylong training […]

Protected: Community Partnership: Worker Leaders with North Bay Jobs with Justice Create Fuel Breaks at a LandPaths’ Preserve

June 18, 2024

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Remembering Lorri Duckworth

April 30, 2024

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Lorri Duckworth was one of those small family farmers who genuinely loved her produce. Even more so, she loved how people from all over the Bay Area, […]

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