About LandPaths
LandPaths is an environmental education and conservation leader with the mission is 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.


Initiatives






Community Care
Growing Community with Nature
Challenges like catastrophic wildfires and flooding are dramatically increasing due to human-caused climate change. Reciprocal and joyful relationships between people and the land is one of the solutions. From volunteer land stewardship days focused on wildlife fuel reduction to community gatherings in local open spaces, you’ll find a range of creative, impactful opportunities to get involved with caring for the land and community in Sonoma County.


Featured Outings
Seasonal Celebration at Rancho Mark West
- Day: Sunday, December 10
- Time: 10am – 3pm (open-house style)
- Place: Rancho Mark West, Santa Rosa
LandPaths and our friends at Ag & Open Space, California State Parks, and the Friends of the Mark West Watershed invite you to join us for the annual Seasonal Celebration at Rancho Mark West! Relax with friends, new and old, and enjoy the forests and creeks of Rancho Mark West, just twenty minutes up the hill from Santa Rosa!
Sign Up HereVolunteer Forest Stewardship Day at Ocean Song/Myers Preserve
- Day: Thursday, December 14
- Time: 10am – 2pm
- Place: Ocean Song/Myers Preserve, Occidental
Come on out and tend the forest at Ocean Song/Myers Preserve. It’s the season for light forestry so we’ll be using hand tools to thin the forest which benefits biodiversity and reduces wildfire fuels.
Sign Up HereStewards on the Scene (SOS) Training at Bohemia Ecological Preserve
- Day: Saturday, December 16
- Time: 9am – 1pm
- Place: Bohemia Ecological Preserve, Occidental
Vamos Afuera: Búsqueda de Hongos
- Día: sábado, 16 de diciembre
- Hora: 9:15am – 2pm
- Lugar: Reserva Ecológica de Riddell, Healdsburg
¿Alguna vez te has preguntado cómo un hongo parece salir mágicamente del suelo? ¿O cuántos diferentes colores de hongos hay? ¿O por qué algunos hongos tienen una forma típica redonda, pero otros son extraños y viscosos? Si es así, esta aventura es para ti. Aprenderemos sobre el importante papel de los hongos en nuestro ecosistema mientras tratamos de encontrar hongos diferentes y extraños. Nos acompañará Naya Barreto, entusiasta de la micología, en una caminata relajada por la Reserva Ecológica de Riddell en Healdsburg. Favor de notar que estaremos caminando 3 millas o más en senderos inclinados y angostos. Las carriolas no son recomendadas para este evento.
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Stories from the Field


Reflections: Slow Restoration Community Forestry Project for Women and Nonbinary Participants
November 20, 2023
Tags: forestry, growing community with nature, riddell preserve, slow restoration, stewardship, wildfirefuelreduction
By Lara O’Herlihy, Stewardship Field Specialist This past October, fourteen strangers met for the first time at Riddell Preserve, LandPaths’ 400-acre protected open space preserve in the …


What’s It Like to Participate in a Prescribed Burn?
October 17, 2023
Tags: growing community with nature, stewardship
by Miles Sarvis-Wilburn, Stewardship Field Specialist at LandPaths I arrived at LandPaths’ Ocean Song/Myers Preserve at 7:30am, the sun rising over a thick ocean of fog, and …
What’s It Like to Participate in a Prescribed Burn? Read Article


Reflections on Interconnection in a California Coastal Prairie
August 7, 2023
Tags: growing community with nature, stewardship, Volunteer
by Miles Sarvis-Wilburn Stewardship Field Specialist The grasslands at Bohemia Ecological Preserve are California coastal prairie, a protected and unique habitat that contains an incredible amount of species …
Reflections on Interconnection in a California Coastal Prairie Read Article
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