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

Rooting Youth in Nature

LandPaths significantly reduces the barriers and expands opportunities to get outside so that youth can experience wonder, joy, awe, belonging, and a sense of stewardship in nature.

Branching Out Conservation for Everyone

We expand the percentage of people in Sonoma County who benefit from healthy land, understand the value of nature, and cultivate a sense of reciprocity with the environment.

Community Care

Growing Community with Nature

Challenges like catastrophic wildfires have dramatically increased with climate change. In the face of this reality, LandPaths cultivates a connection between people and the land as one of the solutions to the problem. From wildfire fuel reduction volunteer days to conservation workforce training, we offer a range of equitable, creative, impactful land stewardship opportunities to get you in nature for care and community.

Featured Outings

Help Tend Trails at Rancho Mark West

  • Day: Saturday, June 3
  • Time: 9am to 1pm
  • Place: Rancho Mark West, Santa Rosa

Trails are crucial to safe access to nature, for both land and people. They also help reduce erosion and overuse of sensitive ecosystems. At LandPaths, our trails are people-powered, and you can come on out and help us maintain them on these monthly stewardship days, while enjoying a morning out at one of the most beautiful open spaces in Sonoma County!

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Early Summer Hike at Lafferty Ranch

  • Day: Saturday, June 24
  • Time: 10am to 1pm
  • Place: Lafferty Ranch, Petaluma
  • Free!

Join LandPaths’ docent Larry Modell and the City of Petaluma for an early Summer adventure on Sonoma Mountain! We’ll explore the change of seasons following the Summer solstice at Lafferty Ranch Open Space, the only publicly owned property on the Petaluma side of Sonoma Mountain. This 270 acre property overlooks the Petaluma Valley and features views of Mt. Tamalpais, Mt. Diablo, San Francisco, and the Pacific Ocean. The hiking terrain ranges from broad, gentle meadows to steep challenging hillsides.  You’ll enjoy panoramic vistas, groves of venerable oak and bay trees, and a babbling, perennial stream.

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Camp Trillium: LGBTQIA+ & Allies Nature Day Camp

  • Days: July 3 – 7, 2023
  • Time: 9am to 3pm
  • Place: LandPaths’ preserve in West Sonoma County
  • Ages: 9 to 14 (youth grouped by age)
  • In partnership with Positive Images

At the heart of all LandPaths’ Camps are joyful experiences in nature! This week we will be enjoying all the things that make LandPaths’ camps unique, hiking through fields and forests, canoeing on the pond, bonding as a group while playing nature themed games and learning all about the plants and animals that call this nature preserve in west Sonoma County home.

In addition to all the wonderful time spent in nature, this week will center LGBTQIA+ youth in recognition that through meaningful relationships with one another and the outdoors, we can build community and experience brave spaces and joy together!

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Help tend trails/ cuidar los senderos - Grove of Old Trees

  • Day: Thursday, June 15
  • Time: 9am to 1pm
  • Place: Grove of Old Trees, Occidental

Trails are crucial to safe access to nature, for both land and people. They also help reduce erosion and overuse of sensitive ecosystems. At LandPaths, our trails are people-powered, and we need your help maintaining them on these occasional stewardship days at this small and beloved redwood sanctuary in West Sonoma County.

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Stories + News

Stories from the Field

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Fostering a Love of the Land as a LandPaths’ Intern: An Interview with Andrew Magdaleno

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An internship is an excellent way to gain experience in the field of community conservation in Sonoma County. In the second installment of a new interview series …

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Fostering a Love of the Land as a LandPaths’ Intern – An Interview with Calvin Howell

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Photo by Emmaline Jones – Willowflower Photography An internship is an excellent way to get involved with LandPaths in diverse ways. In this first installation of a …

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A Classroom Takes to the Land: A Day of Environmental Philosophy & Stewardship with Santa Rosa Junior College students

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by Miles Sarvis-Wilburn, Stewardship Field Specialist I met Professor Alexa Forrester for the first time at a LandPaths’ volunteer stewardship day. A professor of Philosophy at Santa …

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