Riverside Land Conservancy
Gail Egenes, Executive Director of the Riverside Land Conservancy, will speak at the September 3rd chapter meeting.
Ms. Egenes is a member of the California Council of Land Trusts Board of Directors, Southern California Open Space Council Steering Committee and the Western Riverside County-Regional Conservation Authority Stakeholder Committee. She holds a B.A. in German, English and International Business and has been involved in nonprofit management for 30 years.
In 2004 Ms. Egenes was responsible for the development of the Conservancy’s Mitigation Program and was instrumental in Riverside Land Conservancy receiving the 2006 Governor’s Environmental and Economic Leadership Award for Partnerships for RLC’s involvement in the Colton Dunes Conservation Bank.
Southern California is home to rich and diverse habitats, and areas of spectacular scenic beauty. Riverside Land Conservancy is a nonprofit land trust that works to protect land and habitat for future generations. In preserving our natural resources, it seeks to build community, preserve beauty and instill hope. Founded in 1988 to create a local organization dedicated to protecting our open space and natural areas, Riverside Land Conservancy has become involved in conservation throughout inland Southern California. As population continues to increase locally and globally, places of protected natural lands that allow people to engage with the environment are critical for understanding and appreciating our influence on the environment. Simply put, we don’t know everything worth knowing about the world in which we live. A society with an environmentally aware and engaged population is better off because they have knowledge of complex systems, preserved history for social context, working examples of nonwasting resource cycles, and laboratories for future discovery.
RLC accomplishes its work by developing partnerships and striking a balance between economic development and the protection of valuable ecological and cultural resources. RLC partners include willing landowners, real estate developers, natural resources businesses, governmental resource agencies and the community at large.
Since 1988 RLC has conserved over 12,000 acres through land purchases, donations and land use restrictions on fragile natural landscapes.
