Caring for Land, Place, and Future Generations
Advancing native biodiversity, watershed restoration, wildfire resilience, and regenerative agriculture through place‑based stewardship.
Our mission is to catalyze restorative change to ecosystems and communities in California through youth and adult educational programs.
Encino Conservancy is a nonprofit dedicated to stewarding land in ways that strengthen native biodiversity, wildfire resilience, and watershed health, while supporting community learning and vocational and youth education.
Our work takes place at the Encino Conservancy Ranch, a 120‑acre working landscape located on the ancestral lands of the Iipai / Northern Kumeyaay People. We approach this place with respect for its long history of stewardship and an understanding that land care is an ongoing responsibility shaped by time, place, and relationship.
Our Work Is Guided by Place
Long before modern conservation frameworks, this landscape was actively cared for through close observation, seasonal awareness, and restraint—practices that continue to inform responsible land stewardship today.
While Encino Conservancy is not an Indigenous‑led organization, we hold space for Indigenous stewardship by acknowledging place, elevating long‑term ways of knowing, and caring for the land with humility. We recognize that acknowledgment alone is insufficient, and we continue to learn how stewardship today can be more responsible, informed, and accountable to place.
Ready to take the next step?
Caring for land is an ongoing responsibility. Your support helps steward a place with a long history of human care, enabling thoughtful land management, education, and restoration at the Encino Conservancy Ranch.
Donations support practical stewardship—protecting sensitive areas, improving access and infrastructure, restoring a historic olive grove, and building the capacity needed to care for this landscape well into the future.
Thank you for sharing our hope that we can protect our natural world.
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