Help us meet our 2017 DLC Board and Staff Challenge on Colorado Gives Day! We’re committed to matching up to $22,500 in donations (1 dollar for every acre that DLC has protected) made to DLC during Colorado Gives Day this year! Your support helps us with our continued efforts to conserve the places that we have all come to …

Stakeholder Notification/Public Notice The land trust accreditation program recognizes land conservation organizations that meet national quality standards for protecting important natural places and working lands forever. Douglas Land Conservancy is pleased to announce it is applying for renewal of accreditation. A public comment period is now open. The Land Trust Accreditation Commission, an independent program of the Land Trust Alliance, …

Are you planning to do some flower shopping in the coming weeks? Help Douglas Land Conservancy this spring by shopping at  for your flowers and summer gardening supplies! Just mention Douglas Land Conservancy or present the attached card when checking out at Tagawa Gardens, and DLC could receive up to 20% of the money spent. Share this post with your friends …

Silent swooping up and down. An owl flies fast, but silently. How? Slow, but silent too. Its soft, silent feathers flapping in the midnight. The owl comes down to catch a mouse. Snatch. The mouse is breakfast. Back to the nest goes the owl. Uno, dos, tres. Three little chicks. Peep, peep, peep. Mother owl pops a piece of food …

It is up to Us! by Alan Clarke………….. Forty years in the city. That is a long time. Long enough to forget about the sound of wind blowing through the forest…to forget what a fox looks like…to forget the glory of a sunrise…to forget the sweet, heavy scent of pine trees in the hot sun. My mother-in-law has come from the …

Please Join Douglas Land Conservancy for the Third Presentation in our 2016 Speaker Series ______________________ Rocky Mountain National Park:  The First 100 Years    Presented by the Author  and Former DLC Board Member,  Mary Taylor Young.  Wednesday, October 19, 2016 6 – 8 pm @ CALF’s Lowell Ranch 2330 South I-25 on East Frontage Road, South of Castle Rock ____________________________________ …

2016 Olympic Games and Land Conservation……What do they have in common?? by David King ……….. Every four years, the world comes together in an event unlike any other.  Athletes from around the world unite to demonstrate the ideals in competition, sportsmanship, and entertainment. In addition to the good tidings that are created between nations and peoples, there as a uniting …

Join us at the Amphitheater at Philip S. Miller Park for an exciting presentation featuring the birds that share our home. Afterwards, plan on attending the meet and greet and get a chance to see some of our local raptors up close and personal. This is a free event for the entire family made possible by the Douglas Land Conservancy …

Douglas County Open Space and Douglas Land Conservancy, will be hosting the annual Open Space Day at the Prairie Canyon Ranch on Saturday, August 20, 2016. Activities will include a guided horseback ride for guests with horses, a guided hike, ranch tours, hayrides, blacksmith demonstrations, archery, games, blue grass music, and more. Prairie Canyon Ranch This 978-acre ranch is open …

Capturing the Beauty of Open Lands………… During the week of June 20th, a group of 25 nationally recognized Plein Air Painters (those who paint outside) descended on Castle Rock for Douglas Land Conservancy’s Plein Air Invitational.  I was fortunate to have been one of them.  We painted all week and on Friday, we submitted our “keepers” to be sold during …