Landowners can permanently protect the conservation value of their land in several ways.
They can donate outright or bequeath land to a land trust. Among other means of protecting land, landowners can sell open space land to land trusts in a bargain sale, below market value. Across the country, land trusts are succeeding in saving the vistas, great and small, that make communities unique. When author and conservationist Sigurd Olson needed a break from the demands of his roles as president of The Wilderness Society and National Parks Association and his work establishing the federally-protected Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness, he retreated to Listening Point. Ojai Valley has always prided itself on its beautiful downtown area surrounded by the soaring mountains of Los Padres National Forest.