Thursday February 12, 2026
Times Standard —
This week, the Northcoast Regional Land Trust announced that, in conjunction with a coalition of state and federal partners, it had finalized a conservation easement for Trinity County’s Travis Ranch. The easement protects 12,000 acres of land described as “a key landscape linking the Six Rivers National Forest’s Yolla Bolly–Middle Eel and North Fork wilderness areas with adjoining U.S. Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management lands.”
The easement will, according to NRLT, “permanently extinguish” the ability to subdivide and develop the property and will support continued timber and agricultural production alongside habitat restoration and wildfire risk reduction operations aimed at ensuring long-term stewardship of the land.