Arroyos & Foothills Conservancy
We conserve and steward natural open space and provide free environmental education programs.
The San Gabriel Mountains are a vast natural landscape that is healthy and fully functioning. The San Rafael Hills, Verdugo Mountains and Griffith Park are islands of native habitat that need to be reconnected with the San Gabriels if they are to sustain healthy and diverse natural populations of wildlife and native plants. AFC is working to connect these islands with corridors that will invite wildlife to pass freely from one area to another and allow these special urban habitats to adapt to climate change. We are also preserving lands in our foothills with the highest intrinsic ecological value. These key habitat areas are being strategically protected through land acquisition, conservation easements, land use planning and implementation, and education.
Conservation
Conservation
Arroyos & Foothills Conservancy works with urgency to identify, preserve, and steward the most important natural lands and wildlife corridors in and around the San Gabriel and Crescenta Valleys for wildlife, birds and other native animals and plants.
Wildlife
Wildlife
AFC launched its remote wildlife camera program in 2014 to document wildlife on AFC properties, research potential passageways for wildlife and to engage folks who are unable to visit natural open space. These stunning images help convey our mission.
Education
Education
AFC feels a strong responsibility to nurture the next generation of land stewards in order to ensure the protection of natural open space in our communities in perpetuity. To do that we have established a strong Conservation through Education Program.
Land Acknowledgement
The Arroyos & Foothills Conservancy gratefully acknowledges the Indigenous Peoples who are the original stewards of the ancestral and unceded lands we work to conserve today. We commit to collaborate with and include Indigenous voices in our work so that we may all become better stewards and build meaningful connections to the land.