Kawartha Land Trust protects 44 properties comprising more than 8,100 acres of important, diverse types of land, and assists in the management of one additional property.
There are many options for landowners who would like to protect their land. Explore KLT’s land protection options.
Your gift will protect more natural spaces in the Kawarthas. Thank you for making a donation to protect the land you love today.
At Kawartha Land Trust, our volunteers are the heart and soul of what we do. You can make a real difference!
It’s only through the support of our donors and volunteers that we’ve been able to accomplish so much, but there is still more work to be done.
Your donations further KLT’s impact upon our shared landscape:
195 acres of Douro farmland, forest, wetland, and meadows protected through a Conservation Easement Agreement between Bruce Kidd & Family and Kawartha Land Trust.
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In 2021, Ralph McKim and Jean Garsonnin generously donated 150 acres of this Kawartha Lakes property to Kawartha Land Trust to protect forever. The property includes one of the rarest ecosystems in North America — the tallgrass prairie.
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"Sometimes putting off until tomorrow allows something important never to happen…Once you know about KLT and have the ability to give, you should pursue this worthy organization. Putting off until tomorrow may deprive you of donating to protect your precious land from development, financial advantages, and just the sheer joy of giving."
Land Donor
"In 2011, when we put a Conservation Easement on the property with Kawartha Land Trust, our purpose was to ensure the landscape we were restoring would be protected in perpetuity. In 2023, as we complete the transfer of most of our property to KLT ownership our purpose has been enlarged — to ensure that young and old may continue to engage with Nature on this protected landscape for years to come drawing on her gifts and sharing in her healing."
Ralph McKim
“We didn’t know how well we were doing with our ecology efforts until Kawartha Land Trust did a physical assessment of our farm. It opened our eyes to a fuller picture of our farm ecosystem...When you invite somebody onto your land to do an assessment there is a worry they will just point out all the flaws. KLT instead brought us reassurance that we are doing well and with very meaningful pointers to help manage the future of our farm.”
Partner in Conservation
"We’ve known of Kawartha Land Trust and have long appreciated its work in other areas of the Kawarthas. We have thus seen the trust that other large landholders place in it. We have also seen the planning and careful and caring protection it provides to the lands donated to it...We thus feel entirely able and very happy to entrust our beloved land to the protection of KLT."
Dr. Patricia Morton
"I was on Ballyduff Trails over the weekend. I just wanted to reach out to you and tell you that I really enjoyed this trail and it is a beautiful property with rich and diverse ecosystem."
Trail Visitor
"Volunteering with KLT helps me get out and experience 'wild' Ontario in a way I’d struggle to otherwise. There are so many interesting and unique places that the KLT enables me to access, and the fact that I get to go visit them AND make a positive impact is pretty cool."
Ben StarkWe’re grateful to the Kawartha Land Trust community for their enthusiasm and support for conserving land in the Kawarthas for current and future generations.
Fungi are everywhere – according to Kew Gardens State of the Worlds Plant and Fungi 2023, there are estimated to be 2.5 million species of fungi worldwide, of which only 155,000 species have been formally named. They can be found in nearly all environments – from soil and air to water and even within other organisms. Learn more in this article by volunteer Susan Scott.
After a months-long campaign, Kawartha Land Trust has reached its community fundraising goal and is moving forward to purchase this ecologically significant property.
“Legacy giving is the best way of knowing that what we have spent a lifetime of working for will actually make all of our efforts mean something in the end.” – Cedar Stand Society Members Robert Ertel and Ron Awde.
"Given the many challenges we now face in responding to climate change, loss of species diversity, and the ever-decreasing number of areas that are left for people to explore the natural world, Kawartha Land Trust serves as a local champion in protecting and conserving natural lands in the Kawarthas for the overall benefit of the community."
Evan Thomas KLT Trustee & Longtime Volunteer