About LandPaths
LandPaths is an environmental education and conservation leader with the mission to foster a love of the land in Sonoma County. We believe everyone should have access to the awe and inspiration of nature.
Annually, we engage thousands of participants like you in joyful, caring, and transformative relationship with the land. We do this mainly through creative outings led in both English and Spanish, environmental education, nature camps, and people-powered land stewardship of local open spaces.
Land Acknowledgement
Our community gardens, office, and preserves throughout Sonoma County are located on the ancestral homelands of the Pomo, Coast Miwok, Kashia Band of Pomo Indians, Dry Creek Rancheria Band of Pomo Indians, and the Wappo people, past, present, and future. We recognize them as the First Peoples and the First Stewards of this land.

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Community Care
Growing Community with Nature
Wildfires, flooding, and other challenges have dramatically increased globally and locally because of human-caused climate change. Reciprocal and joyful relationships between people and the land is a solution to climate disruption. From volunteer land stewardship days to community gatherings in local open spaces, you’ll find a range of creative, impactful opportunities to participate with LandPaths and make a difference.

Featured Outings
Mosses and More: Immerse in the Trees, Ferns, and Mosses of Bohemia Ecological Preserve
- Day: Sunday, October 19
- Time:10am – 12pm
- Place: Bohemia Ecological Preserve, Occidental
Garden Day at Ocean Song Preserve
- Day: Sunday, October 19
- Time: 10:30am – 3pm
- Place: Ocean Song Preserve, Occidental
Volunteer Stewardship Day at Riddell Preserve
- Day: Thursday, October 23
- Time: 9am – 2pm
- Place: Riddell Preserve, Healdsburg
Please join LandPaths and Healdsburg Rotary Club for light forestry, removal of “plants out of place,” and burn unit prep at Riddell Preserve! This 400-acre preserve above Dry Creek Valley teems with madrones, redwoods, bays, native wildflowers and other plants, birds, and so much more! Together, we can steward the land to help it be resilient in the face of the impacts of climate change, especially wildfire. Plus, it’s fun to get outside with like-minded people, giving back to the land that gives so much to us.
Sign UpVolunteer Stewardship Day at the Grove of Old Trees
- Day: Saturday, October 25
- Time: 10am – 2pm
- Place: Grove of Old Trees, Occidental
You’re warmly invited to lend a hand at the Grove of Old Trees! This 48-acre redwood grove in west Sonoma County is protected forever. A flourishing habitat that’s beneficial for plant, animal, and human communities, your stewardship action is crucial to tending the land for a healthy, thriving Grove. It’s wildfire fuels reduction time on the preserve! You will help keep our forests healthy and resilient in the chance that a wildfire comes through our preserve.
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Stories of Impact

A Heartwarming and Powerful Safe Space in Nature for LGBTQ+ Youth and Allies
July 24, 2025
Tags: Rooting Youth in Nature
It’s the fourth day of Camp Trillium at LandPaths’ Bohemia Ecological Preserve in Sonoma County, California and the sun is shining in a clear, blue sky. Camp Trillium was […]

Why Do We Conduct Prescribed Burns at our Sonoma County Preserves?
May 29, 2025
Tags: good fire, stewardship

Reflections from Jim & Betty Doerksen, Land Partners at Rancho Mark West
February 14, 2025
Tags: Doerksen, Fire Recovery, Glass Fire, Land Partner, rancho mark west
Jim and Betty Doerksen purchased Rancho Mark West in 1967. The Doerksens have worked tirelessly, planting upwards of “one million trees,” according to Jim. They also started […]
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