Results are in from our first season of work as "Watershed Stewards" in the Alpine / El Capitan catchment area of the San Diego River Watershed, removing highly-flammable Arundo donax and cleaning trash and debris from our streambeds....

San Diego Earth Fair in Balboa Park 

Every year in April, 75,000 people descend on Balboa Park for San Diego's Earth Fair event. BCLT was there again this         year with our booth displaying our amazing Back Country conservation lands, from Alpine to Potrero.


This year, one of our local businesses and partners, Alpine Beer Company, generously donated a $25 gift card and t-shirt for a fun raffle drawing at our EarthFair booth!  Thank you so much to everyone at Alpine Beer Co. for helping out, and for making such delicious food & beverages! 


Congratulations to Tom & Mara, our Earth Day raffle prize winners!  We hope you'll enjoy the great outdoors along with your gifts from Alpine Beer Company...

BCLT continues it's work to survey and eradicate this highly invasive and flammable plant from the Alpine / El Capitan Watershed catchment in 2013...

We are looking for private land-owners in Alpine, Harbison Canyon, and Peutz Valley interested in working with us to remove this hazardous plant from their properties!  Please contact us for more information regarding this FREE fire-abatement program.

See: http://bclt.org/index.php/bclt-projects/2-general/8-arundo-removal-project - for more information on this project, and photos of our progress removing Arundo from Alpine's creeks and streams.

Back Country Land Trust was honored by the Alpine/Mountain Empire Chamber of Commerce at the annual Alpine Leadership and Public Service Awards (ALPS) with a nomination for "Alpine Organization of the Year" for 2012, and a "Special Recognition Award" from our partners at the Alpine Education Foundation (AEF), for "early and constant support" of AEF's mission and programs.

Thank you to all of our Board Members, partners, volunteers and supporters, and especially to the Alpine/Mountain Empire Chamber of Commerce & Alpine Education Foundation, for the recognition of our work to protect open-space and support environmental education in Alpine & the Back Country!

To learn more about BCLT properties and programs, visit our Facebook page:
www.facebook.com/BackCountryLandTrust
or 
visit our partners' websites 
Alpine Education Foundation: http://www.aef4kids.org
Alpine / Mountain Empire Chamber of Commerce: http://www.alpinechamber.com