Photo: Matthew Archer

Real change happens because of people like you. People who show up for nature again and again.

Across forests, foothills, wetlands, and shorelines, the signs are there. Birds returning and filling the air with their busy, busy song. The buds that are just starting to appear, ready to burst into full leaves, decorating all of the previously barren trees. Ice melting, glittering in the warmth when the sun hits it just-so, and revealing the soft earth beneath. Mud under foot, just waiting to be trudged through on a back country hike.

Photo: Edward Busby

While the world is starting to teem with life, we are reminded of the incredible gratitude we have for our supporters. What comes with the spring is optimism for better days ahead. We get to have a tangible experience of how much we need the vitality of nature; we can feel how it nourishes us.

Your generosity does more than protect nature. It protects possibility. It helps ensure that these moments continue, season after season.

Photo: Terri Vidricaire

At this time of year, we want to pause and thank you. For your compassion. For your trust. For your belief in this work. For being a part of a community that shows up, again and again, day after day, for nature, when it matters more than ever.

As the magnolias begin their spectacular show and captivate us with their intense beauty, as the ducklings start to hatch and begin to trail along behind their mothers, as the grass starts to reveal itself and refreshes the landscape in a blanket of lush green once again, we hope that you feel a sense of connection to all of the renewal that is happening all around us.

And that we thank YOU for being there for us, and for nature.

Photo: Lori Richards