The Strategy
The Ridge-to-River Wildlife Corridor is the strategic center of our conservation work: a chain of preserves running from Antler Gap Forest’s old-growth oak canopy on the high ridge down through Bramble Ridge Preserve, across the still-unprotected Granite Creek Meadows, and down to Two Forks Riparian Corridor at the valley floor. The goal is not four disconnected protected areas — it’s one continuous corridor a mountain lion, black bear, or migrating mule deer can move through without crossing a fenced pasture or a two-lane road.
We started this program in 2015 with the acquisition of Antler Gap Forest, protecting a keystone parcel that camera-trap data later confirmed was already functioning as a natural movement corridor. Bramble Ridge Preserve followed in 2019, extending the protected chain downhill. Two Forks Riparian Corridor, protected in 2022 alongside a fish-passage culvert replacement, secured the valley-floor end. Granite Creek Meadows — the 180-acre high meadow that would close the last gap between Bramble Ridge and Two Forks — is our current top acquisition priority, under a signed purchase option through 2027.
Once complete, this corridor will connect roughly 995 acres of continuously protected habitat spanning nearly 2,000 feet of elevation change, from ridge-top oak woodland to valley-floor riparian forest — the kind of elevational and habitat diversity that makes a corridor genuinely useful to wildlife rather than just contiguous on a map.
