Organizations Filed Purposes:
The Wildlands Conservancy's dual mission is to preserve the beauty and biodiversity of the earth and to fund programs so that children may know the wonder and joy of nature.
Stewarding of parkland and wilderness preserves that are open to over 1,200,000 visitors per year for free. In working to achieve this mission, the Conservancy has established the largest nonprofit nature preserve system in California, comprised of 21 preserves encompassing 162,000 acres of diverse mountain, valley, desert, river, and oceanfront landscapes. Since the Conservancy believes that public access is a pillar of preserving nature, these preserves are open to the public free of charge for passive recreation, including camping, hiking, picnicking, birding, and more. For each of its preserves, the Conservancy employs a full-time staff of rangers, most with college degrees in biology, ecology, and related environmental studies. Each year these rangers work side-by-side with hundreds of volunteers, logging thousands of hours, restoring and maintaining these unique and important properties.
Supported outdoor, environmental education: For nearly two decades, the Conservancy has been Southern California's leader in providing free outdoor education programs to urban youth. Each year more than 20,000 underserved students participate in a Wildlands, naturalist-led curriculum-based program at a Wildlands preserve. An additional 37,000 children engage in a self-guided outdoor education experience at Wildlands' Southern California Montane Botanic Garden and Children's Outdoor Discovery Center annually. Nearly one million children have benefited from Conservancy-funded outdoor science program, or week-long science school.
Land Conservation: Expenses incurred in land acquistion projects. TWC owns more than 162,000 acres of land as preserves, and in aggregate has funded acquistions of over 750,000 acres statewide. Many statewide and nationally significant conservation projects were given birth from the Conservancy's preserves, which serve as outposts for strategic land-based conservation and stewardship. These include the 150,000 acre Sand to Snow National Monument, named after Wildlands Sand to Snow Wilderness Interface Project, and the 1.6 million acre Mojave Trails National Monument, the largest in America, for which the more than 560,000 acres acquired by the Conservancy with private funding and donated to the American people for conservation in perpetuity became the pillar in its establishment.
Executives Listed on Filing
Total Salary includes financial earnings, benefits, and all related organization earnings listed on tax filing
| Name | Title | Hours Per Week | Total Salary |
|---|
| David Myers | Executive Dir. | 60 | $136,822 |
| Christina Sanchez | CFO | 50 | $76,604 |
| Jennifer Malone | Secretary | 50 | $75,430 |
| Frazier Haney | Deputy Director | 65 | $51,125 |
| Daniel Gelbaum | President | 5 | $0 |
| Chris Carrillo | Director | 5 | $0 |
| Charles Thomas | Director | 5 | $0 |
| Joan Taylor | Director | 5 | $0 |
| April Sall | Director | 5 | $0 |
| Carl Pope | Director | 5 | $0 |
| Emily Gelbaum | Director | 5 | $0 |
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