Before the Year Turns: A Lasting Choice for the Land You Love

The holidays are coming to a close. The lights and trees will soon come down, and the pace of life is slowing down, even if just a little.

Outside, winter has been slow to take hold, yet the trails are quiet. The sun hangs lower in the sky, casting long shadows across open fields and frozen creeks. If you step outside, it’s refreshing to see the landscape dormant and resting. 

This pause, between Christmas and the New Year, invites reflection. It asks us to consider what truly lasts.

At Palmer Land Conservancy, this is the season when forever feels especially tangible.

What Endured This Year

Because of community support, land and water across Colorado are protected today, and will remain long after this year fades into memory.

Working farmland continues to sustain us. Open spaces remain places of movement, solitude, and wonder. Wildlife corridors stay connected. Views remain undisturbed.

None of this happened by accident.

It happened because people like you chose permanence over convenience. Stewardship over short-term gain. You committed to a future that stretches far beyond a single year.

Why Year-End Still Matters

Conservation doesn’t pause for the holidays. Opportunities to protect land and water arrive when they arrive, and acting on them requires readiness.

Year-end giving helps ensure Palmer Land Conservancy can move quickly when a property, a water project, or a partnership opportunity emerges. It fuels the legal work, the monitoring, and the long-term stewardship that turns good intentions into permanent protection.

A gift made now becomes part of that foundation. It strengthens our ability to step into the new year prepared to protect more places that matter.

A Choice That Carries Forward

When you give to Palmer Land Conservancy, you’re ensuring the Colorado you love today remains for many generations to come.

You’re helping ensure that these beautiful landscapes remain unchanged next winter, and the one after that, and for hundreds in the future. You’re ensuring that future generations can enjoy these same trails, work the same soil, and rely on the same watersheds. You're protecting the moments we cherish today so they don’t quietly disappear tomorrow.

This is what it means to protect land and water forever.

One Last Chance to Give Before the Year Ends

If Palmer’s work has mattered to you this year, if you’ve found peace, nourishment, or belonging in the lands we help protect, there is still time to act.

A year-end gift is a powerful way to turn reflection into impact. Donate before December 31, and Purple Mountain Group at Morgan Stanley will match it.

Together, we can enter the new year knowing we chose what lasts.