Preserving our landscape
and the stories it holds
Conserving Land
and Connecting Community
Our quality of life, health, and favorite places depend on land and water conservation. Protecting land keeps water and air clean, creates access to outdoor recreation and education, and provides habitat for wildlife. It also helps protect our community from floods. Solidago Conservancy works with local families and partners to conserve and connect greenways and natural areas in the Salt Valley watershed for all of us to enjoy and leave a legacy for future generations.
Where
We Work
Solidago Conservancy is working with local families and partners in Lincoln and Lancaster County to ensure that as the community grows it incorporates green spaces that are accessible by all people. Our focus is on protecting open space and three vital natural resources in priority landscapes within the Salt Valley watershed in Lincoln and Lancaster County: wetlands, tallgrass prairie, and stream corridors.
Little Salt Creek Corridor
Little Salt Creek is a priority corridor for protection of Nebraska’s Eastern Saline Wetlands. Significant wetland areas have been conserved by the Saline Wetlands Conservation Partnership, with sites available to the community for hiking, bird watching, hunting and fishing.
Prairie Corridor on Haines Branch
The Prairie Corridor on Haines Branch is a tallgrass prairie passageway that will connect Lincoln’s nationally recognized trail and greenway system and Pioneers Park Nature Center to Spring Creek Prairie Audubon Center.
Salt Creek South
The Salt Creek South greenway is an important stream corridor that includes the Jamaica North trail. Conservation in this corridor can help minimize flooding downstream in Lincoln and extend the greenway network south of Wilderness Park as the community grows.
Wetlands
Tallgrass Prairie
Stream Corridors
The land belongs to the future.
– Willa Cather
Stories of Impact
Inspiration.
Get inspired by the beauty of landscapes around us.
Connection.
Experience our connection with nature with Anna Wishart, Ann Ringlein, and Meghan Sittler.
Ecology.
Consider the complexity of the natural world with Sändra Washington, and envision conservation seven generations into the future.
Legacy.
Join Tim and Judy Stiefel as they talk about what the prairie means to them and why they donated their land to create a lasting legacy.
Who We Are
Solidago is the Latin name for the Nebraska state flower, the goldenrod; it also means “to complete or to make whole.”
Solidago Conservancy is a land trust working in Lincoln and Lancaster County, Nebraska. Solidago Conservancy allies with public and private partners to protect wild lands and open space in our identified priority areas. Land is conserved through conservation agreements and purchases from interested landowners.