The Nisqually Land Trust, formerly the Nisqually River Basin Land Trust, is an independent, private, nongovernmental organization incorporated in 1989 and federally recognized as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit corporation in 1990. The mission of the Nisqually Land Trust is to acquire and manage critical lands to permanently benefit the water, wildlife, and people of the Nisqually River Watershed. Today, the Land Trust owns, protects, and stewards more than 4,600 acres in the watershed and has planted over 180,000 native trees and shrubs on Land Trust property.

Conservation of the watershed is guided by a comprehensive stewardship plan, developed in response to a 1985 legislative directive and managed by the Nisqually River Council, and by the Nisqually Chinook Salmon Recovery Plan, which is coordinated by the Nisqually Indian Tribe and is widely considered the premier salmon-recovery plan in Washington State. Both plans rate protection of wildlife habitat a highest priority. The Nisqually Land Trust was formed with the recognition that a conservancy organization was needed to accomplish plan goals, and we now play a lead role in executing both plans.

We are the lead nongovernmental conservation organization in the watershed, and we have built a reputation for working collaboratively with partners throughout the watershed and the Puget Sound region to protect land and water for the benefit of wildlife and our local communities in Pierce, Thurston, and Lewis counties.