The easement completes the Siskiyou Land Trust's largest conservation project, permanently protecting 40,000 acres of working forest in Siskiyou County. Conservation easements allow organizations, such as the Siskiyou Land Trust, to protect large swaths of land without purchasing them outright. The protected land lies between the wilderness and the nearby towns of Fort Jones and Etna. With this acquisition, the land trust has scaled up its work. The land trust has now protected about 50,000 acres in Siskiyou County and aims to double that by 2030.