The Nature Conservancy in Idaho - A Moment for Silver Creek

We Need Your Help!

Do you want to protect this important property at Silver Creek? Please donate today.
Every donation counts. With your support, we can continue our tremendous conservation legacy at Silver Creek.

Seize the moment for this special place!

Silver Creek Preserve is located near Picabo, Idaho and is world famous for its trout population, abundant wildlife and beautiful scenery. It is open to the public year round. We hope to see you there!

Did You Know?

Silver Creek was a favorite fishing and hunting spot of Ernest Hemingway.

22 properties have been protected along the creek through conservation easements. (We need your help for one more!)

Last year, Silver Creek welcomed visitors from all 50 states and 15 countries.

Silver Creek to be covered in houses! Is that a headline you’d like to read in the paper? Is this what you want to see on a future trip to Silver Creek.

Impossible? No, unfortunately, it’s not.

It doesn’t have to be this way. This is an important moment for Silver Creek Preserve. You can ensure that such a headline never appears.

The view across the road from Silver Creek—the farm fields and sagebrush hills, the deer heading down from the Picabo Hills—is not protected by conservation easement. That land could some day be covered in houses.

While much of the Silver Creek Valley is protected by conservation easements, the important property directly south of the preserve remains unprotected. The open space, the wildlife habitat and the scenery could be gone.

You have the opportunity--today--to ensure that doesn't happen.

An Important Conservation Legacy

You have the chance to make sure the wildlife, working farms and ranches and clean water of Silver Creek stay that way.

The Nature Conservancy is in the process of purchasing a conservation easement on the property directly across from Silver Creek Preserve. It would protect 320 acres from development, now and for future generations. But we need your help.

Thirty five years ago, the land that is now Silver Creek Preserve came up for sale. Concerned citizens feared for its future. They didn’t despair. They recognized the moment, and they seized it. That started a conservation tradition that has resulted in 10,000 acres of conservation along the creek.

Seize the Moment

Today is another moment for Silver Creek. And you can help shape the future.

Some day, when you bring your grandchildren to the preserve, you could point across to that glorious open space with its deer and elk and sagebrush, and say: “I helped make that possible. I protected that land.”

We invite you to play a role in Silver Creek’s conservation heritage. Every donation helps.

Seize the moment. Protect Silver Creek now and for the future.