Sand to Snow National Monument

The Sand to Snow National Monument was inspired by The Wildlands Conservancy’s twenty-year-old Sand to Snow Wilderness Interface Project that included more than 60,000 acres of privately-funded land acquisition. This project entailed the acquisition of private properties threatened with development in order to safeguard wildlife corridors and landscape linkages between the San Gorgonio Wilderness, Joshua Tree National Park and Bighorn Mountain Wilderness. The project also laid ground for additional linkages between the San Bernardino and San Jacinto Mountains through additional acquisitions. The Sand to Snow National Monument brings a higher level of protection to these non-wilderness wildlife corridors.