Our Mission and Vision:

Land Stewardship

Our vision is that Hallomas become a haven for native vegetation and fauna, a model of combined land conservation and human use. In that future vision, Hallomas will continue to be owned and managed by women and remain an active participant in the Navarro River Watershed communities.

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When we purchased the land, it had been subject to decades of logging and grazing that resulted in overcrowded forested areas and the proliferation of non-native—and in some cases invasive—species in both forests and grassland ecosystems. Today we are implementing stewardship activities rooted in the best available science and welcoming of indigenous knowledge and practices for the long-term health of these lands. Our goal, collectively agreed on, is to cultivate a healthy, diverse, mixed stage forest and grassland that is fire resilient and supports a diversity of plant and animal communities.

Committed to ongoing learning and partnerships across the Navarro River Watershed, this work is an expression of our understanding that our well-being is inextricably tied to our care and respect for the land and our more-than-human neighbors.

We have an approved Forest Management Plan designed to help us achieve a healthy, fire resilient property.  This includes thinning the forested areas to achieve age and size distribution of trees and shrubs suitable for the available soil types, eliminating introduced grasses in the meadows and reseeding them with natives, and controlling invasive plants.  Implementing the plan will take years (and significant expense), but once we have treated all the areas identified in the plan, managing the restored land will continue to demand attention but at a lower degree of intensity.