Join us for the
Diablo Trust Annual Meeting
Collaborative Land Stewardship Efforts in the West
The 2025 Annual Meeting will feature guest speakers Lesli Allison, CEO of Western Landowners Alliance and Sarah King, Executive Director of Altar Valley Conservation Alliance.
Join us for engaging presentations, discussion, and networking. Learn about the ways ranchers and land managers are working together to achieve beneficial outcomes for ranching, conservation, and stewardship at the landscape level.
We will also hear updates from the Diablo Trust ranches and partners in the field.
No registration is required, but we would love to know if you’re coming!
Meet Our Guest Speakers:
Lesli Allison
CEO, Western Landowners Alliance
Lesli is a founding member and chief executive of the Western Landowners Alliance. She was also a founding member of the Chama Peak Land Alliance. For the past three decades, Lesli has worked extensively with private landowners and multiple stakeholders to advance conservation, sustain working lands and support rural communities.
Prior to Western Landowners Alliance, Lesli managed a large ranch in the southern San Juan Mountains of Colorado. During her 16-year tenure, she implemented progressive conservation management through award-winning programs in restoration forestry, prescribed fire, grazing, stream restoration, hunting and wildlife management, and scientific research and monitoring. Lesli holds a B.A. from Columbia University and an M.A. from St. John’s College, Santa Fe.
Sarah King
Executive Director, Altar Valley Conservation Alliance
Sarah became the Alliance’s Executive Director in 2020. She joined the Altar Valley Conservation Alliance staff team in 2011 as the Community Outreach and Education Coordinator, and also served as the Alliance’s Program Director for several years. Sarah lives in the Altar Valley, where she lives and works on the King’s Anvil Ranch, with her husband, Joe. They have two kids, who are the 5th generation to live on the Anvil Ranch, which was founded in 1895.
Sarah received her degree in history from Davidson College in 2008. Prior to working with the Alliance, she was a backcountry horseback guide on guest ranches in Montana and Arizona. Sarah cares deeply about collaborative conservation in the Altar Valley, and the future of the valley as an open, working landscape.
