The Mendocino Tahoe Conservancy (MTC) and its educational arm Yuba Pacific Institute (YPI) are designed to coordinate open space data and encourage in-filling for California portions of a Coast to Coast Nationwide Heritage Corridor along the 39th parallel.

The Practical Activities within California are:

1. Survey and identify strategically important missing-link landscapes between Mendocino and Tahoe desirable for a 'Sacramento River' cross-section of California Ecology including a Northern John Muir California Landscapes Trail.

2. Own and/or encourage the ownership and/or conservation easements to said lands through providing local memberships and an umbrella for Land Trusts and Restoration Groups connecting the Tahoe Counties and Mendocino County.

3. Illustrate and publicize many different models of ways to create a pilot multi-use lands and rivers heritage corridor across North America not yet proposed elsewhere.
a. Restoration Models on the Yuba and Bear Rivers as well as ecological staircases at Mendocino and Cache Creek headwaters.

1. Independence Trail

2. Cache Creek Headwaters

3. Jughandle Ecological Staircase

b. Ownership Models including ecological co-housing, residential land stewardships, and many others.

1. Powerhouse and Sierra Foothills Landscape

4. To educate about said lands and their restoration along with those already owned by other government and non-profit entities regarding the unique geological, biological, anthropological, historical and modern non-urban land uses and east-west landscape corridors of California and especially a Pilot Mendocino Tahoe Land Heritage Corridor.