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In response to major habitat loss and fragmentation in the West San Gabriel Valley, Trust to Connect considers how to protect wildlife and the land itself from the rapid and dynamic effects of anthropogenic land conversion and climate change. Following an investigation of contemporary and foundational conservation methods, this project proposes a comprehensive strategy for land acquisition, management, and connectivity through three multiscalar frameworks. Additionally, Trust to Connect recommends an approach utilizing urban infrastructure typologies, which were identified through site analysis and chosen for their capacity to produce high-impact, buildable landscape transformations. Through a series of design interventions, the Wildlife Team generates a way to holistically apply the three framework strategies within the urban context, where land is frequently out of reach to conservation entities due to funding, development, and other barriers. Touching on environmental and geological sciences, Trust to Connect endeavors to promote biodiversity and reestablish wildlife connectivity within the built environment by applying these frameworks and urban infrastructure design interventions to a permeable, residential landscape within the California Floristic Province, a biodiversity hotspot.