Audio segments from Trees Radio Hour! Lesley Adams Outreach Coordinator, and Joseph Viale Campaign Coordinator and Interim Executive Director March, 2005

AFI facilitates landscape-level forest conservation projects in northern California and internationally. In Chile, AFI has been working to create Sendero Chile, a network of bi-national parks between Argentina and Chile linked by the equivalent to the Pacific Crest Trail. The Andean Crest Trail now has an eco-tourist Mountain Lodge at the Ca?i, the site of the first reserve established by AFI in 1992. In northern California, AFI works with citizens, elected officials, agency staff, and conservation groups to advocate for the permanent protection of hundreds of thousands of acres of core road-less habitat on national public lands through designation as federal wilderness, and continues to work on their landmark Redwoods-to-the-Sea corridor project linking ancient redwood reserves to the Lost Coast wilderness.

AFI and a coalition of international rainforest protection groups and indigenous communities in Ecuador have launched the Amazonian Tropical Wilderness Area project. The proposed conservation corridor will expand and integrate existing reserves to create a 5-million hectare (12.5-million acre), management unit in the extremely threatened Amazonian lowland tropical forest. The area is home to over 500 bird species, nine species of primates, and both pink and gray freshwater dolphins.


November, 2002 Update
AFI?s small, dedicated staff continues in its tireless efforts to protect Ancient Forests. As the primary partner in the successful Gilham Butte acquisition effort, AFI continues its involvement as a ?Cooperative Management Plan? between local groups and the Bureau of Land Management is developed. The 5,000 acres of acquisitions and these subsequent efforts have been carried out to create a wildlife corridor linking Humboldt Redwoods State Park and the Sinkyone Wilderness. With AFI?s assistance, the ?Redwoods-to-Sea? draft Recreation Plan is now complete and in circulation. This preliminary plan is a cornerstone of the overall Management Plan and is important to show the agencies and the community that the plan is moving forward. The plan shows maps of existing and proposed trails, private roads, and the management of recreational uses. (read more)

An Activist Shares Her Story: California Wilderness Protected!
November 15, 2006
On October 17, the Northern California Coastal Wild Heritage Wilderness Act of 2006 became federal law. The bill added 275,830 acres of federal public roadless land to the Federal Wilderness Preservation System, officially designated as Wilderness. It also protects segments of the Black Butte River (a tributary of the Middle Fork Eel) as Wild and Scenic for 21 miles on existing federal public land, with an additional 6,563 acres for a grand total of 282,393 new Wilderness acres. (read more)


Ancient Forest International
April 4, 2005
AFI is a co-sponsor of Journey to the Sea, a fun adventure to unite people in the restoration and preservation of the entire Klamath-Trinity basin and our native salmon. The event will be composed of several guided hikes and rafting trips from May 17 to 27, 2005, and a river rally at the mouth of the Klamath River May 28-29. For more information visit *www.journeytosea.org* or call 707/574-1077. (read more)



Contact Information

Email: afi@ancientforests.org
Web Site: www.ancientforests.org
Phone: (707) 923-3015 - Fax: (707) 923-3015
P.O. Box 1850 Redway, CA 95560