Trees Foundation - Assisting and Empowering Community-Based Conservation Efforts On California's North Coast Since 1991

Trees Foundation
December 11, 2003

	This years Coho Confab participants learn stream monitoring skills Photo: Pat Higgins

Trees Foundation, as part of its mission to advance wildlands protection along the North Coast, provides you two ways to stay abreast of the latest environmental news coming from grassroots activists and the organizations working to protect the forests and rivers stretching from San Francisco to the Oregon border. Branching Out brings you diverse North Coast environmental news quarterly, and now the new North Coast Environmental News Center at www.treesfoundation.org provides current reports on many aspects of the efforts to protect, connect, and restore northwest California. Effective action requires timely information and Trees provides environmental activists with the tools to educate the public, and expand participation in decisions impacting stewardship of North Coast forests, rivers, and wildlife.

In addition to reading the latest regional environmental news, visitors to www.treesfoundation.org can learn more about each of the many grassroots organizations that are doing the hard work to preserve and revitalize ecosystems collapsing from 150 years of industrial mis-management. For more than 12 years Trees has been assisting and supporting community-based conservation and restoration efforts across 15,000 square miles of biologically rich northwest California ecosystems by providing expensive and often difficult to find professional and technical services.

Currently 40 regional groups, plus walk-in activists, benefit from the graphic and web design, fiscal sponsorship, financial consulting, conservation gis mapping, and technical support that Tree provides free of charge. The website is a great way to donate to Trees and each of our partner groups individually, and www.treesfoundation.org also offers an opportunity to get involved with environmental issues that concern you or learn how to volunteer with an affiliated organization near you.

Many of Trees Foundation's partner groups are at the forefront of identifying negative watershed impacts and implementing on-the-ground projects to address them. Trees's Coho Confab compliments these projects by educating and empowering landowners both large and small in hands-on restoration techniques to be applied in their own watersheds.

Not Shown: Circle of Life in Berkeley, Campaign For Old Growth in Oakland, and Friends of Yosemite Vally in Cupertino Photo: Trees GIS Department

The annual Coho Confab, held each August, brings together landowners, restorationists, scientists, and concerned citizens in an informal setting for a fun weekend of skills-building workshops, project tours, and inspirational stories and song to heal damaged watersheds and return native salmon to viability. For the first time, Trees Foundation's 2004 Coho Confab will offer a grassroots grant available to a participant to support initiating or advancing an on-the-ground watershed restoration project with skills learned during the Confab. (see page 7 for more on the Coho Confab).

Trees Foundation plays a unique role in the ecological resurgence of the North Coast. Our ability to leverage professional and financial resources for the benefit of more than 40 grassroots organizations is a significant contribution to connecting, protecting, and restoring endangered habitats and imperiled species across a broad and ecologically-rich landscape. Keep current, get involved, support regional nonprofits, or gain assistance for your own north coast conservation or restoration projects by visiting www.treesfoundation.org or by calling our Garberville office and community resource center at 707-923-4377.


This article can be found online at www.treesfoundation.org/publications/article-128

Forest & River News is produced by Trees Foundation. For more information contact:
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P.O. Box 2202, Redway, CA 95560


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