The Unique Potential for EcoCultural Recovery

Trees Foundation
November 15, 2006


California's North Coast is a global treasure at the southern extreme of the world's largest coastal temperate rainforest. Coastal temperate rainforest once covered less than 1% of the earth, now only half of that remains. The ecological devastation of the past 150 years is threatening the survival of this delicate web of life.

However, the building blocks for ecocultural recovery along the North Coast are abundant. For example: over 1 million acres are permanently protected as Wilderness, the longest unroaded coastline in the continental United States (the Lost Coast) is protected, over 6 million acres of public lands provide for citizen input into conservation priorities, strong tribal communities provide needed Traditional Ecological Knowledge, and community-based organizations have been working for over three decades to connect, protect, and restore this globally-unique region.

In this issue three of Trees Foundation's Partners explore the complex, rich, exuberant interdependency of the North Coast. Karen Pickett of Bay Area Coalition for Headwaters and Earth First!, Hawk Rosales of the InterTribal Sinkyone Wilderness Council, and Lesley Adams of the Klamath-Siskiyou Wildlands Center discuss the range and depth of a vibrant ecocultural recovery.


This article can be found online at www.treesfoundation.org/publications/article-248

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