Editor's Note
Landowners everywhere are faced with a plethora of issues in stewarding their land, be it urban, suburban, or rural. Many of these issues present opportunities for landowners to live lighter on the land, thereby reducing their ecological footprint. A land-based stewardship ethic applied across a matrix of private lands can provide the connectivity needed to allow the greatest opportunity for sustainable plant and animal communities to thrive, including the human community. (read more)

Sustaining Instream Flows for Fish and People
It's early August and the Mattole River presents itself as a long grey ribbon of dry gravel running through a tunnel of green leafy banks as seen from a small wooden bridge near its headwaters on the Mendocino-Humboldt County line. (read more)

Motivating Personal Action
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Our Wildfire Predicament

Bill Eastwood Photo: Jeri Fergus

Trees Foundation board member Bill Eastwood is a geologist with 35 years experience in various aspects of watershed restoration and sustainable forestry. As co-director of the Eel River Salmon Restoration Project he has been involved in a wide range of fish, habitat, erosion control, and educational projects. Bill is a founding member of the Institute for Sustainable Forestry (ISF) and served on the staff for ten years. He is also on the staff of the Southern Humboldt Fire Safe Council where he is helping develop a regional fire plan and various fire hazard reduction and education projects. He lives with his wife Gail on 300 acres of forest and meadows on Elk Ridge a few miles north of Briceland in southern Humboldt County. (read more)

Restoring Your Watershed: Coho Confab September 26-28, 2008 on the Smith River
The Coho Confab is an annual symposium to explore watershed restoration, learn techniques to recover coho salmon populations, and network with other fish-centric people. In an informal setting that encourages networking and connection, participants learn skills and practices that can be applied to restore habitats in their home watersheds. Always in a beautiful outdoor setting within the range of the coho, each year the Confab is held in a different location on the North Coast. This year, the 11th annual Confab will be held on the South Fork of the Smith River in the far northwestern corner of California on the weekend of September 26-28. (read more)

Diggin' In: The Gienger Report
Since arriving in the Mattole Valley of Humboldt County in 1971, Richard Gienger has immersed himself in homesteading, forest activism, and watershed restoration. Richard's column covers a range of issues including fisheries and watershed restoration and forestry, plus describes opportunities for the public to make positive contributions in the administrative and legislative arenas as well as in their own backyards. (read more)

Tree-Sitters Descend Victoriously From Freshwater Tree-Village

Following 20 years of intense front-lines struggle to defend Ancient Redwood and Douglas-fir forests from the liquidation logging of Maxxam/ Pacific Lumber, tree-sitters can safely come down from their perches and forest activists of all stripes can turn their attention to other threats. (read more)

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