Please Welcome Our New Partner....: Central Coast Forest Watch
Central Coast Forest Watch (CCFW) is the new kid on the block. Formed in 2007, CCFW is just getting its feet wet in local forest issues. CCFW's staff person, Jodi Frediani, a long-time forest advocate, has kept busy this season on a number of projects.
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Cereus Fund: Celebrates Nine Years of Empowering Community Action
Over the past nine years, the Cereus Fund of the Trees Foundation has helped enable restoration and preservation throughout California's North Coast. In total, the Cereus Fund, Trees Foundation's largest and longest-running donor-advised grantor, has contributed hundreds of thousands of dollars to grassroots environmental projects throughout the redwood region. In this issue we highlight the Cereus Fund grants for 2007. Dozens of community-based groups, and well over one hundred projects have benefited from the vision and commitment of the Cereus Fund over nearly a decade of giving. With a focus on grassroots solutions and sustainable communities, the Cereus Fund has empowered a wide range of strategies and tactics as part of a vision of holistic recovery for the globally unique north coast.
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DIGGIN' IN: The Gienger Report
As I write this we're in the middle of July. Everything has been really dry. Lightning fires around the Klamath, the Sierras, and Southern California. CDF, know known as CalFire, reported over 170 fires started from a spate of lightning fires last week. And then--lo' and behold--the North Coast was blessed with, in many places, about an inch of real rain overnight between July 17th & 18th. A beautiful respite. Supposed to be back to hot and dry next week. I hear that the Southern Humboldt Fire Plan is being pushed to completion. Stream and watershed restoration work, as well as many fuel hazard reduction projects, are in full swing.
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Toxic Legacy in Humboldt Bay
A report released in April 2007 by Simpson Timber Company confirms extensive dioxin contamination at the site of the former Simpson Plywood Mill on Waterfront Drive in Eureka. Simpson and a previous owner used dioxin-laden wood preservative pentachlorophenol (penta) at the site from the 1950's to 1968. Those chemicals are still present at highly toxic levels beneath the old sawmill, in adjacent drainage ditches, and in Humboldt Bay sediments.
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Essential Dry Season Water Storage
You can help keep the rivers flowing in the dry season, aiding salmon, gardens, and our economy, by storing enough water during the rainy season for the dry months ahead.
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Endow Your Conservation Vision: Donor-Advised Program Links You To Community Action
Trees Foundation's Donor-Advised Program links the conservation goals of individuals with the funding needs of North Coast community-based environmental organizations. Since 1999 Trees Foundation has managed the Donor-Advised Program on behalf of charitable donors to direct hundreds of thousands of dollars in tax-deductible gifts to regional conservation and restoration projects. You can join this effective effort to further the recovery of redwood region forests, rivers, and wildlife.
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Herbicides in the State Park
The California State Parks department and the County of Humboldt are coming under increasing scrutiny for a proposal to spray herbicides on the south fork and main stem of the Eel River to eradicate purple loosestrife, a highly invasive weed that can change ecosystem dynamics and is very difficult to eradicate. The herbicide that Parks and the county plan to use is called imazapyr.
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Will Old Growth be Logged for Cattle Trucks?
A plan by the cattle industry and CalTrans to widen Route 101 through Richardson Grove State Park so it can accommodate large cattle-hauling trucks has raised alarm among citizens and environmental protection groups, who want to see the trees in the Park protected.
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