Conservation Partner Organizations at Work
The Oak Knoll Prescribed Fire:
A Landowner’s Perspective
By Mitchell Danforth Wildfires represent the single greatest threat to most of our inland communities, especially in recent times, as fires have grown in size, intensity, and damage to people and property. It is critical to acknowledge that fires are not good or evil, they simply are—and like floods, landslides, snowstorms, and earthquakes, how we…
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The Old Briceland Ridge Prescribed Fire:
An Ecological Field Observer’s Perspective
By Kyle Keegan Ecological Restoration Is Not a Race: Lessons from Western Pond Turtle It was a 70-degree afternoon in February 2022 on Old Briceland Ridge: 1,960 feet of elevation amidst stands of Douglas-fir, scattered Tanoak, and Chinquapin. Winds were light out of the southwest, and relative humidities were in the high 40s. Fire had…
Read MoreAncient Eel River
Whale song interrupted by tectonic collisions. Crushing pressure of oceanic plates giving birth to a new land; accretion and incision; upthrusted matrix of igneous, submarine and metamorphic rocks: sandstone, siltstone, mudstone, clay. Earth, Air, Water, Fire. Green serpent, a temperate rainforest organism unfurled, grasping boundaries of Pacific coastlines. Outstretched arms of ancients holding sky-gardens of…
Read MoreA New Hope: The Northern Mendocino Ecosystem Recovery Alliance
Trees Foundation is thrilled to welcome Northern Mendocino Ecosystem Recovery Alliance (NM-ERA) into our Fiscal Sponsorship umbrella. Fiscal Sponsorship is one of the primary ways that Trees Foundation supports the North Coast grassroots environmental community. It allows groups to move swiftly forward in accomplishing their objectives, while we handle the 501(c)3 bookkeeping and financial reporting…
Read MoreSalmon Habitat Restoration Projects Enhance Habitat for Pollinators
Salmon Protection and Watershed Network By Audrey Fusco, Restoration Ecologist at SPAWN The Salmon Protection and Watershed Network (SPAWN) focuses on protecting and improving habitat for central coast coho salmon and the forests and watersheds they need to survive in the Lagunitas creek watershed of Marin County, CA. We have restored more than 15 acres…
Read MoreClimate Change Hitting Home in the Tenmile Creek Watershed
Eel River Recovery Project By Patrick Higgins The Eel River Recovery Project (ERRP) has been awarded California Coastal Commission Prop 1 grants in the 65-square-mile Tenmile Creek watershed since 2018 to help fund tasks that include monitoring and reporting on water temperature and flow, and the fish community. The group has its headquarters in Laytonville,…
Read MoreThe Richard Gienger Report
In the beginning of my column in the Winter 2021 issue of Forest and River News, I ecstatically described the record October rainfall. Turned out that the zero measurable rain from 1st January 2022 until well into March was a record for at least the last 130 years. Hella scary. At least some significant Chinook…
Read MoreCoalition to Save Jackson Strives to Secure Protections
Environmental Protection Information Center By Matthew Simmons, staff attorney for EPIC Jackson Demonstration State Forest (JDSF) is a nearly 50,000-acre mixed-use forest located in Pomo and Yuki ancestral territory and managed by CAL FIRE. After a century of clearcutting in Northern California, Jackson was created in 1949 to demonstrate sustainable logging. CAL FIRE has managed…
Read MoreAntelope Post-Fire Timber Sale Gets Marginally Better
Klamath Siskiyou Wildlands Center By George Sexton, Director for KSWild Following the August 2021 Antelope Fire on the McCloud Ranger District of the Shasta-Trinity National Forest, the Forest Service did what it often does after a wildfire—namely, the agency proposed an expansive “salvage” logging timber sale. Targeting Old-Growth Reserves The initial Forest Service timber proposal…
Read More24th Annual Coho Confab on the Navarro River
Evolving Strategies to Enhance Coho Salmon Habitat September 9-11, 2022 Salmonid Restoration Federation Salmonid Restoration Federation (SRF) is coordinating the 24th Annual Coho Confab that will take place September 9-11 in the South Fork Eel River watershed. This year’s Coho Confab will be held at Rangjung Yeshe Gomde Buddhist Retreat Center which is a forested…
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