The Richard Gienger Report

Trees down from heavy snowfall in Standley Creek S.F. Eel River 2023. This watershed is salmonid habitat and a focus of restoration plan to be implemented. Pat Moorhouse
Ragged channel and riparian reach of coho refugia at a fork in Gulch 7 tributary of Anderson Creek —Richard and Tom Leroy, 13 March 2025. Photo by Patrick Moorhouse

It’s hard to write this column with the incredible pressures growing, in particular, what we see and feel in our own country, pushing for authoritarian control and fomenting more and more, deeper and deeper conflict. This tends to permeate deeply into our consciousness. Of course, this has been with us, and much of the world,…

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Rural Resilience Partnership Awarded Catalyst Funding through Redwood Region RISE

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Rockefeller Redwood Forest

Trees Foundation is proud to announce that our regional collaborative, The Rural Resilience Partnership, has been selected as a Catalyst Fund recipient through the regional Redwood Region RISE (Resilient Inclusive Sustainable Economy) initiative. Our project, Career Pathways: Fire, Forest, Fish, and Facilities, has been selected to receive over 1.1 million dollars to support the development…

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Trees Foundation New Partner Group

Grow Together’s school garden program at Alice Birney Elementary in Eureka. Photo by Jesse Alm

Grow Together The vision of Grow Together Gardens is to cultivate gardens for healing, education, community empowerment, and ecological stewardship. Through school garden programming, Grow Together utilizes a stewardship-based approach to garden learning, putting into practice place-based and social-emotional learning strategies. Their team of garden educators support 5 Humboldt County schools with their garden stewards…

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Environmental Arts Grants

Fire making, Photo by James Ficklin

Trees Foundation was founded to provide support for healthy land stewardship on the North Coast. In an effort to inspire the next generation of environmentally conscious citizens, we invited a small group of schools in our community to apply for environmental arts grants. We are delighted to share a few of the school reports from…

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Western Klamath Restoration Partnership

2024 Klamath River Prescribed Fire Training Exchange (KTREX) The Western Klamath Restoration Partnership (WKRP), which includes the Mid Klamath Watershed Council (MKWC), Karuk Tribe, Salmon River Restoration Council (SRRC), and regional partners, conducted multiple prescribed burns on private lands again last fall, for the eleventh year in a row. Since 2014, WKRP partners have hosted…

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Salmonid Restoration Partnership

Photo by Chris Berry

Salmonid Restoration Federation and California Indian Environmental Alliance Receive NOAA Fisheries “Tribal Capacity and Climate Resilience” Award to Support California North Coast Tribes Fisheries Restoration & Climate Resilience  Salmonid Restoration Federation (SRF) and California Indian Environmental Alliance (CIEA) are thrilled to announce that the California North Coast Tribal Capacity and Climate Resilience Project has been awarded…

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California’s 30×30 Initiative

Potter Valley Project Dams Removal / Eel River Restoration from the Power in Nature coalition

by Josefina Barrantes, 30×30 Coordinator, EPIC California has signed onto a global agreement to durably protect 30% of land and coastal water by the year 2030. This initiative started as an international goal that was first proposed in a 2019 scientific article titled “A Global Deal for Nature” (GDN), which demonstrated the need for increased…

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