Forest & River News
Rural Resilience Partnership Awarded Catalyst Funding through Redwood Region RISE
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…
Read MoreTrees Foundation New Partner Group
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…
Read MoreEnvironmental Arts Grants
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…
Read MoreReflections on 2024 Klamath-Siskiyou Outdoor School
We sit on the bank of the Salmon River, a circle of smiling faces illuminated by the fire. Violin, guitar, and the steady rush of the river serve as the soft soundtrack for our laughter and sweet conversation. On our last night together, I am struck by the beauty of this family we have fostered.…
Read MoreWestern 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…
Read MoreFungi & Fire in the Landscape
by Levon Durr, president of Humboldt Permaculture Guild and owner of Fungaia Farm Fungi play an important role in fire-damaged landscapes by rebuilding soils, attracting insects and birds, and retaining water. These landscape builders, composters, and remediators can be used as allies when faced with excessive fuel loads and fire-scarred soils. Most of us have…
Read MoreCalifornia’s 30×30 Initiative
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…
Read MoreMattole Community Collaboration
Enhancing Instream Flows in the Mattole Headwaters Walker Wise, Water Program Director, Sanctuary Forest The Mattole River flows in a northwest direction for 62 miles from Northern Mendocino to its mouth in Petrolia, making it the longest undammed river wholly within California. At its headwaters, near the village of Whitethorn, the river bends westward towards…
Read MoreThe Richard Gienger Report
I initially started off with this 77th Diggin’In column intending to delve deeply into Northwest Mendocino County: the history, many details, a long overview, its present, and its potential future. There would be many contexts, including, but not limited to, the wild, rugged Coast between Hardy Creek where Highway 1 leaves the Pacific, and the…
Read MoreSPAWN: Return of the Salmon
By Ayano Hayes, Watershed Conservation Manager of Salmon Protection and Watershed Network (SPAWN) Return of the Salmon In West Marin, when winter rains come down, everyone looks to the freshwater streams for loud splashing and bright flashes of pink. In the Lagunitas Creek Watershed, one of the southernmost areas in California to have a stronghold…
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