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From Roy’s Dam to Roy’s Riffles: Removing the Top-Priority Barrier for Central California Coho Salmon
A free-flowing creek replaced a nearly 100-year-old dam in Central California this past year, thanks to a decades-long restoration effort that is intimately tied to the genesis of the Marin County-based Salmon Protection And Watershed Network, or SPAWN. In December 1996, Todd Steiner stopped to look at an old fish ladder on the San Geronimo…
Read MoreTrees Foundation Welcomes: Willits Environmental Center!
In 2020, Trees Foundation was thrilled to welcome Willits Environmental Center (WEC) as a Trees Foundation partner group. Kerry Reynolds, the Director of Organizational Development and Outreach for Trees Foundation, recently spoke with WEC founders David and Ellen Drell about their organization’s history. Kerry Reynolds When did Willits Environmental Center get its start? David Drell…
Read MoreVirtual Salmonid Restoration Conference: Adaptation in Motion, April 21–23, 2021
Salmonid Restoration Federation (SRF) is offering our first (and perhaps last) virtual Salmonid Restoration Conference, April 21–23, 2021. When SRF had to cancel the 2020 Conference last year due to COVID-19, it was hard to fathom that a year later, we would still be trying to navigate new ways to provide technical education to the…
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The full collection of Trees Foundation’s grassroots publication is now a part of the Special Collections of Stanford University Library. Our publication was titled Branching Out from 1998-2007, and changed to Forest & River News in 2008.
Read MoreReckoning with Fire in the Klamath Mountains and the West
Fire Management in Northern California and Oregon By Will Harling,MidKlamath Watershed Council “Indian know, and bye-un-bye White Man say he know too, but Indian say, WHITE MAN YOU KNOW TOO LATE.”—Klamath River Jack, May 27, 1916, in correspondence with U.S. Forest Service Ranger Jim Casey Sometimes it feels too late. Like the boulder has rolled…
Read MoreTenmile Creek Forest Health Pilot Project to Develop New Tools for Regional Planning
The Tenmile Creek Watershed Forest Health Pilot Project will begin in July 2020, thanks to funding provided by the North Coast Resource Partnership’s Demonstration Program. The Eel River Recovery Project identified forest health and elevated evapotranspiration of over-stocked forests in Tenmile Creek tributaries as a problem constraining stream flow (see related ERRP article) and began to explore whether there might be funds available to remedy the problem. A second major long-term objective is carbon sequestration to moderate climate change at the Eel River watershed scale.
Read MoreAction Plan for Tenmile Creek Brings Restoration into Focus
Since August 2018, the Eel River Recovery Project (ERRP) has been working on the Tenmile Creek Conservation and Restoration Pilot Project funded by the California State Coastal Conservancy (SCC) using Prop 1 grant funds. The project aims to fix riparian zones, control erosion, and plan for water conservation in two important fish-producing tributaries, Streeter Creek and Big Rock Creek. The culminating product of the grant is the Tenmile Creek Watershed Conservation and Restoration Action Plan, which is available for review at www.eelriverrecovery.org (comments accepted until July 22).
Read MoreWelcome to Our New Website!
It had been over a decade since our website had anything more that minor changes, so we knew it was time for a major overhaul. Our content is now easier to view and navigate from any digital device, whether you’re looking to read stories from our quarterly magazine, Forest & River News, or if you’d like to…
Read MoreLost Coast Interpretive Association
The Cereus Fund of Trees Foundation has been funding Lost Coast Interpretive Association’s invasive plant programs since 2016. Since that time we have worked to strengthen our partnership with California State Parks, Bureau of Land Management (BLM), the community of Shelter Cove, and other partners in order to address the problems invasive plants cause on…
Read MoreTrees Foundation: A Beginning
Fall of 2011 By Leib Ostrow
I’ve been invited to write a piece about the origins of the Trees Foundation in recognition of its twenty years of service.