Trees Foundation News
Eco-Activist Benefit for Richard Gienger
The Richard Gienger Report
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,…
Read MoreRural 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 MoreWildfire Preparedness Webinar Recording
Presented by Southern Humboldt Fire Safe Council, Garberville Firewise and Benbow Firewise. Watch a recording of the webinar at the link below! Link: https://sohumfiresafe.org/
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 MoreSalmonid Restoration Partnership
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…
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 MoreA Native Urban Forest Grows in Petaluma
ReLeaf Petaluma has made steady progress in expanding Petaluma’s Urban Forest since it planted its first 150 trees in April 2021. We celebrated our 1,000th tree in December 2023, which was a wonderful milestone. We finished the 2023/24 planting season with an additional 900 trees, bringing the total number planted by ReLeaf as of April…
Read MoreEel River Wailaki
In the spring of 2024, the staff of Trees Foundation met with the board of Eel River Wailaki to make our partnership official! Although we have already had the opportunity to work on a variety of projects together, we are now excited to be able to offer additional support for their organization. Over the past…
Read MoreProject Reports: Cereus Fund
For over 23 years, with direct input from our Cereus Funder, Trees Foundation was able to grant nearly a million dollars to our Partner Groups. With the recent passing of our generous benefactor, our fundraising efforts are increasing in our hope to continue offering these kinds of grant opportunities. The following reports are from some…
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