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Then & Now! Luna
A Few of Our Partners Revisit Projects From Years Past and Share Where They Stand Today Then from Trees Foundation’s Branching Out, Winter 1998/99 Butterfly’s Occupation Reaches One Year As winter storms began to descend upon Humboldt County and the longest night of the year approached, a lone vigil continued, high atop an ancient redwood…
Read MoreThen & Now! Ancient Forest International
A Few of Our Partners Revisit Projects From Years Past and Share Where They Stand Today Then Excerpt from: “The Alerce Odyssey, A Journey to the Hidden Rainforests of Chile,” Earth Island Journal, Fall 1989 By Rick Klein An International Crew Puerto Montt, Chile, 1989 I looked out over the small city where the transcontinental…
Read MoreThen & Now! Sanctuary Forest
A Few of Our Partners Revisit Projects From Years Past and Share Where They Stand Today Then From Trees Foundation’s Branching Out, Winter 2007 Sanctuary Forest’s Mattole Flow Program continues to lead the way for our community and the land trust movement in the area of rural water conservation and protection of instream flows. The…
Read MoreThen & Now! Mattole Salmon Group
A Few of Our Partners Revisit Projects From Years Past and Share Where They Stand Today Then From Trees Foundation’s Branching Out, Spring 2000 The Mattole Salmon Group is marking its 20th anniversary of working to rescue salmon runs in the Mattole River. Salmon Group crews undertook their first efforts to trap adult Chinook salmon…
Read MoreCalifornia Fescue
Of the more than 300 grasses that are native to the state, California fescue is among the most beautiful. With its gray-green leaves, it is a bright spot in shady woodlands. A perennial bunchgrass, it forms dense, arching clumps about two feet tall, and in late spring it sends up flower spikes up to four…
Read MoreThen & Now! Julia Butterfly Hill
Then & Now! Julia Butterfly Hill ascended Luna—a giant 1,500-year-old redwood tree near Stafford, California—in December 1997. She lived in Luna for 738 days, until finally descending in December 1999 when an agreement was made with Pacific Lumber Company that protected Luna and a 200-foot buffer zone surrounding the tree. Julia Butterfly Hill was interviewed…
Read MoreThen & Now! Campaign to Restore Jackson State Forest
A Few of Our Partners Revisit Projects From Years Past and Share Where They Stand Today Then Why I’ve Rejoined the Battle to Restore Jackson State Forest By Vince Taylor Starting in the mid 1990s, I began working to change the management of Jackson Demonstration State Forest (JDSF) away from its single-minded focus on commercial…
Read MoreEditor’s Note
The Trees Foundation turns 30 this year! To celebrate the many amazing people that have put their heart into Trees over the decades, we brought back the activist photo collages that were a mainstay of our annual reports from 1998-2004. Please know that for every person pictured in these pages, there are dozens more. This…
Read MoreHow Does Trees Foundation Support Your Work?
The support of Trees Foundation—both its expertise and its spirit—has allowed Friends of Elk River to expand from a Facebook page, mostly reacting to logging plans and the agencies that are supposed to regulate them, to an organization dedicated to building long-term bonds between watershed and community.—Friends of Elk River By providing access to funding,…
Read MorePomo Perspective: Priscilla Hunter and Polly Girvin on Jackson Demonstration State Forest Logging
Transcript of April 19, 2021,KZYX Public Affairs show hostedby Alicia Littletree Bales Alicia Littletree Bales: [Following radio show’s intro music] That was Holly Near and Emma’s Revolution performing “Listen to the Voices.” I’m Alicia in the Ukiah studio, and I’m here with Priscilla Hunter, who’s an elder and former Chairwoman of the Coyote Valley Band…
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