Posts Tagged ‘Trees Foundation’
Attn Contractors: Shelter Cove RFP released
The Shelter Cove Resort Improvement District (SCRID) is pleased to announce the release of a Request for Proposals (RFP) for the Undeveloped Private Parcel Fuel Reduction Project, a component of the Shelter Cove Wildfire Resiliency & Community Defense Project (SCWRCDP) funded through the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Community Wildfire Defense Grant (CWDG). SCRID is seeking qualified contractors to perform hazardous…
Read MoreMail Ridge Wildfire Resilience Project
Beginning Implementation & Plans for 2026 Since our last issue of Forest & River News, implementation on Mail Ridge has begun as part of the Southern Humboldt Forest Health Project. Throughout the winter, fuels crews from Briceland Fire, Native Health in Native Hands, and Hybrid Indigenous Stewardship (HIS) treated oak woodland and timber units, performed…
Read MoreForest Health and Fire Resources Update
Spring 2025 By Chelsea Sproul, Fire Resources Coordinator Trees Foundation’s Forest Health and Fire Resources Program has been hard at work on multiple fronts, including coordinating current fuel reduction projects like the Shelter Cove Wildfire Resilience and Community Defense Project (SCWRCDP), conducting community outreach and organizing around projects like the Mail Ridge Shaded Fuel Break,…
Read MoreMessage from the President
The seasonal changes of Fall and Winter often inspire us to reflect. To say we are living in turbulent times describes more than just our climate-driven weather patterns. However dark the impending storms may feel, Trees Foundation and our partner groups have always tried to focus on nurturing our connections to the land to create a…
Read MoreGrowing Trees Foundation
Building Capacity for Collaboration and Environmental Resilience This year has been one of tremendous change and growth for the Trees Foundation. We bid farewell to our long-serving and well-loved Board President Susy Barsotti, and we welcomed a new Board member, John Wilhelm. We also said goodbye to our newest staff member Mary Gaterud, who left the…
Read MoreTrees’ Indispensable Role as a Non-Profit Incubator
By Pat Higgins, Eel River Recovery Project Managing Director In Spring of 2011, I went to the Trees office in Garberville with my old friend Paul Trichilo, and we met with Trees staff Barbara Ristow and Jeri Fergus and Board member Bill Eastwood. I had been contracting with Friends of Eel River (FOER) trying to…
Read MoreSouthern Humboldt Fire Safe Council: Part of the Web of Groups Working Together to Rebuild Our Relationship to Fire
Submitted by Gail Eastwood, Chair, Southern Humboldt Fire Safe Council If you watch busy ants around an anthill for a while, you’ll see many ants industriously moving a bit of grain or chaff or something. It appears to be part of a coordinated effort to achieve some mutual goal. But where is the commander? Who’s…
Read MoreInstitute for Sustainable Forestry: A Brief Retrospective, Current Update on Projects, and Looking Ahead
Submitted by Chip Tittmann, President; Greg Condon, Treasurer; Gray Shaw, Secretary; and Board Directors Richard Gienger, Jeff Hedin, Liz Harwood, and Connie Smyser Over the last 39 years, ISF has built a legacy of promoting forest health, forest protection, and sustainable forest products utilization in NW California, all while collaborating with local NGOs, Tribes, and public…
Read MoreFlowers for Susy
Susy Barsotti, a long-time member of the Hog Farm at Black Oak Ranch in Mendocino, and tireless environmental advocate, recently stepped down from the Trees Foundation Board of Directors after a quarter-century of dedicated service. She served Trees with aplomb, commitment, and boundless energy. Longtime Trees staffer Barbara Ristow recalls Susy “always promoting Trees” showing…
Read MoreCollaborating to Teach Children about Salmon
Friends of the Van Duzen River By Sal Steinberg, Director, Friends of the Van Duzen River I live in one of the most beautiful places on Planet Earth: the Van Duzen Watershed. Within a 15-mile radius there are three K-8 elementary schools: Bridgeville, Cuddeback, and Hydesville. Following 8th grade, students move on to Fortuna High…
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