Posts Tagged ‘Trees Foundation’
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! 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 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 MoreThe Early Days of Trees Foundation
By Leib Ostrow, co-founder and current Board Treasurer of Trees Foundation Ah, tracing the roots of Trees Foundation. For me its starts with fleeing my birthplace, as industrial a place as you can find, Detroit, Michigan. I had witnessed some of the worst of what humans could do to our Mother Earth and was searching…
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 MoreStanford University subscribes to Forest and River News, and you can too!
This past December, Ben Stone, Curator for American and British History at Stanford University Library wrote to Trees Foundation, “I’m particularly keen to collect and preserve primary sources materials on the environmental history of the American West, especially California. A friend shared with me a paper copy of your summer issue of Forest & River News.…
Read MoreOf Fire and Myth: Will Harling, Bigfoot, and the Power of Place
This story originally appeared on the Fire Adapted Communities Learning Network blog, at fireadaptednetwork.org To have stories like this one on Fire Adaption delivered to your inbox weekly, visit bit.ly/FACNetSubscribe. By Lenya Quinn-Davidson I grew up in the heart of Bigfoot Country. Trinity County, California: a place where stories of Bigfoot encounters are common, even…
Read MoreTrees Foundation’s Cereus Fund Bolsters Grassroots Perseverance in the Redwood Region
A theme of adaptation and perseverance runs through the following updates on projects supported by the Cereus Fund of Trees Foundation in 2020. With planned field trips and gatherings cancelled due to COVID-19, many grassroots environmental organizations supported by the Cereus Fund found other ways to further healthy land stewardship, ecosystem restoration, and environmental advocacy…
Read MoreNo More Prescribed Fire Barriers: Lessons from Lamprey
By Lenya Quinn-Davidson On a typical summer weekend in the late 1990s, you might have found me amid other teenagers, all lounging in the sun a few miles up the road from my house at one of our favorite swimming holes. At this place, the cool waters of Hayfork Creek tumble through a series of…
Read MoreTrees Foundation Welcomes Mid-Eel Watershed Stewards
This spring, Trees Foundation was thrilled to welcome Mid-Eel Watershed Stewards (MEWS) into our Fiscal Sponsorship umbrella. Fiscal Sponsorship is one of the primary ways that Trees Foundation supports the North Coast grassroots environmental community. It allows groups to move swiftly forward in accomplishing their objectives, while we handle the 501(c)3 bookkeeping and financial reporting required to accept tax-deductible donations and grant funding. We asked MEWS founding member Mickey Bailey to share more with Forest & River News readers about this emerging organization.
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