
“The Pacific Forest Trust has established itself as a leader in creating innovative, practical solutions to the challenges facing America’s forests.”
—U.S. Representative Nancy Pelosi
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Wildlife will have 1,445 more acres of connected—and protected—lands to roam in Oregon’s Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument, thanks to willing landowners who sought out the Pacific Forest Trust’s help in adding lands they own within CSNM boundaries to the Monument. Our latest addition to the CSNM links the Oregon Gulch Research Natural Area to areas of BLM-owned land with old growth forest characteristics. The newly protected parcel was a high-priority for funding, thanks to its location within a key watershed—the Jenny Creek—that protects at-risk salmon and other species. Endangered Northern Spotted Owls nest on BLM lands roughly half a mile away. Read more.
The Pacific Forest Trust (PFT) has been honored by the Climate Action Reserve (CAR), as a "champion" for forests in California's pioneering climate program. CAR develops regulatory-quality accounting standards for greenhouse gas emissions reductions and is the parent of The Climate Registry, the nation's largest carbon registry and offset verification program. PFT President and Co-Founder Laurie Wayburn was presented with a prizefighter's belt
and high praise from CAR President Gary Gero at the organization's 10th anniversary celebration in San Francisco Tuesday night. Read more.
A diverse network of forest land owners, state officials, environmental groups and land trusts are urging lawmakers to make it easier and more cost-effective for state agencies to conserve land by partnering with land trusts. The USDA Forest Service’s Forest Legacy Program provides money to states to pay for public-private conservation efforts with fees generated by offshore oil and gas leases. It has conserved 2.2 million acres since its creation in the 1990 Farm Bill, but could do more if state agencies responsible for implementing the program could call on qualified land trusts to help hold and maintain conservation easements funded by the program, according to 40 groups from across the country who reached out to leaders and ranking members of the Senate and House Agriculture committees, which are holding hearings to reauthorize the next Farm Bill. Read more.
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