Working forest conservation easements allow private landowners to permanently conserve their forests for a variety of public benefits while keeping them in private ownership. Find out more about this form of conservation easement pioneered by PFT to keep working forests working and to protect their benefits to wildlife, water, climate, and the economy.
Since January, when Oregon Governor Kate Brown created the Governor’s Council on Wildfire Response, PFT has been an active participant in two of its committees. Read PFT’s public comments from the Council’s meeting on September 26, 2019.
In Pacific Forest Trust’s e-newsletter, Forest Flash, we send you the most recent PFT news and updates on forests, clean water, climate, and wildlife, no more than once or twice a month. In this month’s update: Climate strike, fire resilience in Oregon, and stopping easement fraud.
PFT made comments at a public forum for California Water’s Future held by the California Department of Food and Agriculture (CDFA) in Redding, CA on August 6, 2019, and submitted detailed comments on September 1, 2019. Find out more.
Dr. Andrea Tuttle, former director of the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, responds to recent claims about California’s rules for carbon accounting of forest offsets. California is renowned for its leading role in fighting climate change. Along with electricity and transportation, forests are—and must be—a big part of the solution. While the state is stepping up its game to capture forest benefits through incentives, grants, and new voluntary approaches, forest offsets continue to have an important role.
PFT President Laurie A. Wayburn on finding common ground: We can find it on the land that binds us together and to future generations.
