ForestLife Summer 2017
In this Issue: Conserving Black Butte, CARBON ACT, Working with Fire, A Mile of Pacific Crest Trail Conserved, Three Million Trees Planted at Goose Lake
President’s Letter: Healthy Forests, Healthy People
Laurie Wayburn points out the similarities in the ways we can care for the health of both people and forests.
Conserving a Working Forest on Black Butte’s Iconic Landscape
Pacific Forest Trust is working with Michigan-California Timber Company to secure a conservation easement for its working forest on the edge of Black Butte near Mt. Shasta.
Three Million Trees Planted at Goose Lake Working Forest
A two-year cooperative reforestation project planted 3 million ponderosa pine trees at the Goose Lake Working Forest in Modoc County, California.
Searle Whitney’s Gift to the Future
C. Searle Whitney left a generous bequest to further Pacific Forest Trust’s effort to conserve working forests. PFT will start a fellowship program in his honor.
More Pacific Crest Trail Conserved
The MountCrest Working Forest has transferred more than 300 acres of land to the BLM, including a mile of the Pacific Crest Trail, to become permanent part of the Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument.
