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From Victim to Savior? Forests and other Lands as Natural Climate Solutions
Fall 2023 From Victim to Savior? Forests and other Lands as Natural Climate Solutions There is a saying that as “California goes, so goes the nation.” This is certainly true of the state’s pioneering climate policies and actions. California is again leading in...
PFT President Laurie Wayburn’s Letter to the Editor— the New York Times
PFT President, Laurie Wayburn, recently took to the pages of the New York Times to re-up the…
Donor Highlight: The van Ecks
Fall 2023 Donor Highlight: the Van Ecks PFT’s collaboration with the van Eck family began with Fred van Eck on the van Eck Demonstration Forests and now extends through the next generation with Jan and Cynthia van Eck. In addition to their generous financial...
Forest Flash: November 2023
A Grant for Shasta Timberlands, New Stewardship Associate on Mt. Ashland, and final recommendations for California’s Natural and Working Lands.
Forest Flash: October 2023
In this issue: Safe passage on the Siskiyou Crest, Conserving the Trinity Headwaters, and Planning for continued progress!
Forest Flash: September 2023
Transforming Wildfire Behavior, CA Says No More Fast and Loose Carbon Offsets, and ‘Beyond the Trees’ Screenings in Portland and Beyond!
Forest Flash: Summer Double – August #2
In this issue: Fighting Fire with Fire on McCloud Soda Springs, Expanding Impact in southern Oregon, and Making Strides toward Climate Targets
Our New Award-Winning Film
Collaboratively produced by Imaginary Forces, VanEck, and Pacific Forest Trust, the new award-winning documentary “Beyond the Trees” follows our determined team of climate champions seeking to restore our native forests through conservation-based forest management.
President’s Letter: ForestLife Summer 2023
Seven months into 2023, the message is inescapable. Heat domes. Wildfires on 20 million acres. Unbreathable air. With each fresh disaster, scientists identify climate change as a major factor increasing their intensity and scale. Our home planet is sending out distress signals that get louder every day. Will this compel us to decisive action?
Managing for Climate Resilience on Mount Ashland Demonstration Forest
This summer, leading forest ecologists, silviculturalists, wildlife biologists and indigenous cultural practitioners are joining with PFT staff to help develop the first 10-year management plan for our new 1,130-acre Mount Ashland Demonstration Forest. In bringing together the best available climate science and traditional ecological knowledge to inform our management, we are learning so much!
Saving the Source: Conserving 11,000 acres of the Trinity River Headwaters
PFT’s goal of conserving the core source watersheds of California has moved another key step forward. Our project to acquire and conserve 11,000 acres at the very top of the Trinity River moved closer to completion this past month with the Sierra Nevada Conservancy making a significant grant of $1.4M to PFT to help protect this invaluable source watershed.
Harnessing the Power of Nature to Address Climate Change
With massive floods and fires, droughts and hurricanes, Nature is often highlighted as the victim of climate change. But it is, in fact, perhaps our greatest champion to help remediate climate change.
Donor Profile: Barbara and Mark Daugherty
The very first grant PFT ever received—in 1993—was from the Weeden Foundation, a family foundation with roots in California. They saw the merit of supporting private, voluntary forest conservation, complementing their traditional focus on public lands. Thirty years later, Barbara Weeden Daugherty is continuing that tradition.
Celebrating 30 Years and Forest Wildlife
In late April, forest landowners, community leaders, policy makers, conservationists, and wildlife advocates from across the country gathered to celebrate forests as treasure troves of biodiversity at PFT’s annual Forest Fete.
ForestLife Summer 2023
In this issue: managing for climate resilience on Mt. Ashland, conserving the Trinity River headwaters, harnessing nature to address climate change, and more!