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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.

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.

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.