In 2023, PFT will celebrate its 30th year. A lot has happened in these years, with many of our initiatives moving from concept to pilot to implementation. Now, we must move to the broad adoption and landscape scale. Much remains to be done!
Ben Hammett is a lifelong conservationist deeply committed to fighting climate change. He, and his late wife Ruth, began supporting PFT in 2012. Ben recently shared why he feels PFT’s work is so important.
PFT was a lonely voice in 2017 (and for many years before that!) when we advocated for $20 million to increase the use of prescribed fire to reduce unnatural fuel buildup and get more “good” fire on the ground safely.
It is widely recognized that forests are our most powerful, rapidly expandable, and extensive natural carbon sink.
Twenty years ago, Fred van Eck entrusted the conservation of some 9,400 acres of forestland in Oregon and California to PFT. We’ve been steadily demonstrating new approaches to forest management.
Recipient of this year’s Outside-the-Box Award, Merv George Jr. is the Supervisor of the Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forest, working out of Medford, OR, when he isn’t at his grandmother’s home in the Hoopa Valley Reservation.
