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.
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?
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!
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.
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.
