Fall 2023
ForestLife is Pacific Forest Trust’s newsletter, with news and insight about our work to sustain America’s forests for all their benefits of wood, water, wildlife, and people’s well being, in cooperation with private landowners and communities.
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In This Issue:
PFT Partners with the Southern Sierra Miwuk Nation
Sitting on Henness Ridge, just above the Yosemite Valley, with magnificent views of the Wild and Scenic Merced River and across the Central Valley to the California coast, is a land of enormous cultural as well as natural significance.
President’s Letter: Fall 2023
Fall 2023 President's Letter: Endurance and AmbitionApproaching the close of our 30th year, it's a time of reflection. This Forest Life features stories of both major accomplishments and new horizons in our work. Some of these stories, like the completion of the...
Restoring Natural Fire Regimes for a Safer Future: PFT’s Fire Management
Fall 2023 Restoring Natural Fire Regimes for a Safer Future: PFT's Fire Management The West’s forests are naturally fire-adapted, but a century of fire suppression has inadvertently led to more fire risk rather than lowering it. Pacific Forest Trust has been at...
Shasta Timberlands: Reweaving Nature’s Tapestry for Wildlife, Climate and a Sustained Forest Economy
Fall 2023 Shasta Timberlands: Reweaving Nature’s Tapestry for Wildlife, Climate and a Sustained Forest Economy Nestled amidst the rolling, forested ridges along the northeastern slopes of Mount Shasta, a remarkable conservation effort on 7,500 acres of uniquely...
Demonstrating a New Relationship with Fire to Benefit Forest Ecosystems and Communities
Fall 2023 PFT Partners with the Southern Sierra Miwuk Nation It’s one thing to advocate for managing for more fire resilient landscapes and communities—it’s another to actually do it. Now, thanks to a generous grant from the Gordon and Betty Moore...
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...
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...