Forest Life Fall 2022 - Pacific Forest Trust

Fall 2022

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.

View or download this issue as a PDF, or read the individual stories online below.

In This Issue:

President’s Letter: Fall 2022 ForestLife

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!

Donor Profile: Ben Hammett

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.

Restoring Fire and Climate Resilience

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.

Offsetting Fiery Rumors

It is widely recognized that forests are our most powerful, rapidly expandable, and extensive natural carbon sink.

Reaching for the Sky on California van Eck

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.

Meet Outside-the-Box Awardee Merv George

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.