You made the match! A generous group of our supporters pledged to match new gifts through December 31, up to $50,000. And because of the generosity of supporters like you, we more than reached our matching gift goal!

Though our matching gift challenge is over, you can help us start 2019 right with a gift to support our work to protect forests for all their benefits: wood, water, wildlife, and well-being.

Forests are threatened by climate change, increasingly intense wildfires, and fragmentation. And in a struggling rural economy, landowners face real pressure to develop and convert their properties for other uses.

That’s where Pacific Forest Trust comes in. We work with landowners of all sizes to help ensure their forests remain forests—and are managed to benefit wildlife habitat, water quality, and a well-balanced climate—while remaining productive and contributing to healthy rural economies. We steward more than 105,000 acres in Oregon and California through working forest conservation easements, which protect well-managed land in perpetuity.

This has been a big year for PFT. We established a new office in Portland, we sponsored successful legislation in California that dedicated $1 billion of funding to forest health and wildfire prevention, and by year-end we will have permanently protected more than 6,300 additional acres with new conservation easements in the Mt. Shasta headwaters area.

Our work in the “radical middle” allows forests and those who depend on them to thrive—and there’s much more to be done. It’s your generosity that makes it happen. Please make your 2019 contribution below.