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Senior Accountant About Pacific Forest Trust Pacific Forest Trust (PFT) delivers landscape-scale private forest conservation in the West and develops innovative incentives for forest conservation at the national level. We do so in ways that reward private landowners...
Fighting Fire with “Good Fire”: Prescribed Burning 101 on McCloud Soda Springs
Fighting Fire with "Good Fire" Video Resources to Promote Prescribed Burning and the Restoration of Natural, Beneficial Fire Regimes Wildfires have increasingly threatened communities in California and the West, highlighting the urgent need for proactive fire...
Our Progress on 30×30: CNRA Webinar Featuring PFT’s Laurie Wayburn
Join us on Monday, September 9th, at 12pm PT for a special webinar, hosted by California Natural Resources Agency, featuring PFT President Laurie Wayburn and other climate leaders. The panel, titled "Our Progress on 30x30: Creative Conservation across California that...
Laurie Wayburn to Speak at Techonomy Climate NYC
PFT President Laurie Wayburn is delighted to speak about our organization's innovative work to combat the climate crisis at this year's event. Techonomy Climate: Driving Sustainable Innovation, presented by Worth Media Group, will take place on September 25th at City...
Forest Flash: August 2024
FOREST FLASH AUGUST 2024 In Pacific Forest Trust's e-newsletter, Forest Flash, we send you the most recent PFT news and updates on forests, clean water, climate, and wildlife. Subscribe here.Trinity Headwaters Conservation Project Successfully Closes, Protecting Part...
Expansive Trinity Headwaters Permanently Protected!
In a win for securing California’s future, crucial portion of its life-sustaining headwaters are permanently protected Globally significant biodiversity hotspot with diverse conifer forests, wet meadows and pristine lakes and key California water supplies for millions...
Forest Flash: July 2024
FOREST FLASH JULY 2024 In Pacific Forest Trust's e-newsletter, Forest Flash, we send you the most recent PFT news and updates on forests, clean water, climate, and wildlife. Subscribe here. Restoring Critical Salmon Habitat on van Eck Oregon PFT has just completed a...
Forest Flash: June 2024
FOREST FLASH JUNE 2024 In Pacific Forest Trust's e-newsletter, Forest Flash, we send you the most recent PFT news and updates on forests, clean water, climate, and wildlife. Subscribe here.Inaugural Student Field Trip on Mt. Ashland Demonstration Forest a Huge...
Good Fire and Natural Climate Solutions
Spring 2024 Good Fire and Natural Climate Solutions As the impacts of climate change increase, California policymakers forge bipartisan consensus and collaboration to scale up solutions. In the Golden State, legislators have worked across party lines to support...
Donor Highlight: Kathy Malaney of the Malaney Family Foundation
Spring 2024 Donor Highlight: Kathy Malaney of the Malaney Family Foundation Kathy Malaney has explored PFT’s work with inspiring curiosity and, along with her husband, Sanjeev, is now a significant supporter of our efforts to restore and manage forests for all their...
Sustaining Conservation Gains When Forests Change Hands
Spring 2024 Sustaining Conservation Gains When Forests Change Hands Millions of acres of private forest are sold and bought every year, with subsequent changes in management that can impact conservation values such as watersheds and habitats as new owners seek a...
Heritage and Heart on the Willow-Witt Ranch
Spring 2024 Heritage and Heart on the Willow-Witt Ranch In 2021, Suzanne Willow and Lanita Witt began discussing how they could protect their beloved Willow-Witt Ranch, fulfilling their goal of sharing its magic and well-managed forests with future generations....
President’s Letter Spring 2024
Spring 2024 President's Letter: A Natural Path to SafetyWith impacts of climate change ever more apparent, the call for natural climate solutions benefitting both mitigation and adaptation has becomeevermoreinsistent. Butwhatthatmeans, and how we do it, has not been...
ForestLife: Spring 2024
SPRING 2024ForestLife 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...
Forest Flash: May 2024
FOREST FLASH May 2024 In Pacific Forest Trust's e-newsletter, Forest Flash, we send you the most recent PFT news and updates on forests, clean water, climate, and wildlife. Subscribe here.PFT Partners with the Southern Sierra Miwuk Nation for Historic Land Return...