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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...
WCB May Meeting Sign-On Letter
Over 100 groups are urging CA Governor Gavin Newsom to fund the 43 projects pending at the state's Wildlife Conservation Board. To meet the state's 30x30 goals for conservation, biodiversity, and climate action, we cannot wait. Sudden funding delays will cause these...
Forest Fete 2024: Celebrating Good Fire!
Here's a selection of photos from our annual gala, Forest Fete! For 2024's installment, we celebrate all the benefits of "good fire," from habitat restoration to mitigation of the catastrophic wildfires that have threatened our communities in recent years. Thanks so...
Annual Report 2023
Hot off the press! Take a look at all PFT has achieved over the past year—in the arenas of policy, conservation, stewardship, public engagement, and beyond—thanks to your critical support! PDF below. [pdf-embedder...
Forest Flash: April 2024
FOREST FLASH April 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.On McCloud Soda Springs, a Historic Burn CommencesPFT’s commitment to...
Forest Flash: March 2024
FOREST FLASH March 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. Dispatch from the Mount Ashland Demonstration Forest: Winter Discussions Lead...
Forest Flash: February 2024
FOREST FLASH February 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-Sponsored Bill Would Scale Up "Good Fire" Senator Monique Limón (D),...
Forest Flash: January 2024
In this issue: Scaling up “good fire” with community engagement, more ‘Beyond the Trees’ screenings, and climate policy advancements in California
Forest Flash: 2023 in Review
In this issue: Conservation wins, policy advancements, and PFT on the big screen; In other words, our year in review!
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.
Forest Life Fall 2023
Read our Fall issue of ForestLife, filled with many stories of our accomplishments and achievements from the past few months, from policy to conservation.
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...