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Engaging the Next Generation on Mount Ashland Demonstration Forest
Winter 2025 Engaging the Next Generation on Mount Ashland Demonstration Forest PFT is continuing its mission to advance climate-resilient restoration through our Mt. Ashland Demonstration Forest (MADF), a vital outdoor classroom for local students. This 1,130-acre...
Documenting the Tallest Trees: A Conversation with Michael Taylor
Winter 2025 Documenting the Tallest Trees: A Conservation with Michael Taylor Pacific Forest Trust supports Michael Taylor’s work documenting the tallest, biggest trees in California and beyond. Here, he shares some of his findings and motivations. 1. What compels...
Shaping California’s Fire Policy
Winter 2025 Shaping California’s Fire Policy Pacific Forest Trust plays a pivotal role in shaping and driving key fire legislation that promotes the use of beneficial fire as a tool for reducing wildfire risk and restoring ecosystem health. This year, PFT was the...
Pioneering Large-Scale Prescribed Fire for Healthy Private Working Forests
Winter 2025 Pioneering Large-Scale Prescribed Fire for Healthy Private Working Forests PFT is a “think and do” organization. Our work in restoring good fire to the landscape is a powerful example of that. PFT’s pioneering work to develop incentives and policies to...
Securing California’s Water and Wildlife: The Trinity Headwaters Conservation Project
Winter 2025 Securing California’s Water and Wildlife: The Trinity Headwaters Conservation Project In a unique partnership, PFT completed the acquisition and protection of almost 11,000 acres at the headwaters of the Trinity River, conserving some of the most...
Supporting Fire and Habitat Resilience through Accelerating Fuels Management
Winter 2025 Supporting Fire and Habitat Resilience through Accelerating Fuels Management The Pacific Forest Trust has launched an exciting new project focused on how fuels and fire management practices can benefit both human and animal/plant forest communities,...
President’s Letter Winter 2025
Winter 2025 President's Letter: The Beauty and Blessings of Old ForestsBeing in an old forest is always inspiring, calming and rejuvenating. You walk into one overwhelmed by our current press of events and emerge more settled, with a sense of our place in the world...
Forest Flash: November 2024
FOREST FLASH November 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.Building on Success: Continued Prescribed Burns at McCloud Soda...
Forest Flash: October 2024
FOREST FLASH October 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. Trick or Treat: Historic California Climate Bond Heads to November...
Forest Flash: September 2024
FOREST FLASH September 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.Representative Garamendi Introduces Landmark Bill to Expand Forest...
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...