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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...
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...
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...
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...