Trees Foundation is a resource center serving local forest conservation groups through technical support, training and services. We help empower our Affiliate organizations and individual activists to further the cause of environmental protection.
The people at Trees Foundation are inspired by what our Affiliate organizations are able to accomplish and proud of our role as a support team dedicated to assisting their efforts. In a complex, ever-growing world economy, the importance of the preservation of irreplaceable ecosystems can slip away. We have seen that when we stand together in vision and unity, our network can be a powerful tool for change.
Trees Foundation can be seen as the hub of a wheel with many spokes; each spoke reaches to a different group strengthening connection, promoting their vision, providing services and equipment that small groups need not duplicate. With the strength of this unity, Trees Foundation is able to help even a single inspired voice make a difference. Working together in this network means that in North Coastal California, the whole does indeed, equal more than the sum of the parts.


11th Annual Coho Confab on the Smith River
September 26, 2008 through September 28, 2008
The Coho Confab is a symposium to explore watershed restoration, learn restoration techniques to recover coho salmon populations, and to network with other fish-centric people. The Confab is an inf...


Now it's up to you.
December 10, 2007
Now it's up to you. (read more)


Endow Your Conservation Vision: Donor-Advised Program Links You To Community Action
August 22, 2007
Trees Foundation's Donor-Advised Program links the conservation goals of individuals with the funding needs of North Coast community-based environmental organizations. Since 1999 Trees Foundation has managed the Donor-Advised Program on behalf of charitable donors to direct hundreds of thousands of dollars in tax-deductible gifts to regional conservation and restoration projects. You can join this effective effort to further the recovery of redwood region forests, rivers, and wildlife. (read more)


Coho Confab: Annual Watershed Restoration Conference Returns to Natal Waters August 17-19, 2007
April 24, 2007
The tenth annual Coho Confab will return to its origins (read more)


The Economics of Wildlands Networks
April 20, 2007
Economy: derived from the Greek, meaning manager of a household; steward--O.E.D. (read more)


Community Support Empowers Community Action
November 15, 2006
Never doubt that a few, thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world --indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.--Margaret Mead (read more)


Cereus Fund Highlights Eight Years of Sustaining Grassroots Environmental Projects
April 5, 2006

2006 Cereus Fund Grant Awards (read more)


Marin County Once Again Welcomes the Coho Confab, August 25-27, 2006
April 5, 2006
Trees Foundation, the Salmonid Restoration Federation (SRF), and Salmon Protection and Watershed Network (SPAWN) are proud to invite you to attend the 9th Annual Coho Confab. This dynamic annual event brings together community members, landowners, activists, scientists, and restoration ecologists in an effort to accelerate the recovery of imperiled salmon and steelhead and countless other species in our coastal watersheds. The Confab is a weekend of hands-on workshops, project site tours, networking, and fun. Workshops are designed to provide participants with the latest restoration field skills and ideas for recovering our home watersheds. (read more)


Donor-Advised Program Achieves Your Conservation Goals
April 5, 2006
The Donor Advised Program links the conservation goals of individuals with the funding needs of North Coast community-based environmental organizations. Since 1999 Trees Foundation has managed the Donor-Advised Program on behalf of charitable donors to direct hundreds of thousands of dollars in tax-deductible gifts to regional conservation and restoration projects. (read more)


Trees Foundation Features New Wide-format Printer!
December 1, 2005
Trees Foundation is pleased to announce our latest service available to our partner groups: large-scale printing! (read more)


Trees GIS In Action
December 1, 2005
Geographic Information Systems, GIS, is defined as computer programming combined with informational databases that can capture, store, check, integrate, analyze, and display data about the earth that is spatially referenced, most often in the form of maps. Trees Foundation's experienced GIS technician is available to work with individuals and organizations to produce GIS maps that will assist them in their pursuit of north coast environmental protection. (read more)


2005 Coho Confab: Eight Years of Training Watershed Advocates
December 1, 2005
The 8th annual Coho Confab was held August 12-14, 2005 at the Wolf Creek Education Center in Redwood National Park in Humboldt County. The Confab, produced and hosted by Trees Foundation and the Salmonid Restoration Federation, is an outdoor symposium to explore watershed restoration and learn techniques to enhance recovery of salmon and steelhead. The Confab brought together 80 community members, landowners, activists, scientists, and restoration ecologists for a weekend of innovative skills-building workshops, tours of restoration projects, community networking, and fun. (read more)


Cereus Fund Announces 7th Annual Grassroots Grant Awards
April 4, 2005
The Cereus Fund of the Trees Foundation, a donor-advised fund, was happy to announce in January the grassroots organizations that it will support for 2005. The Cereus Fund is committed to grassroots solutions to environmental challenges and the building of sustainable communities along California's biologically-rich North Coast by funding projects of Trees Foundation's partners. (read more)


Coho Confab 2005: August 12-14, Redwood National Park: Sign up for the Coho Confab mailing list now.
April 4, 2005
The 8th annual Coho Confab will be held August 12-14, 2005, at the Wolf Creek Education Center in Redwood National Park, five miles north of Orick and three miles from the ocean, in Humboldt County. Trees Foundation will once again partner with the Salmon Restoration Federation to host the Coho Confab, which is a symposium to explore watershed restoration and learn techniques to enhance recovery of salmon and steelhead. (read more)


Trees Foundation: A Growing Network Of Community Action
December 8, 2004
Since 1991 Trees Foundation has been assisting and supporting grassroots conservation and restoration groups along California's North Coast. Trees has empowered community-based activism by providing professional and technical services, free of charge, that are often difficult to obtain in rural areas, or prohibitively expensive for lean organizations focused on issues critical to the revival of North Coast wildlands and imperiled ecosystems. (read more)


Save This Date!! July 22-24, 2005, For The 8th Annual Coho Confab
December 8, 2004
The 8th Annual Coho Confab will be hosted in the magnificent Smith River watershed on July 22-24, 2005. The specific site, co-host group(s), and additional information will be announced in the next issue of Branching Out and posted at the Trees Foundation website, www.treesfoundation.org. You can be sure that we will have an agenda full of the most popular workshops of prior Coho Confabs, as well as new exciting workshops. Tentative workshops include monitoring, land acquisition and land management, estuary issues, fish identification and more. We will offer an opportunity to get "out of the classroom and into the field" on the last major un-dammed river in California. Contact Trees Foundation for more information, and look for our regular Coho Confab Updates in Branching Out and on www.treesfoundation.org. (read more)


Coho Confab 2004, Creating a Cooperative Community
September 6, 2004
For the past seven years, Trees Foundation has had the special privilege of organizing what has become a tremendous annual event: the Coho Confab. This year, we feel especially proud of its growth and success. Having migrated south to Marin County, we are continuing the annual meandering of this great event. Along with our returning "co-host" the Salmonid Restoration Federation (SRF), we invited the Marin based watershed group, Salmon Protection And Watershed Network (SPAWN) to join efforts in organizing the 3-day weekend of hands-on restoration workshop trainings and networking opportunities. (read more)


With Many Thanks, Reggae On The River 2004 Fundraiser Was A Great Sucess!!
September 6, 2004
Whew! What a Wild Whirlwind! It is a week later, and the dust has finally settled for another year. The Trees Foundation's Thai Noodle and Bagel Booth at Reggae was a huge success! With lines longer than most, we were able to serve over 2900 delicious meals, including mainly organic ingredients, to hungry reggae-goers. And it could never have been possible without the tremendous support of community members and local businesses. (read more)


Trees Radio Hour: A Voice for Grassroots Activism on the North Coast
September 6, 2004
A major component of Trees Foundation's work with North Coast activists and grassroots environmental groups is helping to get their message out to the public, agency staff, elected officials, and others. Trees has expanded its capability for network partners to effectively reach the community with a new radio program, the Trees Radio Hour on KMUD FM radio broadcast along the North Coast and over the internet. (read more)


Tree's 7th Annual Coho Confab: Please Join Us This August in Marin
April 28, 2004
The Coho Confab is a dynamic annual event that brings together community members, landowners, activists, scientists, and restoration ecologists in an effort to accelerate the recovery of imperiled salmon and steelhead and countless other species in our coastal watersheds. (read more)


You Are Invited to the 11th Annual Coho Confab: August 15-17, 2008 on the Smith River
The Coho Confab is an informal symposium to explore watershed restoration, learn restoration techniques to recover coho salmon populations, and to network with other fish-centric people. Participants and instructors learn from each other's experience and share skills and practices that can be applied to restore habitat in their home watershed. (read more)


Editors Note
North Coast public lands are a treasure that distinguishes our region. These enclaves safeguard rushing rivers and clean drinking water, ancient forests and wild solitude, support sustainable economies, and enrich communities. Yet all too often public trust values are threatened by commercial excess, agency disregard, and myopic "wise-use." Frequently it is citizen vigilance and participation in the stewardship process that guarantees ecologically-sound and culturally-sensitive management of these municipal, state, and federal lands. (read more)



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