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Sanctuary Forest successfully completed the first phase of the Upper Mattole River Watershed Restoration Project. This multi-year project is continuing to restore the impacted Mattole by removing abandoned, eroding logging roads that potentially could smother salmonid spawning grounds with tens-of-thousands of cubic yards of sediment.
August, 2003 Update
By Noah Levy (read more)
The Fish Cast Their Vote
December 19, 2011
How can we best and most quickly promote the recovery of salmon habitat in the Mattole River headwaters? The answer to this question has been passionately pursued over the last year by Sanctuary Forest, in collaboration with fishery scientists, restoration experts, and a variety of invested state, federal, and private agencies. Together we have walked streams in the upper Mattole, hoping to learn how to best blend scientific fishery practices in the Northwest with observations of naturally thriving local fish habitat. (read more)
Summer Hike Program: Sharing Knowledge, Spreading Ideas, and Enjoying Nature's Beauty
August 11, 2011
Since our creation in 1987, Sanctuary Forest has been working to conserve the Mattole River watershed through protection of old-growth forests and salmon habitat, restoration, stewardship, and education. The exchange of ideas and spread of knowledge among our diverse community has always been crucial for the success of our programs. For the past 15 years, one of the most important ways Sanctuary Forest has connected with the wider community has been through leading a series of interpretive hikes each summer. Our 2011 Hike Program is now well underway, and as always these hikes encourage appreciation and enjoyment of the remarkable ecosystems that surround us. But this year, our program focuses more than ever on educating hikers about the specific conservation and restoration techniques and projects that Sanctuary Forest and our partners are using to protect this landscape. (read more)
Whitethorn Junction: A Community Changes their Water Use for the River
November 16, 2010
Climate change, land use practices, and human use are causing extreme low flows in the Mattole Headwaters of southwestern Humboldt County. Nine out of the last eleven years have had the lowest flows measured at the Petrolia Station in its sixty years of operation. Flows in the summer of 2008 were the lowest ever recorded. Thousands of trapped salmonids have perished because the pools literally dry up, and today the Mattole coho are at risk of extinction. (read more)
The Mattole Flow Program After Five Years: Lessons Learned and Future Directions
April 15, 2009
Since 2004, Sanctuary Forest has been working on several fronts in an integrated approach toward the goal of restoring healthy summertime flows to the Mattole River headwaters. Here we offer an overview of where our work so far has brought us, and what we see as the essential next steps in implementing an effective long-range solution to the low-flow crisis. (read more)
Sustaining Instream Flows for Fish and People
September 2, 2008
It's early August and the Mattole River presents itself as a long grey ribbon of dry gravel running through a tunnel of green leafy banks as seen from a small wooden bridge near its headwaters on the Mendocino-Humboldt County line. (read more)
Sanctuary Forest
December 10, 2007
Sanctuary Forest's Mattole Flow Program continues to lead the way for our community and the land trust movement in the area of rural water conservation and protection of instream flows. The goal of the Mattole Flow Program is to maintain healthy instream flows for fish and people during the critical dry season. Since 2000 the Mattole watershed and many other north coast rivers have experienced a prolonged pattern of extreme low stream flows threatening the survival of endangered salmonids and the water supply of rural communities. (read more)
Sanctuary Forest: Sanctuary Forest Continues to Enhance Mattole Headwaters Area
November 15, 2006
As Sanctuary Forest moves into its (read more)
Restoration Lessons from Ancestor Creek
April 5, 2006
Watershed and fisheries restoration is part science, part art, part engineering, and part sociology. Ancestor Creek is just one of the more than twenty tributaries to the Mattole River headwaters where Sanctuary Forest and its partners are working to restore the habitat of endangered salmon as part of the Upper Mattole Watershed Rehabilitation Project. Many of the successes and lessons learned from this project are seen in Ancestor Creek. (read more)
Sanctuary Forest
December 1, 2005
During the mid-1980s, when Sanctuary Forest began, the most urgent threat to our forests was the rapid liquidation of the remaining old growth. Today, the emerging threat to the integrity of our forest and river ecosystems is forest fragmentation. As the threats to the health of our forest and river ecosystems change, so does the ways that Sanctuary Forest responds to them. (read more)
Sanctuary Forest
September 20, 2005
Water shortage has become a global problem, necessitating a change in how societies value and use water. Today's water scarcity challenges us to recognize the preciousness of water and learn how to steward this resource. (read more)
Sanctuary Forest
April 4, 2005
With annual rainfall at 65% of average, low summer flows in the Mattole River headwaters have become a critical issue impacting both fish and people. Developing and implementing solutions to the Mattole low flow is driving the work of Sanctuary Forest in our four program areas: Stewardship, Land Conservation, Collaboration, and Education. (read more)
Sanctuary Forest: On-Line In 2005
December 8, 2004
We're building a new internet portal to Sanctuary Forest. Coming in 2005, you'll find ongoing descriptions of our conservation projects, the latest hike information, news about our education programs, maps, and ways you can help protect the Mattole River watershed. Open a window that leads to a virtual trail into the Sanctuary Forest. We invite you to shout out to us via the web or enjoy a moment of reflection at www.sanctuaryforest.org. (read more)
Sanctuary Forest
April 28, 2000
In our shared conservation work, there seem to be three dimensions: Activism, Advocacy, and Education. These dimensions are defined by what role an organization plays in a particular campaign, issue, or cause. Involvement in the challenges of environmental protection requires the use of all three of these elements. If we take each one of these individually, we see that each can be extremely useful, relative to its timing. Activism, which takes an immediate approach, indeed will create an immediate effect. Advocacy, in written or spoken support of a desired effect, takes more time but may create longer-term results. Education links activism and advocacy together to create an immediate approach with lasting, long-term results. It is this third dimension that can give great depth and meaning to the important and essential work of protection and preservation of clean water and temperate rain forests. Many environmental organizations just assume that education will be one of the results of Activism and Advocacy, leaving experience to be the teacher. But, think what today would look like if we had spent as much time in our lives as educators as we did as activists and advocates. (read more)
Contact Information
Email: sanctuary@asis.com
Web Site: www.sanctuaryforest.org
Phone: (707) 986-1087 - Fax: (707) 986-1607
P.O. Box 166 Whitethorn, CA 95589
