Founded in 1991, this marks Trees Foundation's 20th year serving grassroots environmental groups throughout the redwood region. We thought we would take this opportunity to look back at the last two decades of progress and challenges in the forest, rivers, and communities of the region.
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Trees Foundation came of age during the so called "Timber Wars". As Karen Pickett from Bay Area Coalition for Headwaters recounts, the rapacious logging practices of Pacific Lumber that were liquidating old-growth redwood brought people together in new and powerful ways. As she says "It was a grand experiment that helped form the landscape of grassroots earth activism on California's north coast today."
But the battle to protect ancient forest and endangered species ranged much wider than just the redwood region. Stretching from the north coast of California all the way to Washington, the temperate forests managed by the U.S. Forest Service were subjected to equally devastating old-growth logging. The struggle to end the "timber first" mentality of the Forest Service, and the evolution of the Northwest Forest Plan is chronicled by George Sexton of Klamath-Siskiyou Wildlands Center.
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The next 20 years begins......
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TOC for Forest & River News, Winter 2011