Now it's up to you.
Now it's up to you. (read more)


DIGGIN' IN: The Gienger Report
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Center for Environmental Economic Development
CEED (the Center for Environmental Economic Development) will be celebrating its 15th anniversary this coming year, and EPIC just celebrated its 30th year. CEED is still the "new kid on the block," although it is coming of age. The two organizations definitely share some history though..." (read more)


Southern Humboldt Response to Global Warming
Southern Humboldt Response to Global Warming is pursuing a low-key and low-cost communications campaign to promote local responsibility on the part of organizations and individuals for reduction of carbon footprints through changes in behavior and infrastructure. The response has been gratifying. It is our impression that many people are ready to make changes. Our role has been to remind people that changes now are necessary, and to help people to see what immediate changes they can take charge of. (read more)


Cereus Fund: Celebrates Nine Years of Empowering Community Action
Over the past nine years, the Cereus Fund of the Trees Foundation has helped enable restoration and preservation throughout California's North Coast. In total, the Cereus Fund, Trees Foundation's largest and longest-running donor-advised grantor, has contributed hundreds of thousands of dollars to grassroots environmental projects throughout the redwood region. In this issue we highlight the Cereus Fund grants for 2007. Dozens of community-based groups, and well over one hundred projects have benefited from the vision and commitment of the Cereus Fund over nearly a decade of giving. With a focus on grassroots solutions and sustainable communities, the Cereus Fund has empowered a wide range of strategies and tactics as part of a vision of holistic recovery for the globally unique north coast. (read more)


DIGGIN' IN: The Gienger Report
As I write this we're in the middle of July. Everything has been really dry. Lightning fires around the Klamath, the Sierras, and Southern California. CDF, know known as CalFire, reported over 170 fires started from a spate of lightning fires last week. And then--lo' and behold--the North Coast was blessed with, in many places, about an inch of real rain overnight between July 17th & 18th. A beautiful respite. Supposed to be back to hot and dry next week. I hear that the Southern Humboldt Fire Plan is being pushed to completion. Stream and watershed restoration work, as well as many fuel hazard reduction projects, are in full swing. (read more)


Essential Dry Season Water Storage
You can help keep the rivers flowing in the dry season, aiding salmon, gardens, and our economy, by storing enough water during the rainy season for the dry months ahead. (read more)


Endow Your Conservation Vision: Donor-Advised Program Links You To Community Action
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)


Herbicides in the State Park
The California State Parks department and the County of Humboldt are coming under increasing scrutiny for a proposal to spray herbicides on the south fork and main stem of the Eel River to eradicate purple loosestrife, a highly invasive weed that can change ecosystem dynamics and is very difficult to eradicate. The herbicide that Parks and the county plan to use is called imazapyr. (read more)


Will Old Growth be Logged for Cattle Trucks?
A plan by the cattle industry and CalTrans to widen Route 101 through Richardson Grove State Park so it can accommodate large cattle-hauling trucks has raised alarm among citizens and environmental protection groups, who want to see the trees in the Park protected. (read more)


Bay Area Coalition for Headwaters
After focusing a bit more locally the past couple months, other plans that we've been laying foundation for at Bay Area Coalition for Headwaters (BACH) are presently coming to fruition. We are embarking on an exciting collaboration with Global Exchange in San Francisco to launch "Reality Tours" of the North Coast, similar in political nature to Global Exchange's international (read more)


Friends of Small Places
The founding members of Friends of Small Places have been fighting irresponsible gravel miners and gravel processing along the Van Duzen and Mad rivers. We became a sponsored project of the Trees Foundation in October 2006--and thus began the tribulations and triumphs associated with a brand-new grassroots environmental group. (read more)


Human Nature
The environmentally focused musical/acting team Human Nature is going through an intense period of rest. This includes reconsideration and regrouping in preparation for another practical, Quixotic bout with the forces that are bringing us global warming. The company is currently working on a Christmas-season show entitled A Solstice Song. It promises to reinvigorate the Scrooge parable with vivid contemporary relevance, environmentally and socially. (read more)


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


The Unique Potential for EcoCultural Recovery
California's North Coast is a global treasure at the southern extreme of the world's largest coastal temperate rainforest. Coastal temperate rainforest once covered less than 1% of the earth, now only half of that remains. The ecological devastation of the past 150 years is threatening the survival of this delicate web of life. (read more)