Help Keep California State Parks Open!

There is still time to help stop the proposed closures of 48 treasured California State Parks, many of which contain redwoods that Save-the-Redwoods League members like you have helped to protect. Faced with a deficit exceeding $14 billion, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger proposed a budget that would cut allocations by 10 percent in all departments, including California State Parks. The Governor will release a revised budget proposal on May 15, 2008. The Senate and the Assembly then must pass a budget bill with a two-thirds vote, and send it to the Governor for his signature. Legislators are discussing the budget, and they need to hear from you now. Send a message to your elected officials, encouraging them to keep the parks open. Ask your friends to do the same by forwarding this e-mail.

1,700 More Acres Protected

From January through April 2008, the League completed seven land projects, totaling more than 1,700 acres, to protect magnificent coast redwoods. Read more about these California projects in the upcoming Fall Bulletin. Thanks to generous members like you, the League has protected more than 180,000 acres and helped develop 53 redwood parks and reserves that capture the diversity of the redwood forest since 1918.

Volunteer to appear in future Save-the-Redwoods League materials!

Save-the-Redwoods League needs volunteers to participate in professional photo shoots featuring people enjoying the redwood forest experience. We will use the photos in our communications, including our Web site and brochures. In return, Save-the-Redwoods League will provide breakfast and a picnic lunch for volunteers. It will be a great chance to commune with your fellow enthusiasts and enjoy the forest.

Dates: Sunday, June 1; Monday, June 2, and Tuesday, June 3, 2008
Times: 7 a.m. to 8 p.m.
Place: Muir Woods National Monument, Mill Valley, CA 94941-2696.

Please e-mail Jennifer Benito for further information.

90th Anniversary Celebration Features Grant

Save-the-Redwoods League marked its 90th anniversary with an April 8 celebration during which we granted $10,000 to the San Francisco Botanical Garden Society. The League’s Redwood Education Grants Program awarded the grant to the San Francisco Botanical Garden Society, allowing 2,500 children, most from underserved San Francisco neighborhoods, to take guided walks in the Garden’s Redwood Grove.

See Redwood Art, Live Animals

Check out the redwood art and animals in Eureka, Calif., Saturday, June 7, 2008, at The Ink People Center for the Arts, which will host a show of fish prints, spirit masks, and interpretive wildlife posters made by youth. The artwork is produced through Ink People's Old Growth Redwoods Are Alive! Program, made possible in part by the League's Education Grants Program. Meet live reptiles, amphibians, and birds of the old-growth redwoods. Talk with ecologists and learn how you are part of the web of life. 6 to 9 p.m., 411 Twelfth Street, Eureka, (707) 442-8413.

2008 Education Grants Now Available

Do you know a favorite teacher, local park interpreter, or environmental educator who might benefit from some much-needed funding? Save-the-Redwoods League has just posted the application materials for our Education Grants program on our Web site. Click here for more information or contact Susan Ingersoll, Education Program Manager.

Forward this e-mail to anyone who might be interested.

Featured Favorite Redwood Memory

We stopped the car and stepped into an awesome silence. We were enveloped in stillness, no longer hearing our feet on the forest floor. We were surrounded in peace.

— Anne
Member since 2005