Thanks to our members' support, in the 2008-9 fiscal year, we and our partners protected more than 1,100 acres of redwood forestlands valued at $8 million and transferred 831 acres to state or national parks, reserves and federal wilderness. Some of these accomplishments follow.
Our acquisition of about 160 acres expands wildlife habitat in the King Range National Conservation Area. The $370,500 acquisition was an inholding, or privately owned land inside the boundary of protected park lands. This purchase strengthens protection of the Mattole River watershed, home to rare or threatened animals, including coho salmon and two frog species. We acquired this property with support from the Preserving Wild California
program of the Resources Legacy Fund Foundation and the Wilderness Land Trust. The land was transferred to the US Bureau of Land Management for permanent protection.
With support from our members and the Preserving Wild California program of the Resources Legacy Fund Foundation, Save the Redwoods League purchased about 46 acres of redwoods surrounded by Humboldt Redwoods State Park (HRSP). This $650,000 acquisition protects the watershed and wildlife habitat in and around the old-growth redwood forest in the park’s historic Bolling Grove. We protected the ancient Bolling redwood grove in 1921, among the first of our more than 300 transactions that built the state park, which now includes more than 53,000 acres. HRSP contains the largest contiguous ancient redwood forest on Earth.
Read about other 2008-9 land acquisitions in our annual report.