Walk through a hushed, ancient redwood forest – home of the tallest and most massive beings on Earth – and you can’t help but feel a sense of awe and peace. Few life experiences match it.
Unfortunately, these forests face dire threats today. Ancient redwoods are still slated for cutting. Devastating government budget cuts leave inadequate personnel to safeguard redwood forests in state and national parks from wood poachers, polluters and vandals. Some of these lands are still recovering from years of unsustainable logging. Finally, we do not yet know the impact that the Earth’s changing climate will have on the health and survival of redwood forests. These challenges threaten to undo over 90 years of our conservation efforts.
Since 1918, Save the Redwoods League has led the effort to protect coast redwood and giant sequoia forests to benefit people and wildlife. Through the generosity of our members, we’ve protected hundreds of thousands of acres of irreplaceable redwood forest and restored logged land so that these forests of the future will harbor clear, fish-filled streams and diverse plants and animals. Along the way, you’ve also helped us teach new generations of caretakers about redwood forests and supported our research programs so that we can better understand how to protect these amazing places.
The Redwood Land Fund is the single most important tool Save the Redwoods League has to purchase, protect and restore threatened redwood forestland. Your generous support gives us the financial resources to compete in a complex and fast-paced real estate market, enabling us to buy, hold, restore, study and transfer properties to permanent stewards.
“Creating these sanctuaries for redwoods is a big reason we support the League,” said Greg Hind, philanthropist and businessman. “We appreciate that League has the overall grand scheme of things in mind as it queues up projects.”
Please make a generous gift today. Contributions to the Redwood Land Fund are tax-deductible, and can be made in cash or stock, through the mail, phone or our secure website, SaveTheRedwoods.org/RedwoodLandFund. Thank you for your kind support.
Redwoods and Climate Change Update
onToday, redwoods stand at a new crossroads of environmental change where rapid climatic changes and other factors threaten them in ways they have not experienced before in their long history on Earth. Our Redwoods and Climate Change Initiative research project will help us understand redwoods’ vulnerabilities to climatic changes so we can protect these forests in the future. Now Initiative scientists are studying 450 redwood saplings.
Future Stewards: Your Gifts Help Inspire Students to Care for Forest
onThanks to your support that enabled Save the Redwoods League to provide an education grant to our partner, The Forest Foundation (external link), the next generation of forest caretakers is taking root. Over two days, the Auburn-based foundation took 65 high school students from Humboldt County-area schools on a learning adventure called “Map It, Manage It, Sustain It.” Learn more about this program.
