Going Big to Protect Mailliard Ranch

On the expansive Mailliard Ranch, old-growth redwoods and 28 miles of fish-bearing streams will be protected from development, with help from people like you. Photo by John Birchard
On the expansive Mailliard Ranch, old-growth redwoods and 28 miles of fish-bearing streams will be protected from development, with help from people like you. Photo by John Birchard

The effort is under way to safeguard spectacular Mailliard Ranch, the largest remaining redwood property still in family hands in the entire coast range. Save the Redwoods League is working to ensure permanent protection of this 14,838-acre landscape so that its splendid ancient forest, rivers and streams, and vast array of plants and wildlife continue to survive and thrive.

Learn about the transformative Mailliard Ranch project


Discover Your SF Bay Area Parks

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You can discover the San Francisco Bay Area’s more than 1 million acres of parks by visiting OutdoorVoice.org. On this new site, you’ll also learn about volunteering, open space campaigns, issues affecting parks, job opportunities, new trails and land acquisitions. Save the Redwoods League is a member of Outdoor Voice, regional coalition of organizations that create and take care of parks to protect the Bay Area’s world-famous natural wonders, including redwood forests.

Westfall Ranch: Enhancing the Ancient Headwaters Forest

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In the scenic redwoods country near Eureka, California, lies Headwaters Forest Reserve. You might remember Headwaters as the subject of a very contentious, very public, decade-long struggle in the 1990s to protect ancient redwoods from continued logging. When you walk among its massive, moss-draped giants, it’s easy to see why so many people fought so hard for their preservation.