Impacts of the Government Shutdown on Redwood Forests, National Parks, and Park Staff
onA statement from Steve Mietz, president and CEO of Save the Redwoods League
Steve Mietz on why it’s crucial to think big and go bold
onI come to the League after a long career with the National Park Service that took me across the American West and showed me the need for courageous action in the face of existential threats to our forests, rivers, and critters. For these and many other reasons, joining Save the Redwoods League as president and CEO has felt like coming home. Now more than ever, it’s essential to be bold and brave, to inspire through action, to show others how healing the planet can heal society and ourselves.
We are all in this together
onIt is clear that when it comes to protecting and healing what we love most, we are all in this together. This issue of Redwoods follows these threads of collaboration and commitment as they weave through some of our most exciting and urgent projects. We take you to Sonoma Coast Redwoods, a dramatic stretch of California coastline whose preservation depends on a collective effort by the League, our partners, and our full community of supporters. We meet dedicated scientists working to unravel the complex relationship between redwoods and fog — and the growing impacts of climate change. And we explore how the League’s Redwood Rides program, working in partnership with local organizations, is helping to connect underrepresented communities with nature.
President’s letter
onWe explore an exciting vision for a groundbreaking conservation model and the success of another landmark partnership, the Giant Sequoia Lands Coalition.
President’s Letter
onI hope this issue of Redwoods gives you that “walk in the redwoods” excitement. That our suggestions for redwoods adventures in Mendocino stir your wanderlust. That learning how the League is transforming a former sawmill site into a stunning new gateway to Redwood State and National Parks inspires you with the restorability of even our most impacted landscapes. That you feel hope and gratitude, reading about the generosity of the Esselen Tribe in sharing their traditional ecological wisdom. That you nod in understanding as our Community Voices writer describes how life-saving time in nature can be.
President’s letter: If we make the right choices and investments today, the redwoods can help save us
onWhen I walk in places like Humboldt Redwoods State Park and the League’s Alder Creek property, I see magnificent, towering coast redwoods and giant sequoias that tell a story of hope and resilience. We tell that story in this edition of Redwoods, spotlighting what we’ve learned from the groundbreaking Redwoods and Climate Change Initiative launched in 2009. The more we learn about the redwood and giant sequoia forests, the clearer it is how significant their role could be in the climate-change solution. That is, if we act quickly and make the right investments now.
President’s letter
onA letter from Save the Redwoods League president and CEO Sam Hodder in the Resilient Future Edition of Redwoods magazine, published Winter 2022.
Two historic projects
onWe celebrate the success of the Forever Forest Campaign and historic projects on the Lost Coast that restored Indigenous guardianship to Tcih-Léh-Dûñ and protected the spectacular Lost Coast Redwoods.
Re-emergence and hope
onThe theme for this edition of Redwoods is Returning. We were hopeful that by now we’d be returning to some form of normalcy. We knew that would likely be a new normal, with the challenges we faced embedded in our hearts.
A time of regrowth and renewal
onThe theme for this edition of Redwoods is Renewal. We dive into the 30 by 30 movement to protect 30% of Earth by 2030. Forest and human well-being can progress in tandem.
Hope and healing amid ongoing crises
onIn this edition, we strive to depict a more holistic story of redwoods culture—one in which we all stand together to protect and restore these forests to which we are connected.
Advancing our mission during a global crisis
onAccording to California’s stay-home order, our staff has been working remotely, pursuing our vision that’s built on a foundation of hope and healing.