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You can help remove this pavement to return this site to the surrounding forest. Photo by Paolo Vescia

Prairie Creek Scenic Corridor

by Save the Redwoods League on September 8, 2017

We made significant steps forward in our 90-year history of protecting lands in the Prairie Creek Scenic Corridor, a patchwork of private property surrounded by parks. The League transferred two properties to Redwood National Park. The 5.9-acre Berry Glen Trail Connection secures crucial wildlife habitat and important trail connections to the park’s two largest ancient redwood groves. The other property, a 2.5-acre parcel, attracts elk herds and the tourists who love to watch them.

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Westfall Ranch

by Save the Redwoods League on June 14, 2016

Thanks to our donors’ generous gifts, Save the Redwoods League has forever protected the scenic 77-acre Westfall Ranch and buffered the famous Headwaters Forest Reserve just south of Eureka, California.

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Adventures in GPS-ing a Stream

by Jessica Inwood on October 24, 2013

It is a very common experience to pick up a map I’ve made in GIS (Geographic Information Systems, a software mapping program) and realize that there is no way the stream shown on my map is actually where the stream flows on … Continued

Salmon Monitoring in Redwood Creek

by Deborah Zierten on August 7, 2013

Each year, the League funds individual research projects that help advance our knowledge of the biology, ecology, and conservation of coast redwood and giant sequoia forests. In 2008, a grant was awarded to Walter Duffy and Michael Sparkman of Humboldt … Continued

Juvenile Chinook salmon from a Redwood Creek trap. Photo by M. Sparkman

Salmon Numbers Fall, But Restoration Offers Hope

by Save the Redwoods League on July 28, 2008

Virtually all redwood forests have (or once had) streams in which salmon run and spawn. But after 150 years of damming, water diversion, logging and development, most of these fish species face extinction. Learn more about this research.

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Juvenile coho salmon. Photo by Roger Tabor, USFWS

Winter habitat crucial for coho salmon, spring for Chinook

by Save the Redwoods League on July 28, 2004

The coho salmon population in Del Norte County’s Mill Creek depends heavily on the quantity and quality of winter habitat for survival, according to a study by The Rowdy Creek Fish Hatchery and a team of fisheries biologists. Learn more about this research.

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