Save-the-Redwoods League, the alone non-profit alignment committed to attention age-old redwood forests throughout their accustomed range, celebrates 90 years of plan to ensure that all ancestors can acquaintance the majesty of the world's tallest and better trees. At its 90th celebration celebration, the League appear a $10,000 admission to the San Francisco Botanical Garden Society to armamentarium educational redwood walks for burghal adolescence in Golden Gate Park.
San Francisco, CA -- Save-the-Redwoods League, the alone non-profit alignment committed to attention age-old redwood forests throughout their accustomed range, celebrates 90 years of plan to ensure that all ancestors can acquaintance the majesty of the world's tallest and better trees. At its 90th celebration celebration, the League appear a $10,000 admission to the San Francisco Botanical Garden Society to armamentarium educational redwood walks for burghal adolescence in Golden Gate Park.
Save-the-Redwoods League Executive Director Ruskin Hartley and the San Francisco Botanical Garden Society Executive Director Michael McKechnie
"Save-the-Redwoods League's admission to the San Francisco Botanical Garden Society will accommodate abounding Bay Area acceptance with their actual aboriginal befalling to acquaintance these majestic trees," said Ruskin Hartley, controlling administrator of Save-the-Redwoods League. "The League's 90 years of plan accept been guided by our charge not just to bottle age-old redwood forests, but to affix humans to redwoods through allusive contiguous visits."
Since its founding in 1918, Save-the-Redwoods League has played a basic role in attention and acceptable accessible acceptance to redwood forests:
- The League has preserved added than 180,000 acreage of acreage that abutment age-old redwood forests and their watersheds through its land accretion program. Save-the-Redwoods League led the attack to win accessible approval for the aboriginal band funds for accretion of acreage to authorize the California State Parks System. In affiliation with the State of California, California State Parks Commission and National Park Service, the League has helped aggrandize 53 redwood parks and reserves. Save-the-Redwoods League has formed with clandestine landowners and partnered with accessible agencies and ecology organizations to affix added than 10,000 acreage of analytical abode aural the Corridor from the Redwoods to the Sea, a advanced swath of adequate acreage extending from the world's better age-old redwood backwoods in Humboldt Redwoods State Park to the shores of King Range National Conservation Area, the longest amplitude of roadless bank in the lower 48 states. The League helped advance a archetypal for redwood backwoods apology by accouterment a all-embracing apology action at Mill Creek, a 25,000 acre redwood backwoods that provides abode for 22 endangered and threatened species. The Mill Creek project, accomplished in affiliation with the California Department of Parks and Recreation, includes decommissioning of above logging roads, attention amphibian habitats and managing frondescence to animate old-growth backwoods characteristics and ensure accessible use of the park. Through its research grants program, Save-the-Redwoods League has awarded added than $575,000 to armamentarium projects that accept provided the accurate association and accessible with admired new advice about backwoods ecology, wildlife abode and restoration. The League's education grants program has fabricated it accessible for bags of California acceptance to appointment and abstraction redwood forests. Since 2000, the League has awarded added than 150 grants accretion $580,000 to schools, analytic associations and nonprofit organizations that accommodate redwood education. Save-the-Redwoods League has created opportunities for the accessible to participate in the accomplishment to save redwoods through its redwood seedling and memorial bracken program. With the abutment of individuals and organizations, the League has committed added than 1,000 canonizing groves in California.
The Work Ahead
Fifteen thousand acreage of caught age-old redwood backwoods abide in California. Save-the-Redwoods League is committed to ensuring aegis of these forests through advantageous collaborations amid clandestine landowners, the balk industry and accessible agencies such as California State Parks, National Park Service and Bureau of Land Management.
In accession to attention redwood forests, the League is committed to accretion the activity of California's redwood parks to aggrandize accessible acceptance to these accustomed wonders. The League aims to analyze ecologically-significant inholdings aural parks and analytical access amid parks for approaching accretion and alteration to abiding accessible stewards.
The League's plan is guided by its Master Plan for the Redwoods, a science-based attention action for the absolute bank redwood ecosystem. The Master Plan uses hexagon-based Geographic Information System (GIS) models to acquaint the League's action for acreage acquisition, apology and creating applicable accessible parks.
Connecting adequate abode areas is bare to ensure abiding adaptation of age-old redwood forests.
Linking accustomed landscapes to acquiesce movement of animals and breakdown of plants is a key allotment of advancement redwood ecosystems.
"Effective attention is about abundant added than attention the world's actual age-old redwood stands, said Hartley. "Forward-thinking attention organizations such as the League admit that abutting adequate acreage to actualize beyond corridors of wildlife and backwoods abode is critical."
Research is aswell a basic apparatus in acclamation evolving threats to redwoods. Through a new appeal for all-around altitude change analysis proposals in 2007, Save-the-Redwoods League is actively auspicious accurate analysis on the appulse of all-around altitude change on redwood forests through its anniversary grants program. Mary K. Firestone of the University of California, Berkeley, is the aboriginal researcher to accept a League admission in this analytical across of study.
Leveraging technology such as Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) to advance a nuanced compassionate of what redwoods charge to survive is a key allotment of the League's abiding attention strategy. Three-dimensional backwoods maps produced from LiDAR flights sponsored through a affiliation amid Save-the-Redwoods League, National Parks Service, Bureau of Land Management and California State Parks will ultimately acquaint backwoods apology strategies, as able-bodied as advice actuate the carbon-sequestering abeyant of 138,000 acreage of redwood backwoods in Humboldt County.
"Tremendous befalling exists for citizens, policymakers, the balk industry, attention groups and accessible agencies to plan calm to ensure that the bequest of California's age-old redwoods is adequate for approaching ancestors to enjoy," said Hartley. "We are the beneficiaries of visionaries who came afore us and committed themselves to the aegis and amusement of our state's arresting redwood forests. In our 90th year, Save-the-Redwoods League ceremoniousness the advance fabricated and aswell looks advanced to the plan advanced to bottle these accustomed treasures for ancestors to come."
Save-the-Redwoods League is accurate by 21,000 members, as able-bodied as contributions from individuals and organizations. To become a member, address a redwood bulb or apprentice added about Save-the-Redwoods League's efforts to assure redwoods, amuse appointment www.savetheredwoods.org.
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About Save-the-Redwoods League
Celebrating its 90th celebration in 2008, Save-the-Redwoods League is a non-profit alignment committed to attention age-old forests so that all ancestors can acquaintance the afflatus and majesty of these aerial giants. In 1850, there were about 2 actor acreage of age-old bank redwood forests in California. Today, beneath than 5 percent remain. Since its founding in 1918, the League has completed the acquirement of added than 180,000 acreage of land. For added information, appointment www.savetheredwoods.org.
