Friends of Gualala River Protecting the Gualala River watershed and the species living within it

Our local watershed protection organization: Friends of Gualala River

by Tempra Board Soundings, Summer, 2019 © copyright 2019, The Sea Ranch Association reprinted with p…
Gualala River park idea garners 1,100 signatures

and 3,000 signatures oppose third Dogwood logging plan by W. W. Keller news@mendonoma.com May 31, 20…
Ladies’ Day Steelhead – December, 1915

This photo is typical of how it was, back in the day when fishermen could walk across the bac…
Dogwood floodplain logging plan, comments by Dr. Peter Baye, May 2019

Comments by Dr. Peter Baye (coastal ecologist, botanist) on the latest version of the “Dogwood…
Opponents of logging plan along Gualala River dream of expanding park

by Mary Callahan, The Press Democrat, April 25, 2019 [excerpt:] Provoked by a new round of scrutiny …
Vision for a Gualala River Park

Spanning from bridge to bridge along a wild and scenic river A unique and majestic coastal redwood p…
Importance of the Gualala River Floodplain: Presentation by Dr. Peter Baye

Presented at Friends of Gualala River’s Public Forum on March 5, 2019. Download: Downlo…
Native Trees and Forests of the Gualala River Watershed

If we have ever taken a walk anywhere in our area and come back home without being able to name or d…
Sonoma County Superior Court rules in favor of Friends of Gualala River’s second lawsuit over the “Dogwood” floodplain timber harvest plan

Media Release October 19, 2018 Sonoma County Superior Court once again has ruled in favor of Friends…
We Speak for the River

How a Northern California community halted a plan to log old coast redwood trees in the Gualala Rive…

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Floodplain Logging

Our local watershed protection organization: Friends of Gualala River

July 12, 2019

by Tempra Board Soundings, Summer, 2019 © copyright 2019, The Sea Ranch Association reprinted with permission Friends of Gualala River (FoGR) has been in the news lately for its efforts to compel state agencies to protect sensitive Gualala River watershed habitat from the latest in a series of Timber Harvest Plans …
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Gualala River park idea garners 1,100 signatures

June 5, 2019
Dogwood floodplain logging plan, comments by Dr. Peter Baye, May 2019

May 3, 2019

Preservation Ranch

Under California cap-and-trade program, North Coast forests turn carbon uptake into cash

January 3, 2016

by Guy Kovner, The Press Democrat, January 3, 2016 [excerpt:] They say money doesn’t grow on trees, but a nearly 75,000-acre swath of redwood and fir forests blanketing the wildlands of Sonoma and Mendocino counties is generating millions of dollars as it contributes to California’s ambitious campaign to curb greenhouse …
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Preservation Ranch saved in record deal – June, 2013, San Francisco Chronicle

June 14, 2013
Sonoma Deal Aims to Combine Logging and Preservation

June 4, 2013
Sonoma County redwood forest spared from conversion into vineyards

June 4, 2013