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Students Protecting the Coast

ACORN Partners in Education’s Students Protecting the Coast program with Pacific Community Charter S…
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…
Gualala River in full flood: South Fork & river mouth

Below are a few photos that show some unusual flood features at the river mouth…. not j…
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

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

May 3, 2019

Comments by Dr. Peter Baye (coastal ecologist, botanist) on the latest version of the “Dogwood” floodplain logging plan (THP 1-15-042-SON): Download & read the entire letter (8 pages, 310 KB) The entire letter is well worth reading, but here’s a short excerpt (not a summary) to whet your appetite: …
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Opponents of logging plan along Gualala River dream of expanding park

April 26, 2019
Dogwood floodplain logging plan reopened for public comment

April 12, 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