Friends of the Gualala River and supporters protested and presented the Sonoma County Board of Supervisors with an 18 foot long copy of the 90,000-signature petition opposing the giant redwood forest destroying vineyard conversion projects,Preservation Ranch and Artesa Winery / Annapolis, at the supervisors’ public meeting on Tuesday, February 7, 2012. click to enlarge An 8 foot high walking “Chainsaw Wine” bottle …
Read More »Public presentation of a petition opposing destruction of redwood forests to the Sonoma County Board of Supervisors
Friends of the Gualala River protects the Gualala River watershed in Northern California and the species living within it.
Read More »CalPERS vows to push giant Preservation Ranch vineyard project – February, 2012, Santa Rosa Press Democrat
Friends of the Gualala River protects the Gualala River watershed in Northern California and the species living within it.
Read More »Coalition of conservation organizations asks California Public Employee Retirement System (CalPERS) to disinvest and withdraw “Preservation Ranch” vineyard deforestation project to spare the public financial and environmental harm
Friends of the Gualala River protects the Gualala River watershed in Northern California and the species living within it.
Read More »Moratorium would block some proposed Sonoma County vineyards – January, 2012, Santa Rosa Press Democrat
Friends of the Gualala River protects the Gualala River watershed in Northern California and the species living within it.
Read More »Coalition asks CalPERS & GI Partners to withdraw Preservation Ranch proposal
Friends of the Gualala River protects the Gualala River watershed in Northern California and the species living within it.
Read More »Vintage Capital – January, 2012, Financial Advisor magazine
Friends of the Gualala River protects the Gualala River watershed in Northern California and the species living within it.
Read More »Sonoma County freezes hillside vineyard conversions – January, 2012, Santa Rosa Press Democrat
Friends of the Gualala River protects the Gualala River watershed in Northern California and the species living within it.
Read More »Preservation Ranch
Preservation Ranch saved in record deal A giant redwood forest in Sonoma County that was on the verge of being divvied up and plowed over into a patchwork of vineyards has been preserved by a public-private partnership that engineered what is being touted as the largest land conservation deal in California history. June, 2013, SF Chronicle Sonoma County redwood forest …
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Friends of the Gualala River protects the Gualala River watershed in Northern California and the species living within it.
Read More »Is Premier Pacific Vineyards Dead?
Friends of the Gualala River protects the Gualala River watershed in Northern California and the species living within it.
Read More »Coalition asks CalPERS to withdraw Preservation Ranch proposal
Joseph Dear Chief Investment Officer, CalPERS George Diehr, Ph.D. Chair, CalPERS Investment Committee Vice President, CalPERS Board of Administration Janine Guillot Chief Operating Investment Officer, CalPERS CalPERS Board CalPERS Headquarters Lincoln Plaza North 400 Q Street Sacramento, CA 95811 SUBJECT: Preservation Ranch (former Premier Pacific Vineyards real estate investment portfolio): Reconsideration of investment prospects and alternatives To the Board of …
Read More »Huge forest-to-vine Project near Annapolis Threatened
Friends of the Gualala River protects the Gualala River watershed in Northern California and the species living within it.
Read More »Fermented Fallacies: Debunking the myths of Preservation Ranch forestland vineyard development
Friends of the Gualala River protects the Gualala River watershed in Northern California and the species living within it.
Read More »May We Suggest a Pinot With That Redwood Forest?
Friends of the Gualala River protects the Gualala River watershed in Northern California and the species living within it.
Read More »Stop Wineries from Destroying California Redwoods and Native American Heritage: Petition on Change.org
Friends of the Gualala River is organized to protect the Gualala River in Northern California.
Read More »Investigative reporter Will Parrish: “The North Coast Wine Industry: Draining Our Rivers Dry”
Thursday, March 3, 2011 7:00 p.m. Gualala Arts Center Investigative reporter Will Parrish will discuss his controversial recent series for the Anderson Valley Advertiser on the ecological toll of California’s wine industry, with a special emphasis on rapacious vineyard development in the Gualala River watershed. Summary In the past two decades, as the regional economies of the North Bay, North …
Read More »“Preservation” Ranch, radio interview with Chris Poehlmann & Peter Baye
Friends of the Gualala River protects the Gualala River watershed in Northern California and the species living within it.
Read More »Decimation not Preservation – letter to the editor, North Bay Bohemian
Friends of the Gualala River protects the Gualala River watershed in Northern California and the species living within it.
Read More »Question about “Preservation” Ranch, on KQED’s Forum, with Michael Krasny
Friends of the Gualala River protects the Gualala River watershed in Northern California and the species living within it.
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