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Artesa’s Hired Gun

Friends of the Gualala River protects the Gualala River watershed in Northern California and the species living within it.

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Artesa (“Fairfax”) vineyard conversion

The Proposed Artesa Vineyard

Artesa-Sonoma Vineyard Conversion Sonoma County, California Destruction of Coastal Redwood Forest and Pomo Heritage Redwoods for Red Wine Eight minute video produced for the America Tonight news broadcast on Al Jazeera America. Court Rejects Plan to Clearcut Redwoods for Vineyard Sonoma County Superior Court rules that the environmental impact report for Artesa’s forest-to-vineyard conversion project violates the requirements of the …

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Stop Wineries from Destroying Redwoods

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 …

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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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