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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Artesa Sonoma – Clear cutting old growth redwood trees or destroying redwood forest?
Friends of the Gualala River is organized to protect the Gualala River in Northern California.
Read More »Artesa’s controversial timber-to-vineyard plan nears approval
Friends of the Gualala River protects the Gualala River watershed in Northern California and the species living within it.
Read More »Stop Clear-cutting Redwoods to Plant Vineyards: Petition on Change.org
Friends of the Gualala River is organized to protect the Gualala River in Northern California.
Read More »Interview with Friends of the Gualala River – February, 2012, KGUA
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 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 …
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 »Biggest forest-to-vineyard conversion in California’s history – December, 2011, KPFA
Friends of the Gualala River protects the Gualala River watershed in Northern California and the species living within it.
Read More »2011 fundraising letter
December, 2011 Dear Friends, FoGR (Friends of the Gualala River) hit the media jackpot in 2011 by landing coverage of our local environmental issues in The LA Times, The New York Times, 250 outlets of The Associated Press, The Washington Post, The Huffington Post, The Press Democrat, and the list goes on! Go to our website, www.GualalaRiver.org, to read how …
Read More »Pidele a Codorníu que no destruya los bosques para producir sus vinos: Petition on Actuable.es
Friends of the Gualala River is organized to protect the Gualala River in Northern California.
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Won’t back down – Friends of Gualala River continue protection efforts
by Tempra BoardThe Sea Ranch Soundings • Summer 2021 © copyright 2021, The Sea Ranch Associationreprinted with permission Friends of Gualala River (FoGR), our area’s grassroots watershed protection non-profit, continues its hard work defending the Gualala River from the threat of floodplain logging. On May 20, FoGR filed a motion for …
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Protecting Endangered Species:
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Gualala River logging project clears hurdle in state court as federal case ramps up
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Under California cap-and-trade program, North Coast forests turn carbon uptake into cash
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
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Sonoma Deal Aims to Combine Logging and Preservation
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Sonoma County redwood forest spared from conversion into vineyards