Friends of the Gualala River protects the Gualala River watershed in Northern California and the species living within it.
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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 »Conservation easement will protect 14,000 acres of Gualala River Forest
The Wildlife Conservation Board (WCB) approved the proposed $19M conservation easement for the Gualala River Forest at its meeting on September 13, 2011 in Sacramento. The easement will be held by The Conservation Fund, which already holds similar easements protecting large parcels in the nearby Garcia River, Big River & Salmon Creek watersheds and the Usal Redwood Forest. click to …
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 »Water Use by Vineyards Is Challenged
Friends of the Gualala River protects the Gualala River watershed in Northern California and the species living within it.
Read More »A tale of grape versus redwood – LA Times
Friends of the Gualala River protects the Gualala River watershed in Northern California and the species living within it.
Read More »Gualala River Forest Conservation Easement: Letter for August, 2011
Conservation easement to protect 14,000 acres of Gualala River Forest The Wildlife Conservation Board (WCB) has scheduled consideration of the proposed $19M conservation easement for the Gualala River Forest for its meeting on Tuesday, September 13, 2011 in Sacramento. The easements will be held by The Conservation Fund, which already holds similar easements protecting large parcels in the nearby Garcia …
Read More »People Who Belong To The Land – July, 2011, Anderson Valley Advertiser
Friends of the Gualala River protects the Gualala River watershed in Northern California and the species living within it.
Read More »Forest lands eyed for vineyards – July, 2011, 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 »Study: Global warming threatens North Coast vineyards – July, 2011, 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 »Gualala River – Retaining wall
(CDP 55-2006) Proposed construction of a new 285-foot long concrete block retaining wall behind the Surf Supermarket parking lot in downtown Gualala, to connect to an old 105 foot long retaining wall behind the Surf Supermarket itself. May, 2010 updateThe old retaining wall behind the Supermarket failed in 2006, allowing sediment and debris to flow into the Gualala River estuary …
Read More »“The Mendonoma Coast’s Second Spanish Invasion” – June, 2011, Anderson Valley Advertiser
Friends of the Gualala River protects the Gualala River watershed in Northern California and the species living within it.
Read More »“Plan to cut forest for vineyards faces opposition” – Associated Press
Friends of the Gualala River protects the Gualala River watershed in Northern California and the species living within it.
Read More »‘Stop-work’ order on Guerneville-area timber conversion
Friends of the Gualala River protects the Gualala River watershed in Northern California and the species living within it.
Read More »Tribe buys coastal forest in Humboldt County
[excerpt:] Klamath, CA — A large land acquisition project was completed today on California’s Redwood Coast to conserve habitat, restore water quality and reestablish indigenous territory along the lower Klamath River. The Yurok Tribe, working with the nonprofit Western Rivers Conservancy, completed purchase of 22,237 acres from Green Diamond Resource Company in Humboldt County. The land, part of the Yurok’s …
Read More »Coalition asks Spanish corporation to withdraw proposal to clear-cut coastal redwood forest for vineyards
Friends of the Gualala River protects the Gualala River watershed in Northern California and the species living within it.
Read More »Blessing of the Gualala River
Eight Tibetan Buddhist monks from the Gaden Shartse Monastery in southern India returned to our coastal communities for the fourth time in May, 2011. The monks are from one of three Tibetan refugee resettlement communities which were set up in India to accept refugees who were fleeing Tibet after the Chinese invasion of 1959, where over one million Tibetans were …
Read More »Artesa (“Fairfax”) vineyard conversion: Recirculated Partial Draft Environmental Impact Report
Friends of the Gualala River protects the Gualala River watershed in Northern California and the species living within it.
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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