However, the work to protect redwood forests is only just beginning. What the League has protected is not truly saved. The primeval forests today resemble islands of disconnected old-growth stands that are pinched at the edges by clearcuts, development, and agriculture. They depend on streams choked by sediment. Now, at the start of the League’s second chapter—the organization is striving to heal the young redwood forests that surround and sustain the protected ancient groves and the waters that flow through and from them. The League has a vision to set in motion the regeneration of the redwood forest across the state and restore resilience back into California’s most iconic ecosystem. And we will endeavor to inspire future generations to continue this critical work all the while renewing our human connection to the natural world through these treasured redwood parklands.
Photo: CalTrout North Coast Program Director, Darren Mierau, on Prairie Creek in Prairie Creek Redwoods State Park by Mike Wier.
Save the Redwoods League envisions vibrant redwood forests of the scale and grandeur that once graced the California coast and the Sierra Nevada, protected forever, restored to grow old again, and connected to people through a network of magnificent parks and protected areas that inspire all of us with the beauty and power of nature.