Save the Lost Coast Redwoods
California's Lost Coast Redwood Forests are still largely privately owned. Save the Redwoods League has a shot at buying and preserving a chunk of them. From their donation page:
Donate today to protect the Lost Coast Redwoods
We have an opportunity to purchase the stunning 3,181-acre Lost Coast Redwoods property for $36.9 million and are seeking to raise a total of $43.4 million in support of its acquisition and stewardship during League ownership. The League is seeking contributions toward the purchase by December 31, 2021.Our generous friends, Ralph Eschenbach and Carol Joy Provan, are matching all gifts dollar for dollar through the end of the year. We invite you to join us in protecting this remarkable redwood forest forever.
The website is https://www.savetheredwoods.org/donate/
If they succeed, they will be given to the State or other suitable public owner once authorizations are in place. (They've done this a lot already) Seems like its worth a shot.
be well and have a good one
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Thanks for bringing to my attention.
Donation on the way. Traveling through a redwood grove makes you stop and give thanks for their presence!
Life is what you make it, so make it something worthwhile.
This ain't no dress rehearsal!
my pleasure
be well and have a good one
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
What a worthy cause to support,
and they've been working to restore redwood forests for over 100 years.
Wishing you and yours well.
Thanks Janis, and best to you as well
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
I make some small charitable contributions
to various animal rights and environmental orgs each December. This one will go on my list. I saw the redwoods of Muir Woods.
Redwoods should be saved. Always.
Thanks for bringing this charity to my(our)attention.
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Thanks otc, fully agreed on saving the reds
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
The State of California may not be able to save them
Remember this is the United States where profit is job #1.
Hopefully the save the Redwoods League realizes the huge danger these beautiful trees are in. My friend Edie used to work in a lumber yard and she was killed by a redwood tree. IN self defense.
RIP Edie . What a loss. She was a great wise and kick ass lady. Jobs are very hard to find behind the Redwood Curtain.
So far, they've acquired and eventually handed over an awful
awful lot of redwoods, and a lot of them are currently part of our State Parks System.
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
Honeydew-Petrolia Road and the "Lost Coast".
The spectacular road and the beach at the furthest westward point in the US is a spectacular drive and destination. The town of Shelter Cove, near there is kind of interesting. But there isnt much in the way or shopping or dining, not like Mendocino. I think there is one store and one cafe. Shelter Cove is very small and basically there is very little, besides an airstrip, there.
The road from Eureka Fernville area to Shelter Cove which then becomes the road back to 101 makes some amazing climbs and descents. It has to be one of the most spectacular drives in the US.
You'll probably see some amazing weather there too as you go up and down.
This is what they call the Lost Coast. And its a good name for it.
The seacoast at Cape Mendocino (not to be confused with the town of Mendocino which is maybe 100 miles south of the Cape is usually empty of people, youre likely to have the beach there all to yourself. The skies, and light and driftwood there are all spectacular also.
The beach is rugged and wind and wave swept like no other beach Ive ever been to.
The phylogenetic parent of
The phylogenetic parent of the California coast and giant redwoods, Metasequoia
makes a great gift.
If you germinate them from seeds and grow them for a while, their survival rate gets better and they grow fairly fast.., Metasequoia grows well in much of the rest of the US, Doing particularly well on the East Coast.
Its (history back in prehistoric ages, millions of years ago, possibly originating in now gone supercontinents or polar regions now bereft of any trees at all. except for them! (they are still there in fossilized form, 45 million years later)what an interesting read!
More here
They clean the air and convert lots of CO2 to O2
IN Asia they are commonly planted along roads and its often really beautiful..