who we are
Only about five percent of the old-growth redwood forest is still standing, and most of the rest was logged, much of it more than once. Redwood Forest Foundation takes on that land and rebuilds it. We thin crowded young stands, repair streams, remove old logging roads and bring good fire back, and then we manage the land as a working forest that supports the people around it. Our showcase is the 50,000-acre Usal Redwood Forest on California’s Lost Coast.Our mission. We acquire devastated redwood forest land, rebuild it, and manage it as healthy working forest.Our vision. We want to bring our model to as much devastated forest land in the redwood region as we can, rebuilding redwood forest that adds healthy forest back to the planet and holds as much carbon as it possibly can.Growing forest takes carbon out of the air and stores it in wood, and redwoods are very good at it. Research at Cal Poly Humboldt has found that old-growth coast redwood forests store more carbon per acre than any other kind of forest studied, and that younger redwood forests take it up quickly as they grow. The Usal Redwood Forest is where we developed our model, and the aim is to bring it to every piece of devastated forest land we can acquire or take into our care.
