SAVE THE REDWOODS LEAGUE

Restore - we restore ecosystems throughout california's redwood ranges, leveraging the best available science to accelerate healing and ensure the redwood forests thrive into the future. Redwoods rising, our partnership with california state parks and the national park service, is restoring 70,000 acres of previously logged forest within redwood national and state parks. In 2023 we completed 577 acres of forestry treatments, removed 6 miles of old logging roads, and collected data on 24 different stream sites. Additionally, the redwoods rising apprentice program provided forestry experience and professional skills building to 11 local college students. In the sierra nevada, we reaffirmed our commitment to the giant sequoias' survival in an era of extreme wildfire. We actively participated in the giant sequoia lands coalition and conducted post-fire restoration and fire resiliency work in three sequoia groves in 2023, including monitoring research plots to assess the effectiveness of post-fire treatments. We also planned fire resilience and restoration work in big basin redwoods, ao nuevo, and butano state parks in the santa cruz mountains. Biomass revenue - save the redwoods league conducts forest restoration and recovery work using time-tested forest management techniques to reduce the severity of catastrophic fires and restore more natural conditions to coast redwood and giant sequoia forests after decades of commercial logging and fire suppression. The approach relies on proven strategies guided by professional foresters, firefighters, indigenous tribes, and scientists. Restoration includes removing excess vegetation from forests by felling some hazard, infested, or diseased trees; thinning dense, overgrown stands of trees and underbrush; and safely conducting controlled burns led by tribes and forestry professionals. Rather than leaving biomass generated from restoration activities in the forest, which would increase fire risk, some is processed and sold locally for wood, mulch, or energy production, and generated biomass revenue is used to partially offset the much higher costs of the operations and increase program sustainability. In addition, the forest restoration programs bring demonstrated socioeconomic benefits to disadvantaged communities in northern california.