Pepperwood Foundation

Environmental education and outreach: pepperwood's 3,200 acre nature preserve serves over 10,000 visitors annually via a comprehensive environmental education program for adults, youth, and families in partnership with local school districts and the santa rosa junior college. We ignite a passion for conservation at every educational level, teach our citizens how to better steward our wild lands, and inspire an increasingly diverse population to join the professional conservation community. We strengthen the eco literacy of our community as a foundation for conservation action. In 2016, our elementary education program was awarded certification as an official sonoma county "upstream investments" portfolio selection and we tripled the number of conservation science internships for santa rosa junior college students.