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Letter from the
Executive Director
A
s we work from day to day on the multitude of
projects like those you will read about in this
bulletin, we think often with gratitude of the
support from you, our members, that is critical for our
successes. With far less frequency, we pause to consider
how saving the redwoods fits into actions taken on a
global scale to protect places of special significance that
inspires and sustains the world’s peoples.
In early June, the League was honored to participate in
hosting a gathering in Muir Woods to celebrate United
Nations World Environment Day. The Director of the
UN’s Environmental Program, Klaus Toepfer, and
mayors from cities around the world traveled from
downtown San Francisco on the last day of their five-
day conference, for an early morning walk in the
redwoods. With sunshine streaming through the trees,
the delegates, League Directors and Councillors, and
invited guests circled the ancient redwoods of
Cathedral Grove and stood in silence, listening to the
morning sounds of the forest and the echoes of history.
Sixty years ago, at the end of the Second World War,
world leaders convened in San Francisco to found the
United Nations. They, too, traveled to Muir Woods.
They went to honor recently deceased President
Franklin D. Roosevelt whose vision of an organization
dedicated to world peace was pivotal to the
architecture of the United Nations.
As emcee for the program that followed our walk, I
had the opportunity to tell the story of how one man
had acted to save Muir Woods. In 1903, William Kent
was alerted to plans to fell the ancient redwood forest
to build a dam at the mouth of Redwood Creek to
store water for nearby growing communities.
Convinced there was another way to meet the demand
for water, but no other way to replace the cathedral
formed by the canyon’s ancient redwoods, the Kent
family acted. They used their savings to purchase the
canyon to protect the majesty of that place, to assure
that the stately tempo of that forest would continue
uninterrupted. They acted to preserve the peace that
inspires all who visit.
William Kent’s purchase of Muir Woods was the
catalyst for the engagement of many others in the years
that followed, eventually transforming Redwood
Canyon into a National Monument, visited each year
by nearly a million people. William Kent also went on
to join with others to found Save-the-Redwoods League
in 1918, which has developed and implemented a
strategy to halt the devastation of the redwood forest,
through purchase of more than 170,000 acres stretching
from the California’s northernmost coastal range to the
tip of the Big Sur coast.
In June, the mayors returned to San Francisco to sign
accords based on their unique opportunity as mayors of
cities around the globe to lead their communities through
appropriate local actions to protect the planet’s natural
systems as a critical part of sustainable urban centers in an
era in which, for the first time, more of the earth’s
population lives in urban centers than in rural areas.
Protection of the natural system anchored by the
redwoods has been the mission of Save-the-Redwoods
League for more than 87 years, a mission that you
make possible by your engagement and membership in
this organization.
As John Muir said about the redwoods, “These kings
of the forest, the noblest of a noble race, rightly belong
to the world, but as they are in California, we cannot
escape the responsibility as their guardians. Fortunately,
the American people are equal to this trust.” Thank
you for joining with us as the guardians of the
redwoods.
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ach fall chinook salmon
return to Redwood National and
State Parks and the Redwood
Creek watershed. After a life at
sea, they make the arduous
journey back to their birthplace to
spawn in Redwood Creek.
Winding their way upstream, they
impress the Park’s human visitors
with their determination and
pluck. As they ascend beyond the
Park’s upstream boundary, many
of them head up one of Redwood
Creek’s largest tributaries, a steep
and deeply cleaved waterway
known as Lacks Creek. Here they
find the fresh, quickly moving
waters, gravel and food required
for successful reproduction. From
the high, steep slopes on the
eastern side of Lacks Creek,
waterfalls drop cool water into deep
pools, which provide a sanctuary for
the salmon.
The chinook are not alone in the waters of Lacks. It is
also a key creek for the area’s cutthroat, steelhead, and
coho. It is the only tributary to Redwood Creek,
upstream of the park, which hosts all four of the
anadromous species so central to the identity of the
Park five miles downstream.
This summer, Save-the-Redwoods League spearheaded
the purchase of 4,500 acres of the Lacks Creek
watershed to restore the area’s own ecological integrity
and to ensure the safety of the Park downstream. When
the National Park was established by Congress in 1968
it included 58,000 acres, focused on the majestic old-
growth redwoods of lower Redwood Creek. Ten years
later, to address the impacts of the upper watershed on
the health of the redwoods on the alluvial flats, the Park
was expanded by an additional 48,000
acres reaching up Redwood Creek. At
the same time, Congress designated a
“Park Protection Zone” identifying the
area even further upstream in which
acquisition and restoration would be a
priority. Lacks Creek is the heart of that
Protection Zone.
Today, Lacks Creek is still a very wild
place. Open prairies are linked by a
Douglas-fir forest suited to the drier
climate further inland than the
moisture-rich environment required by
the redwoods. But for all of its
wildness, and all of its beauty, park
ecologists and geologists recognize that
it also “contains some loaded guns that
are pointing at the salmon and at the
Park downstream,” says Greg Bundros,
a geologist with the Park.
Those loaded guns are major erosion
events waiting to happen. Timber has been harvested
from much of the area over the decades and both active
and abandoned logging roads lace the hills rising from
the creek.
Bundros has spent a decade studying the Redwood
Creek watershed, identifying the areas that pose the
greatest threat to the ecology of the Park downstream.
Lacks Creek follows a seismic fault and its inner gorge
is “remarkably steep, unstable, and prone to land
sliding,” says Bundros. Over the years, logging roads
have further destabilized the hill slopes surrounding the
creek. According to Bundros, road density exceeding
three miles per square mile on such land is considered
dangerous. Here the densities are often twice that. A
major landslide event could not only devastate the
spawning habitat, but could also wreak havoc
downstream in the Park itself. Lacks Creek has already
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Upstream Downstream
Lacks Creek: A Key Connection
Falls at Lacks Creek
Photo courtesy of Bureau of Land Management
(continued on page 4)
Kate Anderton and Klaus Toepfer, Executive Director
of the United Nations Environmental Program,
walking through Muir Woods.
3. begun to recover from years of intensive logging but
treating the roads in Lacks Creek will prevent sediment
that combines with erosion from upper Redwood
Creek, to alter its hydrology and pose risks to some of
the big trees that are the crown jewels of the Park.
Bob Barnum has been involved in the Park since its
inception. As a major landowner in Lacks Creek and
Humboldt County, Bob was part of the original Park
planning committee in the 1960s and recognized that
one day his lands in Lacks could play an important role
in protecting the Park.
A few years ago, when a variety of factors led Barnum
to consider selling some of his land, he thought of the
2,000 acres in Lacks Creek that he has been logging for
decades as part of a family ranch centered in Redwood
Creek. Barnum liked the idea of both adding to the
Park’s Protection Zone and ensuring that he knew his
downstream neighbors.
Bob is the fourth generation of Barnums in Humboldt
County. His great grandfather ran mules on the trails
linking the Pacific Coast to the gold country in the
Trinity Alps. Over the years, Barnum Timber has
accumulated forestland throughout the area. But as
timber values have dropped, and the price and
complexities of securing timber harvest plans in
California have risen, it has become increasingly
difficult to make the land profitable through logging,
according to Barnum.
Some might see that as a good thing. After all, it was
getting the logging industry to assume responsibility
for more of the real ecological costs of logging that
motivated the adoption of the regulations that are now
straining the pocketbooks of the timber companies.
But with dwindling profits and growing costs, many
private forest owners today are looking for another
easier way to get returns from their lands. At the rate of
about 30,000 acres a year, California landowners are
chopping up their holdings and turning their second
growth into second homes for affluent vacationers or
urban refugees.
“When a forest is subdivided and built on, the
environmental impacts on the area may be far worse
than those of good logging practices,” says Kate
Anderton, the League’s Executive Director. More roads
are built, more water is diverted or drawn from the
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“Lacks Creek is a key link in a chain of public and
private lands extending inland from the coast,”
Lynda Roush
Arcata Field Manager, Bureau of Land Management
watershed except for a single, large, well-managed,
historic family ranch.
BLM’s lands, known as the Lacks Creek Area of
Critical Environmental Concern (LCACEC), include
an impressive old-growth Douglas-fir forest, providing
key habitat for spotted owl, marbled murrelet, and
golden eagle. The addition will allow BLM to extend
recreational use for hikers, horseback riders, and cyclists
while also securing its ecological integrity. “Lacks Creek
is a key link in a chain of public and private lands
extending inland from the coast,” says Lynda Roush,
BLM Arcata Field Manager.
We encourage you to make a visit to Lacks Creek, to
walk through its prairies and forests in a landscape that
is now protected for all time, immune to the pressures
of subdivision development and further logging. Then,
plan a hike down into the Tall Trees Grove in Redwood
National and State Parks and experience the
connection of Redwood Creek’s tributaries to the
magnificent ancient redwoods of the lower River.
aquifer, and pesticide use and runoff increase. And
once a large forest has been divided into pieces, and
each one sold for the highest price, it is virtually
impossible ever to put it back together again. As long
as a forest can remain in large tracts, there is a chance
it can be restored or preserved. “In the case of lands in
the Redwood National and State Parks Protection
Zone, this is particularly important,” says Anderton.
Several years ago, Barnum asked the Park Service if
they would like to buy his 2,000 acres in Lacks Creek.
He was well aware how valuable it was as the upstream
spawning ground for the watershed’s salmon and trout
and for ensuring a safe future for the Park’s key
biological assets.
Although the Park Service acknowledged the
importance of the holdings to the Park, there was
simply no budget for acquisitions at that time. He then
turned to the Bureau of Land Management (BLM),
which already owned about 4,100 acres of Douglas-fir
forest in the Lacks Creek watershed. The BLM said
they would very much like to acquire the land, but
their budget wouldn’t allow it either.
That’s when Save-the-Redwoods League stepped in,
raising money and working with Barnum and another
private landowner, Eel River Sawmills, and the BLM to
make the deal. And this summer saw the conclusion of
the project with purchase and transfer to BLM of some
4,500 acres, protecting virtually the entire Lacks Creek
Redwood Creek Photo by Bob Wick, Bureau of Land Management
(continued from page 3)
Map by GreenInfo Network www.greeninfo.org
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When Edison Middle School
teacher Ellen Sachtjen launched the
Sequoia for Youth Program seven
years ago, she had merely hoped to
take some students to Sequoia
National Park to participate in its
management planning process. She
wanted to give them a chance to
contribute their views on how the
park might be woven into a middle
school curriculum. Many students
had no idea where or what Sequoia
National Park was. In fact, many
had never left south central Los
Angeles at all.
Today there are hundreds of
graduates from the Sequoia for
Youth Program, which received an
education grant from the League in
2005. All of those grads know a good
deal about the park and its ecology, and a lot more
about their own neighborhood.
“When I first saw a Sequoia tree, I
couldn’t believe it was standing there
in front of me,” says Joel Camacho,
a former student of Sachtjen’s. “In
LA everything is covered with
concrete. I was speechless. The trees
are so gentle, but they are also so
strong. They are a great example of
resilience,” he adds.
“The Sequoia for Youth Program is
all about drawing connections,” says
Ellen Sachtjen. Connections can be
made between inner-city students
and the natural world, and between
effort and outcome. And making
connections to the broader world
has helped Sachtjen’s students do
exceedingly well in school and
beyond. Camacho, for instance, now
a high school junior in Los Angeles,
is planning to attend Columbia University in New York
after finishing high school at the end of next year.
SPOTLIGHT ON LEAGUE EDUCATION GRANTEE: SEQUOIA YOUTH
South Central LA Youngsters
See Redwoods for Very First Time
Students at General Sherman Giant Sequoia
Photo by Ellen Sachtjen
Mendocino County
Conservation Easement
Photo by James Bernard,
Mendocino Land Trust
Noel Kirshenbaum: A Lifetime of Commitment
Noel Kirshenbaum remembers his first trip with his family in 1946 to the redwood forests.
Founders Grove made a vivid impression on him, as did the information he learned about
Save-the-Redwoods League. Inspired, young Noel sent his allowance to the League – and he
has repeated his giving ever since.
“The redwoods are unique. Who doesn’t love their aroma and beauty?” he asks.
Noel’s career as a mining industry metallurgist made him aware of society’s impact on the
environment. He makes an analogy between the loss of old-growth forests and the depletion of
high grade mineral resources. Noel created a charitable remainder trust to benefit the League.
“I made this gift in the spirit of enlightened self-interest. Financially, this deferred gift serves me well.” Noel is
discussing ways to memorialize his late wife who was also keenly fond of the redwoods. To be more engaged,
Noel now belongs to both the Redwood Legacy Circle and the Leadership Society.
“I believe in preserving redwoods. My gifts for their protection now and in the future give me great satisfaction,”
summarizes Noel.
For more information about planned giving or the Redwood Legacy Circle contact Suzanne Ritchie at
The League toll free, 888-836-0005.
Noel Kirshenbaum
Photo provided by
Noel Kirshenbaum
Lacks Creek Purchase Ensures Safety
of Redwoods in National Park
This project protects nearly 4,500 acres of land in the
watershed of this important tributary of Redwood
National and State Parks’ Redwood Creek
(see feature article).
League Enables Collaborative Purchase
of Ridgewood Ranch
A small spectacular stand of old growth redwoods
and mature second growth redwood forest are now
permanently protected on the historic Ridgewood
Ranch, near Willits, through collaboration with the
landowner and the local Mendocino Land Trust.
Map by GreenInfo Network www.greeninfo.org
Highlights of Recent League
Acquisition Activity
King Range Acquisition
Protects Salmon Habitat
Purchase of 593 acres in the
salmon rich watershed of the Mill
Creek at the mouth of the Mattole
River will protect a stand of ancient
Douglas-firs amplifying the benefits
for wildlife that depends on old-
forest habitats and extending the
protected area encompassed by the
BLM’s King Range National
Conservation Area. The King
Range is the largest unroaded
coastal area in the lower 48 states
and one of the anchors of the
League’s Corridor from the
Redwoods to the Sea project.
Mouth of Mattole
Photo courtesy of Bureau
of Land Management
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Groves Dedicated
in 2004 and 2005
As of June 15, 2005
Del Norte State Park:
The Peter D. Dickinson
Memorial Grove
Del Norte Coast Redwoods
State Park:
Max and Margaret Lichenheim
Grove
May Cole Titus and Leo Martin
Titus Memorial Grove
The Forest of Nisene Marks
State Park:
The Robert E. Peck Family
Memorial Grove
Humboldt Redwoods State Park:
Samuel Baumann Family Grove
Kimberley Joan Culpepper
Memorial Grove
Mill Creek Redwoods:
Jerome and Sylvia Cherin Grove
Navarro River Redwoods
State Park:
Charmin and David Knock Grove
Portola Redwoods State Park:
Captain & Mrs. H. Nordmark
Williams Grove
Prairie Creek Redwoods
State Park:
Lothar Kolbig Grove
Karl W. Weber Family Grove
Purisima Creek Redwoods
Memorial Groves:
Matthew C. Meadows Memorial
Grove
Redwood National and State Parks:
Richard J. Mazurek, M.D. Grove
Wilder Ranch State Park:
David W. Bareis Family Grove
Ruth and Spencer Overholser Grove
Gary Marlow Simmons Grove
Frederic Henry Willey Memorial
Grove
Grove of Tall Trees Photo by Bob Wick, Bureau of Land Management
Redwood Honor and
Memorial Gifts
Gifts to the honor or memory of a friend or loved ones can be made to Save-
the-Redwoods League, providing a thoughtful and unique tribute for family
and friends. When you make a tribute gift of $50 or more, the League sends
an attractive acknowledgement card of a beautiful redwood forest scene to the
individual or family that is honored. Tribute gifts support the League’s efforts
to protect and restore redwood forests throughout California.
You may also designate tribute or memorial gifts to our reforestation program.
For each $50 or greater gift to the tree planting program, a redwood sapling
will be planted as part of the California State Park’s reforestation program.
Each year, hundreds of redwood saplings are propagated from seed at a nursery
funded in part by honor and memorial gifts from people all across the country.
Once the seedlings are two years old, they are planted in redwood forests in
need of reforestation. The League works closely with the state parks staff to
ensure the viability of the parks.
To make a tribute gift, please call the League’s membership staff at 415-362-2352
or email us at membership@savetheredwoods.org.
Honor and memorial gifts may also be made online at our website,
www.savetheredwoods.org