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California Climate Bond
With increasingly severe fires, floods, and sea level rise affecting the state each year, California should be rapidly investing to deploy climate mitigation measures and strengthen its resiliency as soon as possible. Ask your legislators to act on a climate bond in 2024.
Help Rebuild State Parks
Help California State Parks rebuild Big Basin, Butano, and Año Nuevo State Parks and protect the region’s incredible biodiversity devastated by the 2020 CZU Fire. Ask state leadership to rebuild State Parks and protect priority lands in the Santa Cruz mountains.
America the Beautiful
The vision for protecting and restoring 30% of America’s land and waters by 2030 has a ways to go. Urge state leadership to prioritize conserving and restoring lands, waters, and wildlife.
Action Center
Action Center Take Action for Redwoods and the Earth In 1900, Sempervirens Fund was founded by citizen advocates seeking to protect redwoods. Redwoods survive today thanks to people like you and with your support, they can thrive. You can take action today to protect redwoods, the Santa Cruz mountains, and our climate for generations to…
NEWS: Sempervirens Fund welcomes three new members to its board of directors
Juan Benitez, Marimo Berk, and Brad Lewis join our board of directors to help lead the conservation efforts of California’s first and oldest land trust.
Lichens
You may know redwoods hold mini ecosystems on their branches, but did you know a lichen on just one of those branches is a micro ecosystem of its own? Climb into the hidden biodiversity of redwood forests with lichenologist and curator of The Lichenarium at Santa Barbara Botanic Garden Dr. Rikke Reese Næsborg.
Tiny Critters in Giant Trees: Dr. Rikke Reese Næsborg
Coast redwood (Sequoia sempervirens) supports rich communities of epiphytes growing high in their crowns, including a diversity of lichens, bryophytes, and vascular plants. Join lichenologist Dr. Rikke Reese Næsborg for an exploration of the results from two separate studies of epiphyte communities in the northern and southern part of the coast redwood range. We address…
Redwoods and the Deep Roots of Our Future with Dr. Daniel Lewis
Join Dr. Daniel Lewis, author, historian, and curator at one of the world’s most renowned research libraries, to discuss how redwoods have survived for eons, and whether they can adapt in the face of climate change as discussed in his new book Twelve Trees: The Deep Roots of Our Future.
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Why Advocacy Matters for Redwoods and the Earth with Rachel Dann
Go behind the scenes with Rachel Dann, Sempervirens Fund’s Government Relations Director, to discuss how you can take action for redwoods and the Earth through advocacy to magnify our impact together to protect redwoods and fight climate change.
World Wildlife Day: Take the Poll
Celebrate World Wildlife Day by voting for your favorite creature—from banana slugs to Townsend big-eared bats—in the redwood forests you help us protect.