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Executive Director Sara Barth looks up at the fire damage to a massive old-growth redwood in Big Basin Redwoods State Park in September 2020 just weeks after the CZU Fire scorched some 86,000 acres, by Ian Bornarth

CZU Anniversary

On August 16, 2020 a climate-fueled-weather event sparked the most catastrophic fire ever recorded in the Santa Cruz Mountains. Over the next month, fire raged through the region impacting lives, communities, parks, and some of the most ancient and beloved remaining coast redwood forests in the world. A year later, we look back at the CZU Fire.

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COTONI-COAST RIDGE: A CALL TO ACTION

Cotoni-Coast Ridge provides habitat for the American badger, white-tailed kite, great horned owl and northern harrier. It falls within the nesting range of the endangered marbled murrelet. Mountain lions roam across the connected forests. And, the property includes headwaters for a creek that is essential for the endangered Coho and steelhead salmon. Sempervirens Fund has…

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