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Under the Redwoods
- Find that Lizard: Dr. Earyn McGee
- From Forests to Canvas: Jane Kim
- How Climate Tech and Nature are Coming Together: Dick Cameron, Pachama
- Bajos Los Redwoods: Latino Outdoors’ Luis Villa and Claudia Pineda Tibbs
- Trails Rx and Healthful Recreation: Dr. Suzanne Bartlett Hackenmiller
- Redwoods and the Deep Roots of our Future: Dr. Daniel Lewis
- Why Advocacy Matters for Redwoods: Rachel Dann
- Tiny Critters in Giant Trees: Dr. Rikke Reese Næsborg
- Fungi and Forests: Maya Elson
- Why Watersheds Matter: Kellyx Nelson
- Prescribing Nature: Dr. Suzanne Bartlett Hackenmiller
- Water Always Wins: Erica Gies
- Black Nature Writing: Erin Sharkey
- Accessibility in Nature: Syren Nagakyrie, Disabled Hikers
- Santa Cruz Mountain State Parks: Chris Spohrer
- Redwoods as Elderflora: Jared Farmer
- Climate Action Plan for Redwoods: Laura McLendon and Tom Robinson
- Mycology, Redwoods, and Eugenics with Dr. Patricia Ononiwu Kaishian
- Learning from Nature with Felicia Van Stolk
- 2022: A Milestone Year in Conservation with Sempervirens Fund Staff
- Under the Redwoods with Alec Apodaca and Alexii Sigona
- Trail-Making in the Santa Cruz Mountains with Matt De Young
- Illustrating Nature with Jane Kim
- Art, Land, and Emotion with composer Scott Ordway
- The Magic of Learning in Nature with Carrie Herrera
- Prescribed Burning in California with Lenya Quinn-Davidson
- Birds of the Central Coast with Alvaro Jaramillo
- Looking Deep into the Past for Clues to Climate’s Future with Jason Addison
- Introduction to Forest Bathing: Dr. Suzanne Bartlett Hackenmiller
- The History of #OptOutside: Vivienne Long, REI
- Restoring Mill Creek and the San Vicente Watershed: Ian Rowbotham and Kelli Camara
- Fire and Forests in California: Professor Scott Stephens
- Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest: Suzanne Simard
- Reimagining Big Basin: Chris Spohrer
- The Future of Parks and Conservation in the Bay Area: Doug McConnell
- Pumas in the Santa Cruz Mountains: Chris Wilmers
- The Marvels and Mystery of the Marbled Murrelet: Portia Halbert
- Treasure Hunting in the Santa Cruz Mountains: Amy Patten
- Redwoods as an Idea: Robert Buelteman
- Looking to California State Parks’ Future: Armando Quintero
- Indigenous People of the Santa Cruz Mountains: Valentin Lopez
- Signs of Life: Forests in Recovery
- Managing for Wildfire in the Santa Cruz Mountains
News
- A Stewardship Story: Return to Nature
- Sempervirens Fund welcomes Dana McRae to its board of directors
- Exploring Trails and Their Benefits: Vamos Outdoors
- Statement on the Passage of Measure Q (Santa Cruz County)
- Statement on the Passage of Proposition 4
- An Extraordinary Look at an Ordinary Lizard
- Find That Lizard
- Water and Wildfire Protection for Redwoods
- The Opposite of Redwoods
- NEWS: Statement on Ca. Governor’s Veto of AB 2013 (Pellerin)
- NEWS: Sempervirens Fund purchases Año Nuevo Vista
- Fall and Winter Hikes
- Giants Rising
- Protect Año Nuevo Vista
- Healing Under Redwood Groves
- NEWS: Sempervirens Fund Launches Trails Prescription Program for the Santa Cruz Mountains
- Introduction to Forest Bathing
- ParksRx and You
- Santa Cruz Sandhills
- Help Rebuild State Parks
- Living with Trees: A Historian’s Perspective for the Future
- Save Climate Funding in State Budget
- NEWS: Sempervirens Fund Acquires Properties for New Entrance to Big Basin Redwoods State Park; AB 2103 Advances in State Legislature
- California Climate Bond
- America the Beautiful
- NEWS: Sempervirens Fund welcomes three new members to its board of directors
- Lichens
- World Wildlife Day: Take the Poll
- Fungi of the Forest: Meet the Mushrooms of San Vicente Redwoods
- Sempervirens Fund permanently protects 120 acres in Santa Cruz mountains’ Upper Zayante watershed
- 2023 News: What You’ve Made Possible
- Awakening of the Silent Forest
- Rachel Dann joins Sempervirens Fund as Director of Government Relations
- Close Encounter: Monitoring Marbled Murrelets
- Indigenous Stewardship at San Vicente Redwoods: Past, Present, and Future
- NEWS: San Vicente Redwoods Progress Report on Wildfire Resilience Restoration Three Years After CZU Wildfire, Amid Continued Risk
- NEWS: Castle Rock Hollow Purchase to Complete Protected Natural Boundary of Castle Rock State Park
- Fuel for Fire: Framing Forest Resilience Three Years After the CZU Fire
- NEWS: California State Parks Purchases Six Properties from Sempervirens Fund, Permanently Expanding Castle Rock State Park
- Castle Rock State Park Legacy
- Conservation, Eco-Ableism, and Reclaiming Limitations
- Beyond the Bloom: Superblooms in the Santa Cruz Mountains
- NEWS: Sterrenzee Ridgetop Acquired to Expand Footprint of Big Basin Redwoods State Park Area Conservation
- Redwoods and Climate Part 4
- Ancient Trees in a Modern World
- Earth Month of Action
- A Tangled Web: Redwoods, Colonialism, Eugenics, and Climate Change
- DEIJ Reading List
- The Seedling Saga
- Ten Ways Nature Can Help You Have a Healthy 2023
- NEWS: Camp Jones Gulch Protected
- Story of a Seedling
- Monitoring Wildlife for Healthy Forests
- Redwoods and Climate Part 3
- Coho, Cobble, and Creek Beds: A Year After the Mill Creek Dam Was Removed
- NEWS: Partners to Open First Phase of New Public Trails at San Vicente Redwoods
- Underground Allies: The Importance of Fungi in Redwood Conservation
- NEWS: Sempervirens Fund Celebrates $15M in Donations for Capital Campaign: Redwoods Now, For All, Forever
- Back to (Nature) School
- Big Basin Returns
- Camp Jones Gulch: Childhood Connections Create Conservationists
- Redwoods and Climate Part 2
- NEWS: Sempervirens Fund Announces Kickoff of its Capital Campaign: Redwoods Now, For All, Forever
- The End of Rain
- Celebrating Independence and Honoring Interdependence
- Protecting Camp Jones Gulch
- Reimagining Big Basin
- Camp Jones Gulch: A Partnership for Youth and Nature
- NEWS: Sempervirens Fund Announces Plan to Preserve The Y of San Francisco’s Camp Jones Gulch and Redwood Forests in Santa Cruz Mountains
- Birds and Birding in the Santa Cruz Mountains
- NEWS: Sempervirens Fund Establishes GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS® Title with #HugATreeChallenge
- Accessibility in the Santa Cruz Mountains
- 10 Trees Around the World
- Redwoods and Climate
- Cancelled: Hug-a-Tree Challenge at Roaring Camp
- NEWS: Sempervirens Fund Attempts to Establish GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS® Title on Earth Day with #HugATreeChallenge
- Eradicating Non-Native Species at San Vicente Redwoods
- 50 Trees in 50 States
- Top 10 Redwood Trails 2022
- NEWS: Redwood Forests at Big Basin Entrance Protected Forever
- Preserve the Gateway to Big Basin
- NEWS: Redwood Forests at Big Basin Entrance Slated for Conservation
- Redwood Fairy Rings and the Magic of Science
- Sempervirens Fund and REI #OptOutside
- Bats of the Redwoods
- NEWS: San Vicente Redwoods Marks 10 Years as a “Living Laboratory” for Wildfire Resilience, Wildlife Protection and Ecosystem Restoration
- San Vicente Creek: Restoring a Stronghold
- NEWS: Mill Creek Dam Removed in Santa Cruz Mountains
- Mill Creek Dam and the San Vicente Watershed
- A Marbled Murrelet Fledges from Big Basin
- Nature Needs Time to Heal
- CZU Anniversary
- Big Basin: Honor its Past, Build it to Last
- Funding for Big Basin’s Future and Santa Cruz Redwood Forests
- Eight Ways Science Helps Protect Redwoods
- Redwood Camping and Backpacking
- Old-Growth: What it Means and Why it Matters
- Songs to Inspire and Protect Our Planet
- OpenRoad with Doug McConnell
- Statement on Big Basin and Governor’s California State Budget Revisions
- NEWS: CEMEX Agrees to Removal of Dam at Mill Creek in Santa Cruz Mountains
- Wildflowers After Wildfire
- Land Trust Accreditation: Your Comments Welcome
- The Life and Times of Pumas
- The Natural Healing Power of Fire
- Redwoods, Pumas, and People
- Nature for All: Explore the Outdoors
- What is Stewardship?
- Winter Wildfires
- NEWS: Sempervirens Fund Welcomes Michael Watkins and Peter Staple to its Board of Directors
- Big Basin Recovery Fund Supports Access and Safety Improvements
- Big Basin Memories
- As 2020 ends, double your support for redwoods
- On #GivingTuesday, triple your support for redwoods
- Fall & Winter Outdoor Ideas 2020
- What Recovery Means for Big Basin and Santa Cruz Redwoods
- Wildfires in Big Basin Redwoods State Park
- Land and Water Conservation Fund is Forever!
- Historic Moment for the Land and Water Conservation Fund
- Action Alert: Great American Outdoors Act Need Your Support
- Action Alert: Bills in Congress and State Legislature Need Your Support
- Statement on Racial Justice
- Take Action Now: Cotoni-Coast Dairies National Monument needs your voice!
- Coronavirus
- Fire Creates Forest Resilience
- Exploring Nature and Leaving It Be: a Guide
- Sempervirens Fund Takes Ownership of Gazos Creek
- Official Opening of the Robert C. Kirkwood Entrance
- 320-Acre Filice Ranch Acquired in Sempervirens Fund/POST Partnership
- Sempervirens Fund Participates in Unique Partnership to Save 1,000 Acres
- Restoring San Vicente Creek to Save Endangered Salmon
- Sempervirens Fund Protects 50 Acres of Redwood Forest Next to Castle Rock State Park and the Skyline-to-the-Sea Trail
- Paul Archambeault: A Redwood Hero 30 Years in the Making
- Fall & Winter Outdoor Ideas 2018
- How Redwoods Survive Wildfire
- Clematis Removal Project Underway in San Vicente Redwoods
- Proposition 68 Passes
- In Memoriam Bob Kirkwood :: 1939-2017
- Amphitheater Construction Underway at New Robert C. Kirkwood Entrance!
- Sempervirens Club’s Christmas Wish List in 1908
- Rain Sorcery: A Wyrd Hike with Newts
- Searching for the Tallest Second-Growth Trees
- The Bear Fire
- John Felstiner and Poetry as Environmental Activism
- Tilford George Berry: The Ghost of the Gambling Hermit in Big Basin’s Berry Creek Falls
- Construction is underway for the new Castle Rock Gateway
- Opinion: California state parks are crumbling; how can we help?
- Rally for SB-5 and AB-18 Draws Hundreds
- Ornithology Mystery Solved at Big Basin
- Shrink at least 4 national monuments and modify a half-dozen others, Zinke tells Trump
- COTONI-COAST RIDGE: A CALL TO ACTION
- Russell Varian: The Man Who Helped Win the Battle of Britain and Create Castle Rock State Park
- The Jerry Garcia-Sempervirens Fund Connection
- Meadow Restoration and Research
- Coast Redwoods Fight Climate Change
- Speak up for our National Monuments and the California Coast
- Google Trekker Maps Santa Cruz Mountains Trails
- Last Chance for CA State Parks’ “Redwoods” License Plate
- Partnering to Protect the Redwoods
- President Obama Designates Cotoni-Coast Dairies National Monument!
- Our 2016 Accomplishments and Future Investments
- Giving Tuesday – Gives Back To Students
- Meet Amah Mutsun Land Trust’s First Executive Director
- Ghost Redwoods – Solving the Albino Redwoods Mystery
- Sempervirens Fund has been re-accredited by the Land Trust Alliance Accreditation Commission
- Sara Barth Joins Sempervirens Fund as New Executive Director
- The Life and Times of a Banana Slug
- Love the Outdoors – Gifts and Events for Valentine’s Day and Beyond
- Historian Kevin Starr presents “Conservation in California: Continuing the Legacy of the Sempervirens Fund” (video)
- Land Trust Alliance Re-accreditation Notice
- OpenRoad: Quiroste Valley – Restoring Sacred Ground
- Cotoni-Coast Dairies National Monument Campaign
- Discover Sempervirens Falls at Big Basin Redwoods State Park
- Pamela Koch Joins Sempervirens Fund’s Board of Directors
- Amanda Montez Joins Sempervirens Fund’s Board of Directors
- National Monument Campaign Kick-off a Huge Success! Highlights & Photos
- Measure Q and Prop 1 Win, Assisted by Sempervirens Fund Support
- Redwood Champions Amid Drought and Climate Change
- Sempervirens Fund and POST Submit San Vicente Redwoods Timber Harvest Plan (THP)
- Sempervirens Fund Wins Approval for New Facilities at Silicon Valley’s “Hidden Gem,” Castle Rock State Park
- Austin Swift Joins Sempervirens Fund’s Board of Directors
- Sempervirens Fund Commits Early Support for the California Water Bond Initiative
- California Wildlife Board Approves $10 Million To Complete Protection of San Vicente (Cemex) Redwoods
- Fred Keeley Elected Sempervirens Fund Board President
- CEMEX Redwoods Starts New Life as San Vicente Redwoods
- Sempervirens Fund Adds 33-Acre Redwood Forest to the Great Park
- Sempervirens Fund Welcomes Finance Director Patrick Gibbons
- Sempervirens Fund Receives Great Reviews!
- Sempervirens Fund Earns National Recognition
- Big Basin’s Campfire Center Restored
- 412 Acres of Redwood Forest, 1,400 Old‑Growth Trees, and Two Girl Scouts Camps Protected!
- Sempervirens Fund Protects 76 Acres Adjoining Big Basin, Including Marbled Murrelet Habitat
- Sempervirens Fund Protects 151 Acres of Redwood Forest Near Bonny Doon
- Preparations Begin for Sustainable Timber Harvest Plan (THP) For Small Portion of Cemex Redwoods
- Sempervirens Fund Partners with the Amah Mutsun Tribal Band, Costanoa Lodge to Protect Land Near Big Basin Redwoods and Año Nuevo State Parks
- Sempervirens Fund Protects 80 Acres of Local Coast Redwood Forest Near Big Basin State Park
- Sempervirens Fund Protects Local Redwood Forests from Looser Timber Harvest Rules
- Sempervirens Fund buys 80 acres in priority conservation areas
and MATCHED up to $50,000.
