Save the Redwoods Leauge


Since 1918 the Save-The-Redwoods League has been protecting the redwoods of California. They do this in the simplest way possible: they buy redwood forest land. Then they turn the land over to one of the California Redwood State Parks, Redwood or Sequoia National Parks, or another public park or reserve, where the redwoods can be enjoyed today and are protected for tomorrow.

 Save-The-Redwoods League has an advantage over many other organizations, their results are direct and tangible. If you choose to join you can make a gift to the general fund to be used where it is needed most, or to the Redwood Land Purchase Program, or to plant a redwood seedling as part of a reforestation project.. Which ever you choose and if you want to see the results of your donation you need only visit a redwood park.

 Seventy-eight years ago when the Save-The-Redwoods League was founded, their goal was to rescue the most spectacular old-growth redwoods from logging. Their program has been successful, more than eighty thousand acres of second-growth redwoods and watershed lands have been acquired for public parks. Last year alone the League completed a dozen redwood land acquisitions that will convey more than three thousand acres to public ownership. But their program is not finished.

 The redwoods depend for their survival on the health of the watersheds around them. The League needs your support to buy more redwood forest and watershed lands to complet the redwood parks and to protect them from freeway construction, logging, erosion, and development.

Recent Acquisitions
(The Internet Base Camp Article Date: July 23, 1997)

The focus of the Save-The-Redwoods League's acquisition program over the past year has been the Gray Whale Ranch. This magnificent 2300 acre parcel in the Santa Cruz Mountains was transferred to the State of California on May 1, 1997, as part of the Wilder Ranch State Park and will be opened to the public later this summer. However, this is by no means the only acquisition that the League has been working on.

 Last summer (1996) the Save-The-Redwoods League purchased one hundred twenty acres of old-growth redwoods near the Mattole River in northern Mendocino County, California. This is the parcel known locally as the Goshawk Grove. It has been donated to the State of California for Sinkyone Wilderness State Park which it adjoins near the Park Headquarters. The purchase took four years to negotiate but the League's persistence has paid off. The value of the old-growth timber on the property is more than one and hone-half million dollars, and it will make an outstanding addition to the Park. The League has retained a conservation easement to ensure the Goshawk Grove will never be used for anything but a public park.

 For several years the League has been buying lots in a small subdivision at Redway, California, along the Eel River next to Humboldt Redwoods State Park. It is an area of beautiful old-growth trees, with little extensive development yet to disrupt the natural qualities of the area. This is a long-term project. The League is working with the landowners in the hope of bringing the whole area into the Park where the public can enjoy the river and the redwood forest.

 Also at Humboldt Redwoods State Park, the League has purchased three and a half acres at the south end of the Avenue of the Giants formerly used as a burl factory. The staff at Humboldt Redwoods State Park has given the League tremendous help in cleaning up this and other properties.

Link to the Save-The-Redwoods Leauge Web Page

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