ForestLife - Summer 2009 Newsletter

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We also offer profo

thanks for the dev

service and scien

insights of outgo

board member N

Christenson, who

continue to advise u

Professor of Ecology

Founding Dean of DuNicholas School of

Environment.

Longtime PFT board member Jame

Range, one of PFTs most inspirati

mentors and dear friends, passed a

in January. Range was an amazin

effective conservationist and a

defender of all wildlife. He leave

legacy we admire and for which we

only be grateful. t

We are pleased toannounce thatWilliam W. Stelle, Jr.,

who leads the Endangered

Species Act Practice

Group for the law rm

K&L Gates, has become

PFTs new Board Chair.

Outgoing Chair Walter

Sedgwick, who will

remain on the Board,

led PFT for seven years and made

many valuable contributions to PFTs

strategic development during a period of

signicant growth for the organization.

As a leader in forest stewardship,

conservation and philanthropy,

Sedgwick was dedicated and generous

with his counsel and support for PFT.

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ForestLifeForests for Work. Forests for Life.

th nwslr of

The Pacifc Forest Trust

Board of Dircors

William W. Stelle, Jr., Chair

Timothy N. Taylor, Vice Chair

Charles Swindells, Treasurer

Andrea E. Tuttle, Secretary

Laurie A. Wayburn,PresidentWilliam H. Banzhaf

Constance Best

O.H. Perry Lloyd

Kirk Marckwald

Timothy B. Pirrung

Hal Salwasser

Walter SedgwickGregory Tebbe

William Hutton, Counsel

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Laurie A. Wayburn,PresidentConstance Best,Managing Director

ohn Bernstein,Vice President of Conservation

Christine Harrison, Communications Director

Peter Kodzis, Director of Finance & Admin.

Steve Van Landingham, Development Director

Sean OSullivan, Ofce/IT Manager

Jonathan Remucal,Stewardship Manager

Emily Russell-Roy, NE Policy Project Manager

Paula Swedeen, Senior Policy Analyst

Matt Fehrenbacher, Stewardship Forester

Anton Chiono, Policy Associate

Jesse Leddick, Conservation Associate

Jessica Neff,Stewardship Associate

Alex Page, Development Associate

Aimee Sprague, Development Associate

Jolanta Zakrzewski, Accountant

ediors

Randall Beren

Christine Harrison

Ar Dircor

Randall Beren

The Pacic Forest Trust is the leading non-protorganization dedicated to sustaining Americas

vital working forests for all their public benets.

2009 The Pacic Forest Trust.All rights reserved.

Reproduction permitted with attribution.

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The U.S. EnvironmentalProtection Agency(EPA) has conferred its

highest honor for climate

protection on Laurie

Wayburn and Connie

Best for their leadership

directing the Pacic

Forest Trusts (PFT) work

advancing the critical

role of forests in the ght

against global warming.

After participating in a climate leader

roundtable of past and present award

winners earlier in the day, PFTs co-founders received the EPAs 2009

Climate Protection Award during a

special Earth Day ceremony held at the

Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C.

The agency recognized PFT as one of the

best of the best organizations working

to reduce greenhouse gas emissions

for our successful Working Forests,

Winning Climate campaign that has

galvanized efforts aro

the country to harness

climate benets of for

Policymakers increasi

are heeding PFTs cainclude U.S. forestla

in their climate strate

as federal lawma

craft legislation to red

greenhouse gas emissi

I am pleased to comm

Wayburn and Best for their leader

and tremendous contributions to

national dialogue on forests and clim

by providing a strategy for achiereal, veriable carbon reductions w

also contributing to the developmen

programs and policies that will enha

legislative and regulatory climate cha

reduction goals, wrote California

Resources Board Chair Mary Nich

who nominated Wayburn and Best.

Read more about the award on our b

at www.ForestsWorkWonders.org

Wayburn & Best Earn U.S. EPAClimate ProtectionAward

Stelle Seated as Board Chai

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Forests rise on the national climateagenda was evident at the PacicForest Trusts recent Capitol Hill

eception for 2008 Outside-the-

Box Awardwinner Senator Debbie

Stabenow (D-MI). Stabenow leads an

nuential group of senators whose

votes will be crucial to advancing

federal climate legislation.

The March 5 event, co-hosted by Senator

Barbara Boxer (D-CA), Representative

Mike Thompson (D-CA) and USDA

Ofce of Ecosystem Services DirectorSally Collins, was one of the largest

ever assembled in Washington, D.C.,

on the topic of U.S. forests and national

climate policy. PFT honored Stabenow

for her leadership in Congress raising

awareness of the climate benets of

forests and other working lands.

I am committed to continuing to work

with the Pacic Forest Trust to make

sure that there are strong incentivesfor sustainable forest management

practices, to think outside the box to

protect and preserve our forests and to

use this opportunity to tackle what is the

real challenge of our generation: global

warming, Stabenow remarked.

In 2008, Stabenow held the rst-ever

Senate hearing on the subject at which

PFT President Laurie Wayburn addressed

lawmakers. As a representative of a

forest-rich state and chair of the Senate

Sub-Committee on Rural Revitalizatio

Conservation, Forestry and Cred

Stabenow is expected to be a leadi

voice this year calling for cap and tralegislation that balances environmen

concerns with the economic needs

working families.

Senator Stabenows outside-the-b

thinking on this issue will serve t

country well in the climate discussio

already underway, said Waybu

She understands that conserving a

stewarding forests for their clima

benets also safeguards these lanfor the families and communities w

depend on them for jobs and many oth

public benets.

PFT Board members Will Stel

Andrea Tuttle and Kirk Marckwa

joined Wayburn at the recep

which was sponsored by K&L Gat

Lyme Timber Company, Pacic G

& Electric Company, the National Fi

and Wildlife Foundation and the La

Trust Alliance. t

Senator Stabenow Honored in D.C.PFT Recognizes Michigan Congresswomans Forests & Climate Wor

Lyme Timber Company General Partner Peter Stein, Senator Stabenows Legislative Counsel Chris Adamo and Pacific ForestTrust President Laurie Wayburn celebrate the Senators Outside-the-Box Award during a March 5th reception in her honor.

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No Net LossPFT Calls on Federal Government to Establish Policies that

Monitor, Maintain and Market the Climate Benefits of Forests

The time for real and meaningfulclimate action has nally come.As we go to press, policymakers

in Congress and in the new Obama

administration are drafting what could

be landmark legislation to regulate

greenhouse gas emissions. Nations

from around the world are preparing

for negotiations in Copenhagen this

fall to frame the successor agreement

to the Kyoto Protocol. A groundswell

of national recognition is rising

around the potential for signicant

sequestration gains to be achieved

from the conservation, restoration and

management of our countrys vast and

vital temperate forests in cooperation

with Americas 10 million forest owners.

Of course, reduced emissions must also

be achieved from the conservation of

tropical forests.

PFT is working closely with

policymakers and our partners in the

environmental and forest communities

to ensure the climate contributions

from Americas working forests are

front and center in the framework

now being studied, constructed and

rened by a myriad of stakeholders

and interest groups from coast to coast.

While embracing the climate benets

of forests is straightforward to forest

owners, there are still great concerns

among Americans and Congress

about the accuracy, permanence and

veriability of carbon reductions from

forests especially if these are used to

reduce or offset the obligations for

reductions from economic sectors like

energy or transportation.

For U.S. forests to be leveraged for

signicant and lasting climate benets,

we need to go beyond thinking of forests

as a source of offsets and begin torecognize forests as a sector in its own

right. Then, with scientic monitoring

and accurate accounting of gains and

losses from forests broadly including

ows into other sectors public

condence in the capacity of forests to

contribute lasting emissions reductions

will grow. That condence will allow

for forest landowners to be rewarded

appropriately for their commitment to

long-term climate stewardship.

We are, therefore, urging the Obama

Administration and Congress to establish

a three-part set of policies to address the

climate impacts of the forest sector:

1. Monitor Americas forest carbon

stores, applying standardized accounting

for gains and losses on a life-cycle basis

for forests and forest products, including

biomass energy.

2. Maintain Americas forest carbon

bank account by requiring No Net Loss

of forestlands, with greater incentives

for forest conservation and assurances

that losses to forest carbon stocks are

assessed and mitigated.

3. Market net durable gains from

forest sequestration in order to provide

landowners with incentives for

increasing forest stores. t

Envisioning a

PresidentialProclamation

Whereas, carbon dioxide

emissions from forest loss and

depletion are second only to

fossil fels as the largest sorce o

anthropogenic CO2;

Whereas, changes to the fores

landscape are responsible fo

almost half of all excess CO2 in

the atmosphere today;

Whereas, over the last decade, the

u.S. has been losing an estimated

1.5 million acres of forestland to

development each year more

than any other kind of land;

Whereas, the average u.S. forestoday holds mch less carbon

than it did historically and mch

less than it can natrally;

Whereas, forests are the secto

that can be actively managed

to both avoid carbon dioxide

emissions and reabsorb the

greatest volme of CO2 from the

atmosphere;

Whereas, CO2

stores in America

forests can be conserved and

expanded immediately and

sstained over hndreds of years

Therefore, the President of the

united States of America nd

that a national policy of No Net

Loss is critical to establish as a

key element of or efforts to help

solve the climate crisis.


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Safe Harbor is a Win, Win, WinInnovative New Agreement Rewards Landowner Stewardship,

Ensures Sustainable Timber Harvests & Increases Critical Habitat

W

hen biologists are out looking

for Northern Spotted Owls this

spring, their hooting might sound a

warning for some forest owners. The

threatened owls answering call can

lead to increased regulatory restrictions

on private land use. But those concerns

have been eased for owners of the Van

Eck Forest in Humboldt, California.

The working forest conservation

easement on the 2,200-acre redwood

forest helped the Pacic Forest Trust

negotiate with the U.S. Fish and WildlifeService (USFWS) to obtain a Safe

Harbor Agreement (SHA) for Northern

Spotted Owls at the end of last year.

This Agreement provides operational

certainty for our forest management,

ensuring the forest stays productive

even as more owls are drawn to the

habitat PFT is working to restore.

This Agreement is a triple win, says

PFT President Laurie Wayburn. Owls

win because their habitat is enhancedand conserved. Landowners win

because they can manage their forests to

encourage biodiversity without fear that

doing so will cripple their operations

if theyre too successful in voluntarily

attracting wildlife. The public, along

with state and federal regulators, all

win because this cooperative approach

helps meet their goals of permanently

preserving endangered species and

their habitat.

Safe Harbor Agreements are used to

promote conservation of endangered

and threatened species on privately

owned land. The agreements encourage

landowners to foster wildlife habitat on

their property without fear that doing

so might expose them to increased

restriction on future use of their land

under the terms of the federal Endangered

Species Act.

This Safe Harbor Agreement is an

innovative example of how a private

landowner and the U.S. Fish and

Wildlife Service can work together

to bring about meaningful and lasting

conservation changes, says Ren

Lohoefener, Director of the USFWSPacic Southwest Region. This SHA

with the Pacic Forest Trust can be a

model for other landowners and timber

companies in Northern California. Under

this agreement, timber can continue to

be harvested, but it will be done so in

a way that will ultimately grow more

habitat for Northern Spotted Owls.

The Pacic Forest Trust manages the

Van Eck Forest on behalf of the Fred

M. van Eck Forest Foundation with

the goal of attracting and sustaining

wildlife, producing sustainable timber

and contributing to a well-balanced

climate as the states rst registered

CO2 emissions reduction project. The

working forest conservation easement

on the property prevents development

and guides its management to restore

an older, more natural forest structure

that the owls need for habitat.

This approach also increases stora

of carbon dioxide while maintaining

exceeding the timber yields found

more traditionally managed propertie

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Servi

carefully scrutinized the conservatieasement provisions before agreei

the easement could form the foundati

of the Safe Harbor Agreement.

consideration of the easemen

provisions and permanence, the USFW

granted the Van Eck Forest a maximu

SHA term of 90 years.

In effect, an SHA achieved with a worki

forest conservation easement serves

bundle the protection and restoration

many public benets including reduc

CO2 emissions and habitat protection f

vulnerable species. In turn, participati

landowners receive their own set

benets, including new markets and

assurance of operational certainty.

We hope to emulate the synergis

success of this agreement in the futu

with other landowners consideri

conservation easements. t

Habitat restoration efforts on the Van Eck Forest are proving effective. This femaland other Northern Spotted Owls have been spotted in and around the forest.


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acre mixed conifer forest in Sh

County, California, that shares sim

characteristics to the Love C

Forest. Recognized as an Outstand

Tree Farmer by American Tree F

Systems, the Phillips Family cre

beautiful specialty boxes at their hist

steam-powered mill.

The Phillips Family is committed

sustaining the high-level of car

already stored on their property

increasing that sequestion permane

so that, over the lifetime of the proj

an additional 80,000 tons of CO2be removed from the atmosphere.

property and its carbon bank are secu

by a conservation easement granted

the family to the Pacic Forest Trus

For further information on these

other forest carbon projects, pl

contact PFT Managing Director Co

Best at 415.561.0700 x19 or em

[email protected]. t

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Family Forest Owners

Manage for ClimateSmith & Phillips Families Register their CO

Emissions Reductions with Help from PFT

MonumentalAchievement

FT is making great progress with our

ffort to more fully conserve Oregons

Cascae-Siskiyou National Monument.

At the en of 2008, we transfere 900

cres of forestlans locate within

he Monuments planning area to the

ureau of Lan Management (BLM) for

fcial inclusion in the Monument. This

a major victory in our Campaign to

omplete the Vision.Congress has since authorize

875,000 in 2009 spening foritional Monument acquisitions.

resient Obamas buget proposes

o increase similar conservation

uning. This is encouraging news as

we work with the BLM an others

o transfer the remaining 3,820 acres

were holing into the Monument.

pecial thanks are ue House Speaker

Nancy Pelosi (d-CA); Senators dianne

einstein (d-CA) an Ron Wyen (d-

OR); former Senator Goron Smith

R-OR), an Representatives PeterdeFazio (d-OR) an Norm dicks

d-WA). These lawmakers have

een instrumental in securing the

ppropriations from the Lan an Water

Conservation Fun being use to fun

hese acquisitions.

ee a news vieo on the transaction at:

www.youtube.com/pacificforesttrust

Rising demand for real, additional,permanent and veriable emissionsreductions generated by forest

conservation and stewardship is fueling

new climate projects in California and

across the United States. The Pacic

Forest Trust is working in partnership

with landowners on eight new projects,

three of which have already been listed

with the Climate Action Reserve under

the rigorous California standards. Here

are snapshots of two new projects thatare now accruing rst-year emissions

reductions that will be independently

veried and certied in early 2010.

The 413-acre Love Creek Forest is a

Sierran mixed conifer forest located

next to Big Trees State Park in Calaveras

County, California, that has been lovingly

managed by the Smith Family for 65

years. Leaders in the stewardship of

family forests, the Smiths are committedto forestry that restores and enhances

habitat and watershed values, reduces

re risk, protects the integrity of the

surrounding public lands and produces

high quality, sustainable wood products.

The family recently donated a working

forest conservation easement on the

property to PFT that will help secure

the projected gains of 75,000 tons

of stored carbon dioxide (CO2) they

plan to achieve with their project. The

emissions reductions will be achieved

by the avoided losses of carbon

sequestration that would have occurred

under a conventional timber harvest

management scheme and by logging

less wood than the forest is growing.

The Phillips Family Tree Farm

now under the stewardship of the

5th generation of Phillips is a 900-

pFts John Bernseinwih phillis Familylandowner Gary Hendrix


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Sonoma Coast Jewel at RiskPFT Works To Conserve Ecologically Vital Stewarts Point Ranch

The Pacic Forest Trust is urgentlyworking to complete the purchaseof Stewarts Point Ranch, an 871-acre

property considered one of the most

mportant unprotected coastal redwood

racts in Sonoma County, California.

With plans to complete the acquisition

ater this year, PFT would hold and

manage the property as a agship

educational center and a working

model demonstrating the kind of forest

tewardship that sustains wood, water,

wildlife and a well-balanced climate.

Among its outstanding features are afull mile of scenic bluffs fronting the

Pacic Ocean, a signicant stretch of the

South Fork of the Gualala River critical

for its salmon habitat and 750 acres of

well-managed, mature coastal Redwood

and Douglas r forest sustained by

ts longtime owners, Arch and Jack

Richardson, through a family trust.

The Richardsons have done a

remendous job managing this

tunningly beautiful landscape and all

he ecological jewels found here, says

Pacic Forest Trust Vice President

of Conservation John Bernstein. Its

not often you have the opportunity to

carry on the stewardship of a forest of

this quality.

PFTs management of Stewarts Point

would resemble that of the Van Eck Forest

where our forestry provides a broad array

of environmental and economic benets

including sustainable production of

wood products, permanently increasedCO2 storage, enhanced biodiversity and

public access for recreation.

Stewarts Point Ranch is part of t

historic Rancho German, one of t

last Mexican land grants. It has a ri

heritage as part of a constellation

Sonoma County lands that have be

owned by members of the Richards

family since about 1870.

In addition to the commitment of PFT

own capital funds, we are very gratef

to have the support of the PackaFoundation and Community Foundati

Sonoma County. Funding to comple

the transaction is being sought fro

the State Coastal Conservancy, Wildl

Conservation Board and the Sonom

County Open Space and Agricultur

Preservation District, along with oth

foundations and individuals committ

to the conservation of these vital Sonom

Coast resources.

Californias scal problems, howev

are making it very difcult to secu

the needed dollars to conserve th

extraordinary ranch and sustain

legacy of stewardship. But yo

generous support can help us comple

this important acquisition. If you a

able to contribute, please contact Jo

Bernstein at 415.561.0700 x12 or em

[email protected] to nd o

how you can help. t

Located only two and a half hours north of San Francisco, the close proximity ofStewarts Point Ranch to the greater Bay Area would enable PFT to demonstratesustainable forestry and offer the public engaging in-the-forest experiences.

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ON THE COVER: The Pacific Forest Trusts innovative forest

and climate strategies are proving influential on Capitol Hill.

Save the Date: Forest Fete 2009

is September 9th in San FranciscoOn Wednesday, September 9, 2009, we will gather once again at the San Francisco Presidio

Golden Gate Club to celebrateForest Fete 2009 . Please plan to join us to honor extraordinary

forest champions, reect back on another year of successful partnerships and to socialize

with friends and colleagues at our annual dinner and awards ceremony. Updates about the

program, special guests and reservation information will be sent via e-mail and posted to our

website at www.PacifcForest.org . To receive more information or to request your name be

added to our e-mail inivation list, please call 415-561-0700 ext. 37.

Stay Connected with New Web Tools

PFT is pleased to offer our community new and expanded options for staying connected with

news about forests and our efforts to conserve them. Our recently launched news blog at

www.ForestsWorkWonders.org features regular updates about our work plus news,

commentary and analysis about conservation, climate, stewardship and other forest issues.

The blog is subscribable and offers readers the opportunity to provide feedback. PFT news

updates also are available via Twitter using our handle PacicForest. Finally, we have

expanded the distribution of our Forest Flash news e-mails by making these quarterly

bulletins available to all. Interested readers can now sign up to receive the Forest Flash on

our website www.PacifcForest.org at the bottom of the home page.

In this Global Crisis, Your Gift

to PFT Makes A Real DifferenceDemand for PFTs programs has never been greater. Were harnessing the power of forests

to help solve the climate crisis. Were bringing added-value to landowners for their efforts to

sustain forests. Were demonstrating how forests sustain us with their gifts of wood, water,

wildlife and a well-balanced climate. This work is only possible thanks to partners and

supporters like you. Please help us respond to the demands of the time with as generous a gift

as you are able. Go online at www.PacifcForest.org/support/index.html to donate today.

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