May 20th at 4PM PDT: The Sierra Club Presents, Forest Protection Forum 
John OBrien John OBrien

May 20th at 4PM PDT: The Sierra Club Presents, Forest Protection Forum 

JDSF is a nearly 50,000 acre expanse of Public land situated within the coast redwood bioregion. Since being purchased by California from Caspar Lumber Company in 1947, JDSF has been, and still is, managed by the state primarily for timber production. This talk will focus on the history of the state's management and the legacy that has left. We will use two independent LiDAR datasets to contextualize present forest conditions within the broader north coast redwood ecosystem and quantitative inventory/harvest data to understand how the forest came to look how it does today. Finally, we will take stock of the current state of climate change to understand how forest resources have and may continue to be impacted for JDSF specifically and the redwood bioregion as a whole.

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CasparFest
Chet Jamgochian Chet Jamgochian

CasparFest

Join as at this year’s CasparFest, a fundraiser for the Caspar Community Center on July 8th. The Mendocino Trail Stewards will have a booth selling copies of our book, This Gem of a Forest, and plenty of hats, shirts, etc. Please drop by to say “hi” and find out the latest in our effort to change the management priorities of Jackson Demonstration State Forest towards restoration and away from commercial logging.

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