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Sanctuary Forest Hike Docent Training Join Sanctuary Forest on Sunday, April 7th for the 2024 Docent Training! This free training will prepare volunteers to represent Sanctuary Forest and help guide one (or more!) of 9 hikes offered this summer. Participants will learn basic first aid, learn how to lead the opening and closing circles, assist hike leaders, keep track of hikers, and more. No previous experience is necessary and speaking in front of the group is not necessarily required. Lunch is...

Sanctuary Forest will hold its 2024 docent training April 7.

Sanctuary Forest is a nonprofit land and water trust located in Whitethorn.

By Noah Levy For 21 years, I’ve been working on land and water conservation in Humboldt County and other parts of California. From 2002 through 2014, I worked for Sanctuary Forest as we developed strategies for water conservation and streamflow restoration in the Mattole River watershed that have now been imitated all over the state. […]

By Tasha McKee McCorkle If you support collaborative science-based solutions for the environment and our local communities, please vote NO on Measure A, this coming election (on or before March 5, 2024). I am a fourth-generation resident of the Whitethorn Valley, grandmother, and respected community leader with more than 20 years of experience pioneering solutions […]

King Range Alliance Pints 4 Non Profits @ Gyppo Ale Mill Come celebrate & support the accomplishments of the King Range Alliance on Friday, October 13 at Gyppo Ale Mill in Shelter Cove from 4:00-6:00pm. This collaboration between BLM King Range, Sanctuary Forest, Friends of the Lost Coast, Mattole Restoration Council and Mattole Salmon Group has advanced public conservation and educational activities for the community. Projects will be showcased with a slideshow of images throughout the even...

“Sanctuary Forest has been working to reverse the impacts of extraction-based land use that has resulted in channel entrenchment, loss of floodplain connectivity, low summer flows, absence of large wood in the stream and riparian corridors and lack of sufficient rearing habitat."

To RSVP to attend the ceremony, contact Sanctuary Forest at 707-985-1087, ext. 9#, or email Anna at anna@sanctuaryforest.org.

The Tolowa Dee-ni’ Nation will present the 16th annual Dee-ni’ Day on Sept. 9 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Howonquet Hall Community Center, 101 Indian Court in Smith River.

Annual Tansy Ragwort Bash Tansy Ragwort is an invasive plant that can be lethal to deer and elk populations. You can help remove it from Sinkyone Wilderness State Park by joining Friends of the Lost Coast, Sanctuary Forest and the North Coast Redwoods District of CA State Parks on Saturday, July 22 from 10a.m. to 1p.m. Meet at the Needle Rock Visitor Center. Tools/gloves are provided and a limited number of $10/hr stipends are available to youth, 12-16 years old. Email justin@lostcoast.org to ...