Climate Forests Rally June 26

Posted on by surova123

You are invited to join Pacific Northwest Forest Climate Alliance, Illinois Valley Sierra Club, Williams Community Forest Project, Sustainable Rogue Valley, RCC Earth Club, and others on Monday, June 26 from noon to 2 pm at Alba Park in Medford for a rally and celebration in support of old growth and mature forests as climate solutions. There will be music, speakers, art, puppets, banners, and representatives from the offices of Senators Wyden and Merkley. Please join us for a fun event in support of our beloved forests!

For more information, contact info@williamscommunityforestproject.org.

Forest Defense Is Climate Defense!

Fools & Dreamers: Regenerating A Native Forest

Posted on by Barb Allen

From the makers of the film: “We’ve made the film free to view because we want the important messages of land regeneration, nature connection, and living more simply to reach as many people as possible.

We hope you’re as inspired by the story of Hinewai Reserve.. as we are. Please feel free to share the link with anyone you feel would be interested.

Enjoy the film!”

Fools & Dreamers: Regenerating a Native Forest is a 30-minute documentary telling the story of Hinewai Nature Reserve, on New Zealand’s Banks Peninsula, and its kaitiaki/manager of 30 years, botanist Hugh Wilson. When, in 1987, Hugh let the local community know of his plans to allow the introduced ‘weed’ gorse to grow as a nurse canopy to regenerate farmland into native forest, people were not only skeptical but outright angry – the plan was the sort to be expected only of “fools and dreamers”.

Now considered a hero locally and across the country, Hugh oversees 1500 hectares resplendent in native forest, where birds and other wildlife are abundant and 47 known waterfalls are in permanent flow. He has proven without doubt that nature knows best – and that he is no fool.