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Redwoods Matters
July 12, 2022
Students explore fascinating link between redwoods and the bay
Education
Students explore fascinating link between redwoods and the bay
The League’s Explore Your Watershed program helps Oakland elementary school students learn about their local watershed, from the redwood forest in the hills down to San Francisco Bay.

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Check our social media for updates on fire near Mariposa Grove

Wildfire

Check our social media for updates on fire near Mariposa Grove

We are closely monitoring the Washburn Fire in Yosemite, and any impacts to the treasured Mariposa Grove. Check our Twitter and Facebook feeds for current updates, and follow the fire on the League’s live, real-time interactive map of current California wildfires.

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Save Our Sequoias Act introduced in Congress

Legislation

Save Our Sequoias Act introduced in Congress

A bipartisan group of House members has introduced new legislation to stem the massive, unprecedented loss of giant sequoias to catastrophic wildfire. Among other actions, the Save Our Sequoias Act declares an emergency to expedite much-needed work on the ground. Save the Redwoods League has endorsed the legislation.

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I&aposll Go If You Go explores the concept of play in the outdoors

Podcast

I'll Go If You Go explores the concept of play in the outdoors

We’ve explored many ways to play in the redwoods this season. What resonates most, beyond any single activity, is the relationships formed and fortified—with one another, with the outdoors, and with one another in the outdoors. Grace Anderson and Mo Asebiomo share the joy of playing outside under Oakland’s redwoods.

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Five awesome bike rides through the redwoods

Adventure

Five awesome bike rides through the redwoods

Pedaling is an exhilarating way to take in the splendor of redwood forests. Here are five rad rides in the coast redwoods ranging from heart pumpers for mountain bikers to smooth trails for road biking beginners.

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Summer in the Redwoods event caps off CA Parks Week

Gathering

Summer in the Redwoods event caps off CA Parks Week

Hundreds of community members had a great time at Prairie Creek Redwoods State Park during our Summer in the Redwoods event. This celebration of community and inclusion in California State Parks was a terrific way to wrap up the first ever California State Parks Week.

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Check out the latest issue of <em>Redwoods</em>

Good reads

Check out the latest issue of Redwoods

The Lost Coast edition of the League’s Redwoods magazine features our recent efforts to protect Lost Coast Redwoods and restore Tc’ih-Léh-Dûñ to Indigenous guardianship, as well as other updates.

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Donors help us reach fundraising goal for Atkins Place

Protect

Donors help us reach fundraising goal for Atkins Place

Nearly 3,000 donors from across the United States and the globe helped the League raise the funds needed to permanently protect Atkins Place, a vital 453-acre redwood landscape in Mendocino County.

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@savetheredwoods   We got to spend Health and Wellness Day for #CAStateParksWeek in @mounttamalpaisstatepark with @bayarea.galventures 😊 Erin and Monica have deepened their 20-year friendship through hiking Northern California’s glorious trails together. We feel the love—and a sense of well-being after spending time in the lush forest and birdsongs of the Dipsea-Steep Ravine trail 💗 Stay tuned for more clips from this amazing hike. 📍Coast Miwok and Graton Rancheria lands
 
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San Francisco Chronicle
On the importance of protecting land sacred to Native communities
National Geographic (free registration)
 
 
 

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