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the services like carbon sequestr

that our forests provide. It will

basing our policies and prac

on the most comprehensive sc

possible, including our impro

understanding of the structure

function of forest ecosystem

will mean restoring and mainta

ecologically sustainable cond

where theyve been lost. It will

reestablishing credible public

management agencies and polici

Sustaining our forests will re

aggressive investment in resand monitoring programs, Fra

concludes. And it will require cre

third-party assessments of fores

management policies, including

applied to federally owned fores

Franklin remains humble abou

accomplishments, hastening to

that his achievements have all

collaborative. Ive had an incre

cadre of creative and persoassociates who have been critic

my creativity and success. t

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ForestLifeForests for Work. Forests for Life.

The Newsletter of

The Pacifc Forest TrustBoard of Directors

Walter Sedgwick, Co-Chair

Timothy N. Taylor, Co-Chair

William W. Stelle, Jr., Vice-Chair

Charles Swindells, Treasurer

Andrea E. Tuttle, Secretary

Laurie A. Wayburn,President

William H. Banzhaf

Constance Best

Norman L. Christensen, Jr.

O.H. Perry Lloyd

Kirk Marckwald

Timothy B. Pirrung

James D. Range

Hal Salwasser

Gregory Tebbe

William Hutton, Counsel

StaffLaurie A. Wayburn,President

Constance Best,Managing Director

Randall Beren, Communications Director

John Bernstein, VP Conservation

Anton Chiono, Policy Associate

Andrea Deleon, Administrative Assistant

lly Ericsson, National Policy Representative

att Fehrenbacher, Stewardship Foresterristine Harrison, Communications Manager

Rachael Katz, Policy Project Manager

eter Kodzis, Director of Finance & Admin.

Jessica Neff, Stewardship Associate

Sean OSullivan, Ofce/IT Manager

Alex Page, Development Associate

onathan Remucal, Stewardship Manager

mily Russell-Roy, NE Policy Project Manager

ole Schuetz, Development Mgr./Foundations

Paula Swedeen, Senior Policy Analyst

ale Thornburgh, Ph.D., Senior Forester

CA Registered Professional Forester #430)

ve Van Landingham, Development DirectorJolanta Zakrzewski, Accountant

ditors: Randall Beren & Christine Harrison

Art Director: Randall Beren

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

working forests for all their public benets.

2008 The Pacic Forest Trust. All rights reserved.Reproduction permitted with attribution.

JerryFranklin

Often called the guru of old growthforests and the father of newforestry, University of Washington

Professor of Forest Ecology Jerry

Franklin, Ph.D, is known far and

wide for his work developing a new

forest management paradigm one

that promotes ecological as well as

economic objectives.

Franklin broke new ground by

uniting ecosystem science with forest

management, creating what he calls

ecological forestry a management

practice that recognizes the complexweb of life in forests and its important

contributions to society.

In recognition of these achievements,

the Pacic Forest Trust (PFT) honored

Franklin with the 2008 Sequoia Award

for Lifetime Achievement at this years

Forest Fete.

The award means a great deal to me

because it comes from an organizationfully engaged in bringing the principles

of science and conservation to the

development and implementation

of forest policy, Franklin says.

This makes the award much more

meaningful than were it to have come

from my academic peers. Coming from

the Pacic Forest Trust, it means my

activities have had real and positive

consequences for forest conservation.

In both his research and teaching,

Franklins focus is now aimed at

reestablishing stewardship as the central

tenet of forestry. Sustaining our forests,

he explains, is going to require efforts

across a very broad array of fronts.

It will mean facilitating the continued

stewardship of private forests. It will

mean developing new ways of valuing

Franklin on ForestFather of New Forestry Speaks AboutSequoia Award and Need for Stewardshi


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Everyone Wins with WoodsTrailblazing Landowners, Visionary Lawmaker and Leading

Ecologist Honored at Annual Dinner and Awards Ceremony

Forest Trust and a roomful of people

like you who are dedicated to our

forests, Franklin observed. I believeif we understand forest ecosystems and

fully understand their complexity and

beauty, we will do the right thing.

The Phillips Brothers Mill and Tree

Farm accepted the Forest Champion

of the Year award honoring their

groundbreaking work as the rst

family forest owners to enter into a

working forest conservation easement

partnership with PFT. Our forest

cannot be subdivided or broken up.

It will be harvested in perpetuity

as a biodiverse, multi-aged forest,

declared Gary Hendrix, the familys

spokesman. I want to thank the

Pacic Forest Trust for helping us

realize a vision of conserving our land

so it could be passed on in perpetuity

to future generations of Phillips.

Senator Debbie Stabenow (MI)

received the Outside-the-Box Awardfor raising awareness of the climate

benets of forests in Congress. In

acceptance video, she commend

PFTs economic model for rewardlandowners who manage their fore

for climate benets. I believe

need to make sure that there

strong incentives for sustainable for

management practices and that we

tackle global warming by having th

incentives in place, she said.

Speaker of the House Pelosi, alo

with Senators Boxer and Feinstein, s

representatives who each presen

PFT with a meritorious citation laud

our 15 years of service protecting a

promoting working forests.

Forest Fete 2008 was presented w

the generous support of Mendoc

Redwood Company, Pacic Gas

Electric Company and dozens m

businesses and individuals. t

View Fete photos and video

at: www.pacicforest.org/forestfete/forestfete08.htm

Tonight we have tree huggersand tree loggers, landownersand regulators, foresters and

conservationists, bankers and birders,

scientists and surfers, Democrats and

Republicans every one of us united

behind winning with woods.

With that rallying introduction, Pacic

Forest Trust Managing DirectorConnie Best welcomed supporters to

Forest Fete 2008: Everyone Wins

with Woods.

Renowned conservation biologist

Thomas Lovejoy, who gave the

evenings keynote speech on climate

change, began the program praising

PFTs forest stewardship principles.

The whole world needs to be

managing their forests in the way the

Pacic Forest Trust is encouraging,

asserted Lovejoy.

Pioneering forest ecologist Jerry

Franklin, who received the Sequoia

Award for Lifetime Achievement (see

opposite page), shared an optimistic

vision for the future of forests. It

really lls me with hope when we

have organizations like the Pacic(from left) Gary, Gregg and Allison Hendrix and Kathy, Denice and Ed Smith aPhillips family members proud to be honored as Forest Champion of the Year.

Fete GuestsCarol Finkelsteinand Sandy Dean


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During the Redwood Summer of

1990, thousands of activists gathered

in Northern California, chaining

themselves to trees and blockingbulldozers to protest unsustainable

logging. People were polarized.

Extremism ruled. PFT founders

Laurie Wayburn and Connie Best met

soon after and conceived of a new

approach to forest conservation.

We wanted to start an organization

where people met on the same

side of the table, instead of acrossbarricades, Best recalls. Maybe this

all seemed radical, improbable. But

our ideas began to click with many

people: forest owners, managers,

investors and conservationists who

joined with us to form the Pacic

Forest Trust .

Today, those alliances form the

backbone of PFTs innovativeapproach to conserving forests for

all their ecological and economic

benets. For our 15th anniversary,

Wayburn and Best reect on the

evolution of PFT into the leading

non-prot advocating for working

forests and their public benets.

What established the Pacific ForestTrust as an innovator?

Laurie Wayburn: We started by

developing strategies to wrestle with

the fact that economics shape the

forest landscape. When we began,

forests were valued for timber and

land development a reality that

led to the unintended consequence

of forest loss and depletion

therefore, wanted to harness n

markets to promote practice

would result in more abundant

with healthier ecosystems. We n

economic incentives that would r

landowners for their conservati

stewardship efforts. We also s

opportunity to apply groundbr

new ndings in forest ecology to

management in ways that would

both landowners and forests.

Connie Best: One of our rs

was to develop a new tool that

conserve managed forestlands an

landowners tax incentives. The

was the Working Forest Conser

Easement, which we promo

landowners and the conser

community and that is now in w

Best & Wayburn WConservation, Commerce, Par

Irvine & LTAHonor

Wayburn ForClimate Work

PFT President Laurie Wayburn hasreceived two highly prestigious awardsthis year in recognition of her andPFTs pioneering climate work.

n June, Wayburn was named one ofsix recipients of the 2008 James IrvineFoundation Leadership Award and

received $125,000 to support PFTsclimate policy work in California.

We believe Laurie Wayburnsnnovative, cooperative approachto conservation and climate changeaction will make a real difference inCalifornians lives, says Jim Canales,rvine Foundation president and CEO.

n September, Wayburn received theLand Trust Alliances Kingsbury BrowneConservation Leadership Award and

was named a fellow at the Lincolnnstitute of Land Policy.

While others were simply thinkingabout carbon credits, Laurie and herteam were designing a credible, state-adopted system for measuring andselling emissions reductions fromorests that is now considered amodel, says Russ Shay, LTA director of

public policy.t

Wayburn andLTA President

Rand Wentworth


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cross the country. From our founding,

weve also been developing policy and

market frameworks that reward forest

andowners for providing ecosystem

ervices. The success of these efforts

as been validated by Californias

pproval of forest carbon sequestration

rojects as an early-action measure to

meet climate goals and by the Van Eck

Forest Projectbecoming the rst such

roject registered in the state. Selling

missions reductions from the project

s demonstrating that sustainably

managed forests can offer landowners

eal nancial returns.

What has fueled PFTs growth?

CB: Its taken good ideas, great

artnerships and, frankly, persistence.

LW:We focused on positive solutions

o complex problems. We found

synergies between commerce and

conservation. And, when we added the

climate benets of forests, we achieved

a triple win for landowners, forests and

the public.

Your work with PFT is a labor of love.

What makes it all worthwhile?

CB: Its gratifying to see the tools

weve developed take on a life of

their own. Hundreds of thousands of

acres of forestland around the country

are being safeguarded with Working

Forest Conservation Easements. Many

partners are working with us across the

U.S. to harness the power of working

forests to solve the climate crisis.

Thats very exciting to us.

LW: And its incredibly rewarding

every time were out on one of the

properties weve worked with a

landowner to conserve. Its a wonderful

feeling to know these forests are going

to be well-managed, beneting people

and nature for generations to come.

What is your vision for the

organization going forward?

CB: The challenges of sustaining

our forests are only increasing in this

turbulent time of global change. Our

vision is for PFT to continue expanding

our partnerships so together we can

create a society that values forests for

all they provide wood, water, wildlifeand a well-balanced climate.

LW: The value of the whole forest is

far greater than the sum of its parts.

This is a fundamental shift in the way

people value forests. So, we intend

to continue building on this model in

order to retain, sustain and gain from

forests in ways that benet us all. t

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h 15 Years of Workhips and Persistence Define PFT

The Pacic Forest Trust is probe celebrating 15 years of del

innovative conservation and csolutions. Since our founding, made great progress enAmericas working forestssafeguarded and strengthened fbenet of generations to come

But there is much work yet tosuccessfully tackle new conserchallenges in the West and prstrong climate policies nationall

Thats why PFTs Board of Direc

sponsoring a 15 Year AnniveDonor Challenge. With support, were aiming to kick next 15 years with expandeenhanced partnerships that will us to better Retain, Sustain anfrom Americas working forests

To help us meet these goalBoard spurred by sizeablefrom Gregory and Daphne TebCharles Swindells has gene

offered to double the size o2008 gift by up to $150,000 $10,000 for every year wevechampioning forests.

So, please, celebrate our past byto our future. Donate today bythe attached envelope to maigift. Or give online at:

www.PacifcForest

Anniversar

Challengdoubles

Your Gift

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Klamath-Cascade CollaborationPartnerships Helping Conserve Sierra Valley and Monument Lan

PFT last year, explains why he and

his neighbors are looking to easement

partnerships to conserve their lands

and way of life:

With the pressure for subdividing and

second homes in the mountains, we

have to make decisions that will enable

us to pass along our lands to the next

generation, says Turner. With land

values the way they are, the properties

wont survive settlement of an estate.

But by conserving our lands with

groups like the Pacic Forest Trust, we

can all go forward.

If we can create a big conservation

circle around this valley, it would make

me so happy, adds Linda Sanford,

whose Valley View Angus Ranch was

the rst Sierra Valley property to be

conserved by PFT 11 years ago. Its a

critical zone and its worth saving.

Were also fullling our promise

to realize a more complete, more

fully conserved Cascade-Siskiyou

National Monument (CSNM).

By years end, the Bureau of Land

Management (BLM) will

purchased from PFT 1,000 acr

land within the CSNM Planning

This rst transfer of private land

the public CSNM uses federal

PFT helped secure with the supp

Senators Wyden, Smith and Fei

and the Soda Mountain Wilde

Council. The tracts include a m

the famed Pacic Crest Trail an

adjacent to old-growth stands a

owned by BLM and in the Monu

PFT currently holds 4,720 acr

forestlands within the CSNM Pla

Area, all acquired to protect the intof the only national monument ded

to biodiversity. These threatened

were bought with lead funding fro

Meyer Memorial Trust and the B

and Weeden foundations, among o

As additional federal funds be

available, we will continue to tr

more of these lands to the BLM

inclusion in the Monument. t

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The Pacic Forest Trust and ourpartners are advancing effortsto conserve thousands of acres in

the remarkably biodiverse Klamath-

Cascade eco-region, a key PFT focalarea. Comprising an arc that extends

from Oregons Klamath River basin

across Californias Cascade peaks and

into the northern Sierra, the region

supports thousands of families who

earn their livelihoods working their

lands and provides essential wood,

water and wildlife habitat.

In Californias Sierra Valley where

weve already conserved 2,700-plus acres of forest and ranch lands

in partnership with three different

families PFT has joined with

several more landowners to design

working forest conservation easement

(WFCE) partnerships that will create

a conservation corridor of more than

5,600 acres where the headwaters of

the Feather River forms the largest

alpine wetland in North America.

Sierra Valley landowner Russell

Turner, who completed a WFCE with

Landowners seeking to conserv

their forests for the benet

future generations will continu

to have a generous tax incentiv

to do so with the renewal an

expansion of the 2008 Far

Bill. The incentive, which

retroactive to January 2008 an

extends through 2009, rais

the deduction for donating a

easement from 30% of a donor

income in any one year to 50

It also increases the number years over which one can ta

deductions from six to 16. Fo

more information about WFC

and tax incentives, contact Joh

Bernstein at 415.561.0700.

Landowners and PFT easement partners Russell Turner and Bob Copren (center)show Trout Unlimiteds John Williamson (left) and local forester Bob Suter (right)the lay of the land dur ing a recent conservation tour of the Sierra Valley.

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Thank YouWe gratefully acknowledge the following donors

whose financial gifts and pledges from May 2008 to

October 2008 have helped make our work possible

Timothy and Billie TaylorGeorge and Anita Thompson

Steve ThompsonKarie and David ThomsonSteve Van LandinghamKirby Walker and Paul DanielsonLeslie Walker Burlock

and Walter BurlockBrooks Walker, Jr.Laurie A. WayburnEdgar WayburnGeorgia WestdahlGregory and Daphne Tebbe

Businesses

AutodeskBaldwin, Blomstrom,

Wilkinson & AssociatesCalifornia Ski Industry Association

The Campbell GroupCantor CO2eThe Collins CompaniesESRIGreen Mountain Energy CompanyHancock Timber Resource Group

K&L GatesMendocino Redwood CompanyMMA Sustainable Land Investments

MTR WesternPacific Gas and Electric Company

Port Blakely Tree FarmsR&A Investment ForestryRedtree PropertiesSoluri, Emrick & MeserveSullivan & WorcesterTrillium Asset Management

WM Beaty & Associates

FoundationsAyrshire FoundationBella Vista Foundation

Bullitt FoundationEnergy Foundation

James Irvine FoundationKongsgaard-Goldman FoundationLaird Norton Family FoundationMarisla FoundationMoore Charitable Foundation

Morgan Family FoundationRobertson FoundationS.D. Bechtel, Jr. FoundationSan Francisco FoundationWeeden Foundation

Guests from Sacramento arriving a

Fete 2008 enjoyed a comfortabl

carbon ride on one of the nations p

motorcoaches thanks to a ge

contribution from MTR Western,

the evenings supporting sponsors

The west coast-based motorcoach operator already is

choice for tour groups, sports

and others seeking style and c

when they travel. Now the eets

the-line features include a net

negative carbon footprint achiev

a combination of 74 state-of-

cleaner-burning diesel vehicles an

metric tons of emissions red

from PFTs Van Eck Forest Project

Were the only charter motocarrier in North America I know

mitigates more than 100 percent

emissions it creates by purchasing

offsets, says Darren Berg, Chief Ex

Ofcer of MTR Western. Our

support of PFT and the Van Eck

Project is compelling evidence

commitment toward being a resp

environmental citizen.t

RidingClean &Gre

withMTR Wester

IndividualsMichael and Jeanne Adams

Ralph BensonJohn BernsteinPeter Boyer and Terry GambleSamuel H. Brown

Lewis and Sheana ButlerEd and Kerry CooperPeter DavisKate Ditzler and Stuart GasnerCaroline DonsboughKatie Falkoff

Nancy FardelmannDouglas FergusonJames P. Finerty

Betsy and Jesse FinkRachel FletcherRobert Flint, Jr.

Michael GallagherKass Green and Gene ForsburgEdmund Hayes, Jr.George HelmholzMaurice and Janice Holloway

Joe HoughtelingBennett JohnstonJohn LaughlinKonrad J. LiegelDixon Long

Gregory E. Loniewski, Jr.Ross MacWhinneyDrew Maran and Sandra SlaterKirk Marckwald and Christina DesserSylvia McLaughlinDan McNevin

Osha MeserveAmy MeyerDouglas MillerWes MillerStephen C. and Amanda MorrisTheresa Nelson

Jennifer Niedermeyer

Nancy NordhoffGilman and Marge OrdwayBen PattonTimothy and Ulrike Pirrung

Gary C. RynearsonWalter and Jeanne SedgwickElizabeth SedgwickEd SmallSteven A. SmallPieter Smith

Linda SnyderCharlie Swindells


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The Presidio

1001-A OReilly Avenue

San Francisco, CA 94129

www.PacifcForest.org

415.561.0700

ON THE COVER: A small sampling of the faces and places

that have helped make PFTs 15 years of service so special.

Standing Up for Climate BenefitsPFT Backing Holistic, No Net Loss Approach for Forests

closer to implementing its landmark

climate legislation, Assembly Bill

32. Were encouraged by the AB 32

proposed scoping plans inclusion of

forests as a key sector. The proposedplan incorporates our recommended

sector-wide approach to monitoring

and managing the carbon stored in

Californias forests, including a policy

of no net loss of forest carbon

benets. It also calls for accurate

accounting of forest-based emissions,

which is especially critical as fo

can affect other sectors inclu

land use, construction, energy

transportation.

The proposed plan also includ

role for the marketing of forest ca

emissions reductions, or offsets,

give landowners a nancial incenti

manage their forests for climate ga

We continue to work with Califor

Climate Action Registry in develo

a version 2.0 of their accou

protocols to ensure those emis

reductions are permanent, veriand additional to what can be achi

with business-as-usual practices.

Our successes in California serve

guide for our policy work in Washin

State, the mid-Atlantic and sou

states, as well as the Western Cli

Initiative and the Regional Greenh

Gas Initiative, says PFT Pres

Laurie Wayburn. Were taking

we learn from these efforts acroscountry to advance a strong nat

framework for forest climate po

in collaboration with landowners

other climate stakeholders.

Forests can work to keep our climatecool. But only if we stop their lossand conserve, manage and restore

them so that they absorb and store

more carbon. Thats why the PacicForest Trust is building strong climate

policies and robust markets that will

utilize forests as a key tool in the effort

to combat global warming.

Weve had signicant success in

California this year as the state moves

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