ForestLife - Fall 2010 Newsletter

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Ft Ft 2010rt & rInnovatIon Is What amerIcaand PFt

Is Good at, sPeaker dan esty says,callInG For Post-electIon clImate actIon

On the eve o the midterm elections, Pacic Forest Trust supporters and partners

athered or our annual celebration o orests and their champions, Forest Fete 2010:

Roots & Revelry. Followin a lively networkin reception, we sat down to dinner to

celebrate Lyme Timber general Partner Peter Stein, our 2010 Forest Champion o the

Year, and Senator Je Merkley (D-Ore.), our Outside-the-Box Award honoree.

It was a estive evenin, but not without a call to action or the work that still lies ahead

in conservin and stewardin our nations orest landscapes.

Without dampenin the ne spirit o the evenin, I do want to say that this is a roup

that needs to step up and respond to [the] challenes, said keynote speaker Dan Esty,

Yale proessor and renowned expert on reen economics, reerrin to the climate

and enery leislation stalled in Conress. I think its a challene or all o us here

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BOaRd OF diReCTORS

Crls Swnlls, Chair

Tot N. Tlor, Vice Chair

Grgor Tbb, Treasurer

anr e. Tttl, Secretary

Lr a. Wbrn, President & Co-CEO

Constnc Bst, Co-CEO

Kn Jnnngs, P.d.

O.h. Prr Llo

Krk mrckwlTot B. Prrng

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Lr a. Wbrn, President & Co-CEO

Constnc Bst, Co-CEO

Gb Ptln, Vice President, Policy and Incentives

mtt Frnbcr, Director o Stewardship

Crstn hrrson, Communications Director

Grrt Jonson, Director o Federal Aairs

Ptr Kozs, Director o Finance & Administration

Pl mson, Director, Caliornia Policy

Pl Swn, P.d., Director o Ecosystem Service Prorams

mgn Wrgo, Klamath-Cascade Proram Director

Ln Co, Development Manaer

Jssc N, Stewardship Manaer

Sn OSllvn, Oce/IT Manaer

Js Brn, Executive Assistant

anton Cono, Policy Analyst

Jss Lck, Senior Conservation AssociateCr mcLgln, Communications Associate

al Pg, Senior Development Associate

Jolnt Zkrzwsk, Accountant

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The Pacic Forest Trust is the leadin non-prot oranization

exclusively dedicated to sustainin Americas vital workin orests

or all their public benets.

2010 The Pacic Forest Trust. All rihts reserved.

Reproduction permitted with attribution.

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toniht to ure out how to re-enae the creative process, to move

us toward what were meant to be celebratin in a risin reen

economy.

Innovation and public-private partnerships will be essential or

the U.S. to develop a clean enery economy, Esty emphasized, and

orest conservation has a critical role to play. Innovation is what

America is ood at. Thisis what this reion is ood

at. What Saudi Arabia is to

oil, we are to innovation. I

think it is not only the key to

climate chane and these

other thins, it is also a

key opportunity or orest

conservation, Esty said.I do want to salute Laurie

and the team here at the

Pacic Forest Trust because I think there has been reat creation

and innovation brouht to bear in the work o PFT.

Esty ured PFT to keep up the ood work but not without

a challene.

Actually, thats not enouh. You really need to redouble youreorts. So I hope that all o you here who are riends o the orani-

zation will step up. Its a critical next couple o months and rankly

a critical next couple o years. The innovations that we need are not

just in technoloy, but also in the mechanisms we use. (Read more

about an innovative policy mechanism PFT is promotin or land

conservation on paes 57.)

Esty wasnt the only one urin Feteuests to help us build

momentum or innovative conservation solutions and partnershipsat the local, state, reional and ederal level.

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Peter Stein was characteristically

modest when told by PFTs president

Laurie Wayburn that he had been selected

to be our 2010 Forest Champion o the Year. I tried to talk her out o

it, he admitted. But then she talked me out o talkin her out o it.

Its a ood thin she did. Our record attendance at Forest Fete 2010was due in no small part to those who came to honor Stein, who has

inked more than 100 innovative conservation partnerships durin his

two decades with the Lyme Timber Company.

Im truly honored and rateul or this reconition, he said, ivin

thanks and credit to his partners in conservation includin his

wie Lisa and to no small amount o luck. This ood ortune was

evident the day he crossed paths with PFT Co-CEO Connie Best in

1990; they soon bean discussin ideas or conservation incentives

or owners o workin orests.

That year, Stein, ormerly o the non-prot Trust or Public Land, had

one to work or The Lyme Timber Company, a private orestland

investor. It really ave me the platorm to experiment with thins

that seemed kinda crazy in 1990.

Thins that seemed kinda crazy nearly 20 years ao included

the workin orest conservation easement (WFCE), an innovativePeTeR STeiN, Continued on pae 7

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abov lt: More than 200 Forest Feteuests lled the golden

gate Club at the Presidio, where Yale University ProessorDan Esty delivered the evenins keynote speech (center).

Cntr poto, lt to rgt: PFT Co-CEO Connie Best with

Proessor Esty, PFT Board Chair Charlie Swindells, PFT

President and Co-CEO Laurie Wayburn and Lyme Timber

general Partner Peter Stein, PFTs 2010 Forest Chamption.

Trn to pgs 89 or a listin o Fetesupporters and more event cover-

ae, includin details about a challene rant rom Nancy Nordho.


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Ts r Prsnt Ob and key members o his cabinet put

considerable muscle into eorts to raise awareness o both the

benets that orests provide and the threats they ace. Every day,

we lose 6,000 acres o this vital open space in the United States

as more people choose to live on the rine o urban areas and in

scenic, rural places. Its a soberin statistic. Yet we were encour-

aed last April when the Pacic Forest Trust was invited to join land

trusts rom across the country at a White House conerence on

Americas great Outdoors.

The meetin, which eatured a personal appearance by President

Obama, kicked o an initiative to coordinate joint-aency conser-

vation eorts and reconnect Americans to the land. A top oal

identied by the President was determinin how the ederal overn-

ment can best advance conservation oals throuh public-private

partnerships and locally supported conservation strateies.

This is the rst time in recent memory that a President o the United

States rom either party has personally enaed with conservationroups on how we can work toether to save our natural heritae,

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ment can be a better partner in these eorts by providin technical

assistance and nancial resources. Participants have emphasizedthe importance o reconnectin children to the outdoors throuh

education, recreation and outdoor learnin. Landowners and

conservationists alike have talked about the need or tax incentives

and undin or conservation easements.

The urent need or action is clear in the new USDA report released

this summer, Private Forests, Public Benets, which estimates

development will consume more than 57 million acres o Americas

privately owned rural orests rom 2000 to 2030. The report hih-

lihts the act that two-thirds o our nations orested landscape is

privately owned and at risk o conversion and development to other

uses such as housin or commercial development.

Multiple economic orces drive that conversion. Even in todays eco-

nomic climate, timber companies are ndin real estate to be more

protable than sellin los. Concurrently, multi-eneration amily

orest owners oten strule to pay hih estate taxes, leavin heirs

little choice but to sell their orest leacies to land developers.

The Private Forests, Public Benets report shows that now, more

than ever, we need to take an all lands approach to manain our

nations orests, whether they are national orests or are under the

stewardship o state or private entities, said Secretary Vilsack ater

the reports release (Land Letter, Au. 19).

While the prospect o losin a orested area the size o Idaho is

a rim one, its encourain to see the administration spotliht a

critical issue that aects rural and urban dwellers alike, Wayburn

said PFT President Laurie Wayburn. Its truly excitin and presents

a tremendous opportunity to scale up rom ocusin on individual proj-ects to conservin our nations workin orests at a landscape level.

President Obama has tasked our members o his cabinet to review

the challenes acin conservation in the 21st century and to

submit their proposed recommendations to him by November 15th

o this year. His advisors include the heads o the Departments o

Interior and Ariculture, the Environmental Protection Aency and

the Council o Environmental Quality. They will work in coordination

with the Departments o Deense, Commerce, Housin and Urban

Development, Health and Human Services, Labor, Transportation,

Education, and the Oce o Manaement and Budet.

In Auust, Secretary o Ariculture Tom Vilsack convened a special

listenin session in New Hampshire ocused on workin orests.

PFT was asked to join the discussion and recommend additional

speakers on the issue. At this and three other sessions around the

U.S. and in a number o private meetins with senior ocials in

Washinton, D.C. PFT has been advocatin or chanes in ederal

policies to promote the conservation o privately owned, workin

orests. And were not alone. Weve been urin our landownin

partners and our allies in conservation to join us in callin upon

policy makers to act now to protect our open spaces.

Since early June, we have held 18 listenin sessions across the

country, Secretary Vilsack told the roup that athered in New

Hampshire. Some common themes have emered. We have heardabout the importance o local partnerships and collaboration in

conservin lare landscapes. We heard how the ederal overn-

Ou vision o th 21st ntuy is n intonntdntwok o opn sp oss th ndsp thtsuppots hthy osysts nd high quity o io ains. uSdaS OPeN SPaCe CONSeRVaTiON STRaTeGy


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communities across the nation. However, to meet the new chal-

lenes acin conservation in the 21st century, both prorams must

be enhanced throuh ull undin and reater fexibility. Expandin

Forest Leacy and LWCF would directly support community-based

conservation by makin ederal undin available to land trusts or

conservation easements or acquisition. Already, more than 40 otherconservation roups and landowners rom across the country have

joined PFT in this campain.

These chanes will allow us to leverae scarce ederal conservation

dollars more eectively, Wayburn says. With increasin development

pressures and the onset o climate chane, we need to re-tool ed-

eral prorams so that conservation oranizations can protect even

larer landscapes.

You can learn more about our recommendations and oer your

support directly by visitin the USDAs IdeaJam website at:

ttp://bt.l/t6Zy or view our letter to key Administration ocials

at: ttp://bt.l/9BRah.

says, addin that these issues were the primary motivation or

PFTs oundin and were rst ocused on in-depth in our publication

Americas Private Forests.

This new report serves as a reminder that orests sustain everyone

who breathes air and depends on the water provided by our nations

orested watersheds, Wayburn says. Now we must press the

administration and our lawmakers to act beore its too late. Its up

to us and our policymakers to make this happen.

leveraGInG the Forest leGacy

ProGram and the land & Water

conservatIon FundThe Forest Leacy Proram and the Land and Water Conservation

Fund (LWCF) are two prorams that have been instrumental in

public-private partnerships in the past, and could have an even

reater impact in the uture. These hihly successul ederal

prorams already have conserved millions o acres o land in

PeTeR STeiN, Continued rom pae 3

public-private conservation tool that mixes private capital, philan-

thropic support and voter-approved public undin. Pioneered by

PFT and championed by Stein, WFCEs have since conserved

millions o acres across the U.S., brinin new revenue to land-

owners and perpetually saeuardin lands rom development.

Whats the next bi conservation innovation on the horizon?

Stein areed it will be critical to increase ederal investment in theconservation o workin lands at a landscape scale, which the

Land and Water Conservation Fund and Forest Leacy Proram

can help accomplish (see above).

Secondly, state and ederal lawmakers must act to create markets

that refect the value o improved orest manaement over time.

Lastly, Stein would like to see more land trusts develop PFTs level

o expertise in the policy arena. I dont know o any land trust inAmerica that has achieved the policy traction that PFT has achieved.

Its created a comortable pathway or more land trusts to enae in

the political process, Stein said.

There are our million members o land trusts in America with

sinicant political orce. And I think that Connie, Laurie, the sta

at the Pacic Forest Trust, and the partners theyve developed have

really created a model or usin their members and their voices to

achieve better public policies at the local, state, and national level.

abov: The Lyme Timber Companys Peter Stein accepts the 2010

Forest Champion award rom PFT Co-Founders and Co-CEOs

Connie Best (let) and Laurie Wayburn. Photo by Toni gauthier

Oppost pg: A view over the Sierra Nevada rom Campstool

Ranch in Calaveras County, Cali. Photo by Chris Harrison


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FOuNdaTiONSBetsy & Jesse Fink Fund

The Bullitt Foundation

Elizabeth Mauhan Charitable Foundation

The Fred gellert Family Foundation

Konsaard-goldman Foundation

Laird Norton Family Foundation

Linden Trust or Conservation

Mararet A. Carill Foundation

Marisla Foundation

Mary A. Crocker Trust

Merck Family Fund

The Moore Charitable FoundationPisces Foundation

Richard & Rhoda goldman Fund

S.D. Bechtel, Jr. Foundation

The Tebbe Family Foundation

BuSiNeSSeSAutodesk, Inc.

The Campbell group

The Collins Companies

Columbia Forest Products

Deutsche Bank

Drew Maran Construction

The Forestland group

green Diamond Resource Company

Hancock Forest Manaement

Humboldt Redwood Company

John Bernstein/Northern Sierra Partnership

Mendocino Redwood Company

Pacic gas and Electric Company

Rosebur Forest Products

Timothy & Billie Taylor/Ecohaus

W.M. Beaty & Associates

iNdiViduaLSAnonymous Donors

Anonymous in honor o Dr. Edar Wayburn

Michael & Jeanne Adams

Henry Alden

Mark Andre

Leslie Balliner in honor o Charlie Swindells

Stephen & Terry Beck

Ralph Benson

Randall Beren

Peter & Janice Berquist in memory o Dr. Edar Wayburn

Eric Thomas Black & Chris HarrisonMarion Bos III & Clara Thomas Bos

Peter Boyer & Terry gamble

Allan & Marilyn Brown in memory o Dr. Edar Wayburn

Carter Brown

Maalen O. Bryant

Helena Brykarz

Leslie Walker Burlock

Donald M. Campbell

Pey C. Campbell

Norm & Portia Christensen in memory oDr. Edar Wayburn

Terry & Barbara CollinsAmanda Cundi

Christy & Paul Curtis

Henry & Verilia Dakin

John DavisSandy & Cathy Dean in memory o Dr. Edar Wayburn

Phil Detrich

Kate Ditzler & Stuart gasner

Peter & Happy Esty

Howell Feruson

James P. Finerty in memory o Dr. Edar Wayburn

John & Laura Fisher

Thomas Francis

Tim Frank

Steve Frisch

Daniel & Linda geballe

Dr. Keith gilless

David Frenznick Bettina glennin

Michael gallaher & Ruth Shapiro

Lorraine gallard

Naomi geller in memory o Dr. Edar Wayburn

Martin grin

Tom Harrison

John & Mary Ellen Harte

Art Harwood

Ann Hatch

Perry Heelner in memory o Jamie grodsky

Russell K. HenlyMaurice & Janice Holloway

John & Mary Hooper in memory o Dr. Edar Wayburn

Ken Jennins

Henrik Jones & Barbera Brooks

Marianna Kauman in memory o Dr. Edar Wayburn; LewisWayburn; Marian Kauman; and Dr. Richard Wayburn.

Stean Schinziner & Sally Kellman

Richard Kuno & Robert Williams in memory oDr. Edar Wayburn

William Lana

Chris Larson

Susan Lashley in memory o Derek van EckKonrad J. Lieel

Samuel Livermore

Perry & Tricia Lloyd

Dixon Lon

Christopher Mann

Felicia Marcus

Bill & Mary Marre

Amy Meyer in memory o Dr. Edar Wayburn

Wende Williams Micco

Peter Miller

Martha Nelson

Nancy NordhoAlex Pae

Juliet Pae

Kate Panawek

gabe Petlin

Tiany Potter

Erik Rinelber

Marit & Richard Roos-Collins

James Rinehart & Carol Finkelstein

Tim Robards

Je Romm

Martin Rosen in memory o Dr. Edar Wayburn

Leo Roy

Joan Rubenson

Hal Salwasser

Lex & Christine Sant

Marlene Sarnat in memory o Dr. Edar WayburnSusannah Schroll

Nicole Schuetz

Walter & Jeanne Sedwick

Brian Shillinlaw

William & Wendy Snyder

Kristen Steck

William & Claudia Stelle

Peter Stein & Lisa Cashdan in honor oDr. Edar Wayburn

Dee Swanhuyser

geore A. Thompson

Karie & David Thomson

Mike Tolleson

Nancy Tompkins

Frank & Francis Tsai

Harry A. Turner

Andrea Tuttle

Nita Vail

Steve Van Landinham & Matt Ogrady

Brooks Walker III

Brooks Walker, Jr.

Kirby Walker

Lindsey WalkerSandy Walker

Mean Waro & Dan Olstein

Julie Weisman

Darcy Wheeles

Searle Whitney

Dou Wickizer

Bill Wilkinson

Elizabeth Wroblicka

Allene Zaner

Mitchell Zeemont

Delphine Zeuli

iN-KiNdAnchor Brewin Company

Ansel Adams gallery

Caliornia Snow

Cowirl Creamery

Eiht Arms Cellars

Harney & Sons Fine Teas

Husch Vineyards

John Bentleys Restaurant

Kimpton Hotels

Madrona Vineyards

Method Products

Navarro Vineyards

Pataonia

Phillips Bros. Mill

Ravenswood Winery

Saintsbury Winery

San Francisco Hat Company

San Francisco Symphony

SOAR Infatables

Soluri Meserve, A Law Corporation

Sorensens Resort

Sports BasementSteve Van Landinham & Matt Ogrady

Tom Lupo & Laura Harvey

Ulrike Pirrun

thank you. We GrateFully acknoWledGe the FolloWInG donors

Whose FInancIal GIFts and PledGes From January 1, 2010 to

october 7, 2010 have helPed make our Work PossIble.


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Pt daa PassIon For natural

landscaPes leads to

leGacy For conservatIon

Investor Peter Davis knows at least two thins or sure. The British-

born climber, backpacker and avid outdoorsman is dedicated toconservin the natural landscapes he loves.

And Im not immortal, he quips. So it was clear to me that

once my childrens and randchildrens needs are met, I want to

support oranizations that are doin ood thins or the world,

FOReST FeTe, Continued rom pae 3

Nnc Sknnr Noro, the 2009 Association o Fundraisin

Proessionals Outstandin Philanthropist o the Year, came to

issue a challene at Fete. Donate now, said PFT Board Chair

Charlie Swindells, announcin her it, and Nancy will enerously

match your it two to one, up to $15,000.

Nordho, a native o Seattle, has been a enerous PFT supporter

since 2004. She comes rom a amily with a lon history o enerous

philanthropy and is particularly interested in historic and environ-

mental preservation, sustainable development and support o the

rural economy.

Were so rateul to Nancy or this enerous it and to our other

supporters who answered her call, said PFT President Laurie

Wayburn (pictured riht, speakin to Nordho). Its clear this is

the time to intensiy our eorts. We can meet the challenes

ahead with support rom Nancy and others who join her call or

matchin its.

both today and ater Im one. As part o this philanthropic vision,

Davis recently made provisions in his estate plannin to leave a

substantial bequest to the Pacic Forest Trust.

My passions have always been to conserve mountains, orests,

oceans, beaches our natural landscapes. So when I contribute

to charitable oranizations, thats the eld theyre in. The Pacic

Forest Trust ts very rmly into that, he said. PFT is marketin

an incentive-based stratey that is ood or the earth, ood or the

public, ood or the environment and ood or landowners. I know

and I like the mission o PFT, as well as its people and their approach

to their work. Theyre doin a reat job.

Now a resident o Tiburon, Caliornia, the investor has been very

savvy about makin planned its that reduce his tax burden while

supportin causes he believes in. In act, he has delivered several

talks about the various ways successul people can structure

planned charitable its such as appreciated stock, land or cash

either as outriht its, bequests, or in trusts that yield annuity

payments to a donor or their partner throuhout their lietime.

Such planned ivin allows donors to leave money or assets to

a nonprot as part o their leacy. It can also provide a way to invest

money so that the donor receives benets durin his/her lie andthen bequeaths the remainin unds to the nonprot. Various

nancial instruments can be adapted to each donors needs. To

learn more about how you can support PFT throuh planned ivin,

contact our Development Oce at 415-561-0700 ext. 37.

Forest Fete 2010was presented with the enerous support o

Mendocino Redwood Company, Humboldt Redwood Company, and

many other businesses and individuals acknowleded on pae 8.

See all our Fetesupporters listed at:www.pcfcorst.org/orstt/orstt10.tl.


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sa vaeamnt

AppconservatIon corrIdor WIll

Protect natIonally sIGnIFIcant

Watershed reGIon In calIF.

The Pacic Forest Trust (PFT) is makin sinicant proress toward

creatin a unique conservation corridor in the wildlie-rich Sierra

Valley, the larest alpine valley in North America.

This summer two key state aencies the Caliornia Wildlie Con-

servation Board and Sierra Nevada Conservancy approved und-

in or two o the conservation easement projects we are developin

in Sierra Valley. The valley is located north o Lake Tahoe where the

headwaters o the Feather River orm the most extensive wetlands

ecosystem in the Sierra Nevada.

The projects are strateically located where upland oreststransition to meadowland on the valley foor, ensurin unbroken

continuity amon these diverse habitats needed by many species

and protectin the fow o clean water or millions o Caliornians.

Once these easement projects are completed, PFT will have

conserved 4,470 acres in partnership with ve ranchers in the

Sierra Valley, which is located at the southern tip o our broader

Klamath-Cascade ocal area. Our conservation sta also is workin

to establish conservation easements on an additional 2,683 acres o

neihborin land in the area.

Were creatin a lare conservation corridor o well-manaed

orest and ranchlands in an ecoloically sinicant area, says

Mean Waro, Klamath Cascade Proram Director. Closin on

these easements will represent real proress in our eorts to

conserve this southwestern section o Sierra Valley and its

water resources, which support a rich array o plants and wildlie,complement downstream conservation and restoration projects,

and help sustain local ranchers and the community as a whole.

Our work in Sierra Valley is establishin a much-needed brake on

encroachin development in the reion, a stones throw rom Reno,

Nev., and a popular spot or second homes and ranchettes. It also

assures wildlie an unbroken habitat corridor rom the valley foor

up to the orested ridetop.

Acquirin the unds to close these easements represents sinicant

momentum in our work to assure a sustainable, natural resource-

based uture or this beautiul and productive valley and the larer

Klamath Cascade reion, said PFT Co-CEO Connie Best.

lnkn Ft, lan uan spa t cmat can

PFt leveraGes envIronmental

QualIty laWs to saFeGuard

Forests clImate beneFIts

Deorestation here and abroad is responsible or a staerin 40percent o the excess man-made carbon dioxide in the atmosphere

today. The orests that remain now serve as a critical climate

deense, saely absorbin and storin reenhouse ases that uel

climate chane by trappin heat in the atmosphere.

Which is yet another key reason why the Pacic Forest Trust and

so many others are urently workin to reduce or mitiate or the

neative impacts o orest development and conversion now.

In addition to our eorts at the ederal level, PFT is workin in

several states to mitiate emissions rom orest loss by leverain

existin state environmental reulations. In states where such

environmental quality laws dont exist or where reulators need

additional leal directives to act, were also supportin leislation

that reconizes and mitiates the environmental and climate

impacts o development and associated orest loss in particular.

Read more about where were workin and the stratey or our

state mitiation work on our blo: ttp://bt.l/hg9ar.


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The accreditation process enabled us to both assess the robustness oour policies and practices and improve urther with eedback rom our

peers, said PFT Board Chair Charlie Swindells. Accreditation shows

we can walk the talk and uphold the hihest standards throuhout

our oranization.

The Land Trust Accreditation Commission, based in Saratoa Sprins,

N.Y., awards the accreditation seal to community institutions that meet

national quality standards or protectin important natural places and

workin lands orever. More inormation on the accreditation proram isavailable on the Commissions website, www.lntrstccrtton.org.

The Land Trust Accreditation Commission, an independent proram

o the Land Trust Alliance, announced this summer that the Pacifc

Forest Trust has been awarded accredited status.

Accredited land trusts meet national quality standards or protectin

important natural places and workin lands orever, said Commis-

sion Executive Director Tammara Van Ryn. The accreditation seal

lets the public know that the accredited land trust has underone an

extensive, external review o the overnance and manaement o its

oranization and the systems and policies it uses to protect land.

The Pacifc Forest Trust was one o 12 land trusts rom across the

country to be awarded accreditation in Auust. These oranizations

join 93 other land trusts out o more than 1,750 such conserva-tion roups in the United States awarded accreditation since the

frst oranizations were desinated in the all o 2008.

The award particularly distinuishes PFT by virtue o its breadth,

coverin all areas in which PFT works. It specifcally reconizes

three perormance areas: the development, acquisition and man-

aement o conservation easements; transactions conservin lands

or transer into public ownership; and stewardship o lands PFT

owns and manaes.

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