© Oak on tribal land along Hat Creek in Shasta County, CA. |
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California Wildlife Foundation/California Oaks is grateful to members of California Oaks Coalition that wrote letters of support and testified on behalf of California State Senate Bill 1404. The e-newsletter sent earlier this week reports on SB 1404. It also includes a link to the Spring-Summer 2022 Oaks newsletter, which your organization should also receive in print copy. Please send us an email if you would like additional print copies of this newsletter or any prior newsletters.
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Request for Proposals: Pacific Birds Habitat Joint Venture Small Grants
Application deadline: June 30, 2022
Oak and prairie habitats were selected as a Pacific Birds conservation priority in 2015 because of the substantial loss of these habitats over the past 150 years. Since then, Pacific Birds’ Oak and Prairie Program has helped catalyze a regional movement to restore and conserve the Pacific Northwest oak and prairie habitats that birds need and people love. A strong and growing network of partnerships is working to conserve local strongholds and increase the biodiversity and resiliency of oak and prairie ecosystems throughout their historic range.
Click here to learn more about the Pacific Birds Joint Venture Oak and Prairie funding opportunity, which is available for work in California's Mendocino, Humboldt, and Del Norte counties. (See the map in the request for proposals for more information.)
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© Oak leafing out along Hat Creek in Shasta County, CA. |
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America the Beautiful Request for Proposals
Application deadline: July 21, 2022
The National Fish and Wildlife Foundation (NFWF) America the Beautiful Challenge coordinates funding from multiple federal agencies (Department of the Interior, Department of Agriculture, and Department of Defense) and private philanthropy into a competitive grant program. California Wildlife Foundation/California Oaks learned about this opportunity from Pacific Birds Habitat Joint Venture. If your organization is interested in submitting an oak-focused proposal, please let us know, so we can support your effort. Advanced notice (at least two weeks before the deadline) is always helpful.
The America the Beautiful Challenge will seek to advance conservation and restoration projects that are consistent with the principles outlined in the Conserving and Restoring America the Beautiful report and that focus on at least one of the following core areas of need:
- Conserving and restoring rivers, coasts, wetlands, and watersheds
- Conserving and restoring forests, grasslands, and other important ecosystems that serve as carbon sinks
- Connecting and reconnecting wildlife corridors, large landscapes, watersheds, and seascapes
- Improving ecosystem and community resilience to coastal flooding, drought, and other climate-related threats
- Expanding access to the outdoors, particularly in underserved communities
Applicants are encouraged to develop large landscape scale and/or cross jurisdictional projects that advance existing conservation plans or are informed by Indigenous Traditional Knowledge. America the Beautiful Challenge proposals are due July 21, 2022. Click here to review the Request for Proposals.
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© Photo courtesy of Professor Janet Morrison, The College of New Jersey. |
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Channel Islands and California Native Oak Conservation Action Plan meeting
Thursday, June 30, 1:00 P.M. Pacific time
San Diego Zoo Alliance and California Oaks Coalition member Global Conservation Consortium for Oak will be hosting a Channel Islands and California Native oak meeting focused on refining conservation action plans for six imperiled oak species: Quercus dumosa, Q. cedrosensis, Q. pacifica, Q. tomentella, Q.parvula var. parvula, and Q. engelmannii. Contact Christy Powell of San Diego Zoo Alliance to be added to the distribution list to receive a meeting agenda that will be sent via email.
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"Gertrude's Oaks" proceeds through the now 150 years of the City of Woodland. There is much emotion in this story surrounding the unifying theme of trees. Woodland was born encompassed by valley oak canopy, which the early residents loved but not enough to prevent their removal by the thousands over time. The book surveys effort after effort to build awareness of the importance of these special trees, which now number fewer than 900. It is the story of commitment, passion, civic leadership and the lack thereof and much more. —Tom Stallard, Mayor of Woodland, from the Foreword.
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Gertrude's Oaks: The History & Legacy of Woodland's Urban Forest
Congratulations to David L. Wilkinson, President, Woodland Tree Foundation, for the publication of Gertrude's Oaks: The History & Legacy of Woodland's Urban Forest. Inspired by Gertrude Freeman, a champion of conserving the town's arboreal legacy, the book chronicles the period that spans from the arrival of valley oaks in California's Central Valley an estimated 10,000-15,000 years ago to current efforts of Woodland Tree Foundation to protect and perpetuate valley oaks through planting, education, and partnerships.
Woodland Tree Foundation, a member of California Oaks Coalition, is run by volunteers dedicated to improving Woodland through the planting of trees. The Foundation's motto is Building Community Through Canopy.
The book is available for purchase through Amazon for $30. All proceeds benefit local preservation programs.
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First light Paso Robles © Photo courtesy of Ellen Maldonado.
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Three pathways involving forests and trees offer means by which societies, communities and individual landowners, users and managers can derive more tangible value from forests and trees while addressing environmental degradation, recovering from crises, preventing future pandemics, increasing resilience and transforming economies:
1. Halting deforestation and maintaining forests could avoid emitting 3.6 +/- 2 gigatonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent (GtCO2e) per year between 2020 and 2050, including about 14 percent of what is needed up to 2030 to keep planetary warming below 1.5 °C, while safeguarding more than half the Earth’s terrestrial biodiversity.
2. Restoring degraded lands and expanding agroforestry—1.5 billion ha of degraded land would benefit from restoration, and increasing tree cover could boost agricultural productivity on another 1 billion ha. Restoring degraded land through afforestation and reforestation could cost-effectively take 0.9–1.5 GtCO2e per year out of the atmosphere between 2020 and 2050.
3. Sustainably using forests and building green value chains would help meet future demand for materials – with global consumption of all natural resources expected to more than double from 92 billion tonnes 2017 to 190 billion tonnes in 2060—and underpin sustainable economies.
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Sierra Forest Voice Newsletter
Web Edition
Vol. 15, No. 2, June 8, 2022
Click here to read the web version of Sierra Forest Voice, published by Sierra Forest Legacy. The newsletter includes many interesting reports and resources.
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Black oak at Big Sur. © Photo courtesy of Tom Gaman.
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California Oaks Coalition
Amah Mutsun Land Trust; American River Conservancy; American River Watershed Institute; AquAlliance; Banning Ranch Conservancy; Butte Environmental Council; Canopy; California Institute for Biodiversity (CIB); California Invasive Plant Council (Cal-IPC); California Native Plant Society (CNPS), including CNPS Dorothy King Young Chapter, CNPS San Diego Restoration Committee, and CNPS Sanhedrin Chapter; California Rangeland Trust; California State University Chico Ecological Reserves; California Water Impact Network (C-WIN); California Wilderness Coalition (CalWild); Californians for Western Wilderness (CalUWild); Center for Biological Diversity; Central Coast Heritage Tree Foundation; Chimineas Ranch Foundation; Clover Valley Foundation; Conejo Oak Advocates; Confluence West; Dumbarton Oaks Park Conservancy; Elder Creek Oak Sanctuary; Endangered Habitats Conservancy; Endangered Habitats League; Environmental Defense Center; Environmental Protection Information Center (EPIC); Environmental Water Caucus; Foothill Conservancy; Forests Forever; Friends of Harbors, Beaches and Parks; Friends of the Richmond Hills; Friends of Spenceville; Global Conservation Consortium for Oak; Hills For Everyone; Laguna de Santa Rosa Foundation; Lomakatsi Restoration Project; Los Padres ForestWatch; Lower Kings River Association; Northern California Regional Land Trust; Planning and Conservation League; Redbud Audubon Society–Lake County; Redlands Conservancy; Resource Conservation District of Santa Monica Mountains; River Partners; River Ridge Institute; Rural Communities United; Sacramento Tree Foundation; Santa Clarita Organization for Planning and the Environment (SCOPE); Save Lafayette Trees; Save Napa Valley; Sequoia Riverlands Trust; Shasta Environmental Alliance; Sierra Club Northern California Forest Committee–Oak Woodland Subcommittee; Sierra Club Placer County; Sierra Foothill Conservancy; Tejon Ranch Conservancy; Tending the Ancient Shoreline Hill (TASH); Tuleyome; Tuolumne River Trust; University of California Los Angeles Mildred E. Mathias Botanical Garden; and Woodland Tree Foundation are among the groups partnering with California Oaks to conserve oak woodlands and oak-forested lands for future generations.
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