Standing Up for Climate Benefits

PFT Backing Holistic, ‘No Net Loss’ Approach for Forests

F orests can work to keep our climate

cool. But only if we stop their loss
and conserve, manage and restore
them so that they absorb and store
more carbon. That’s why the Pacific
Forest Trust is building strong climate
policies and robust markets that will
utilize forests as a key tool in the effort
to combat global warming.
We’ve had significant success in
California this year as the state moves
PHOTO BY ANDREA DELEON
closer to implementing its landmark
climate legislation, Assembly Bill
32. We’re encouraged by the AB 32
proposed scoping plan’s inclusion of
forests as a key sector. The proposed
plan incorporates our recommended
sector-wide approach to monitoring
and managing the carbon stored in
California’s forests, including a policy
of “no net loss” of forest carbon
benefits. It also calls for accurate
accounting of forest-based emissions,
which is especially critical as forests
can affect other sectors including
land use, construction, energy and
transportation.
The proposed plan also includes a
role for the marketing of forest carbon
emissions reductions, or “offsets,” that
give landowners a financial incentive to
manage their forests for climate gains.
We continue to work with California’s
Climate Action Registry in developing
a “version 2.0” of their accounting
protocols to ensure those emissions

reductions are permanent, verifiable,

and additional to what can be achieved
with business-as-usual practices.

“Our successes in California serve as a

guide for our policy work in Washington
State, the mid-Atlantic and southern
states, as well as the Western Climate
Initiative and the Regional Greenhouse
Gas Initiative,” says PFT President
Laurie Wayburn. “We’re taking what
we learn from these efforts across the
country to advance a strong national
INTERNATIONAL INFLUENCE: A delegration of Chinese forestry officials led framework for forest climate policy,
by Zhou Shaozhou (third from right) and German advisors from GTZ met with in collaboration with landowners and
PFT’s policy team in October to learn about our forest carbon policy initiatives. other climate stakeholders.”

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 ForestLife
Forests for Work. Forests for Life.
The Newsletter of
The Pacific Forest Trust
Board 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
Staff
Laurie A. Wayburn, President
Constance Best, Managing Director
Randall Beren, Communications Director
John Bernstein, VP Conservation
Anton Chiono, Policy Associate
Andrea Deleon, Administrative Assistant
Sally Ericsson, National Policy Representative
Matt Fehrenbacher, Stewardship Forester
Christine Harrison, Communications Manager
Rachael Katz, Policy Project Manager
Peter Kodzis, Director of Finance & Admin.
Jessica Neff, Stewardship Associate
Sean O’Sullivan, Office/IT Manager
Alex Page, Development Associate
Jonathan Remucal, Stewardship Manager
Emily Russell-Roy, NE Policy Project Manager
Nicole Schuetz, Development Mgr./Foundations
Paula Swedeen, Senior Policy Analyst
Dale Thornburgh, Ph.D., Senior Forester
(CA Registered Professional Forester #430)
Steve Van Landingham, Development Director
Jolanta Zakrzewski, Accountant
Editors: Randall Beren & Christine Harrison
Art Director: Randall Beren
The Pacific Forest Trust is the leading non-profit
organization dedicated to sustaining America’s vital
working forests for all their public benefits.
© 2008 The Pacific Forest Trust. All rights reserved.
Reproduction permitted with attribution.
Franklin on Forests
‘Father of New Forestry’ Speaks About
Sequoia Award and Need for Stewardship
O
ften called the “guru of old growth
forests” and the “father of new
forestry,” 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 complex
web of life in forests and its important
contributions to society.
In recognition of these achievements,
the Pacific Forest Trust (PFT) honored
Franklin with the 2008 Sequoia Award
for Lifetime Achievement at this year’s
Forest Fete.
“The award means a great deal to me
because it comes from an organization
fully 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 Pacific Forest Trust, it means my
activities have had real and positive
consequences for forest conservation.”
In both his research and teaching,
Franklin’s 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
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the services – like carbon sequestration
– that our forests provide. It will mean
basing our policies and practices
on the most comprehensive science
possible, including our improving
understanding of the structure and
function of forest ecosystems. It
will mean restoring and maintaining
ecologically sustainable conditions
where they’ve been lost. It will mean
reestablishing credible public land
management agencies and policies.
“Sustaining our forests will require
aggressive investment in research
and monitoring programs,” Franklin
concludes. “And it will require credible
third-party assessments of forestland
management policies, including those
applied to federally owned forests.”
Franklin remains humble about his
accomplishments, hastening to add
that his achievements have all been
collaborative. “I’ve had an incredible
cadre of creative and personable
associates who have been critical to
my creativity and success.” t
PHOTO BY JAMES A. LUTZ
Jerry
Franklin
Thank You
Photo Courtesy of MTR Western
We gratefully acknowledge the following donors
whose financial gifts and pledges from May 2008 to
October 2008 have helped make our work possible
Individuals Timothy and Billie Taylor
Michael and Jeanne Adams George and Anita Thompson
Ralph Benson Steve Thompson
Karie and David Thomson
John Bernstein
Peter Boyer and Terry Gamble Steve Van Landingham
Samuel H. Brown Kirby Walker and Paul Danielson
Lewis and Sheana Butler Leslie Walker Burlock
Ed and Kerry Cooper and Walter Burlock
Peter Davis Brooks Walker, Jr.
Kate Ditzler and Stuart Gasner Laurie A. Wayburn
Edgar Wayburn
Caroline Donsbough
Katie Falkoff Georgia Westdahl
Nancy Fardelmann Gregory and Daphne Tebbe Riding
Douglas Ferguson
James P. Finerty Businesses Clean & Green
Betsy and Jesse Fink Autodesk
Rachel Fletcher Baldwin, Blomstrom, with
Robert Flint, Jr. Wilkinson & Associates
Michael Gallagher California Ski Industry Association MTR Western
Kass Green and Gene Forsburg The Campbell Group
Edmund Hayes, Jr. Cantor CO2e Guests from Sacramento arriving at Forest
George Helmholz The Collins Companies Fete 2008 enjoyed a comfortable, low-
Maurice and Janice Holloway ESRI carbon ride on one of the nation’s plushest
Joe Houghteling Green Mountain Energy Company
motorcoaches thanks to a generous
Bennett Johnston Hancock Timber Resource Group
K&L Gates
contribution from MTR Western, one of
John Laughlin
Konrad J. Liegel Mendocino Redwood Company the evening’s supporting sponsors.
Dixon Long MMA Sustainable Land Investments
Gregory E. Loniewski, Jr. MTR Western The west coast-based charter
Ross MacWhinney Pacific Gas and Electric Company motorcoach operator already is a top
Drew Maran and Sandra Slater Port Blakely Tree Farms choice for tour groups, sports teams
Kirk Marckwald and Christina Desser R&A Investment Forestry and others seeking style and comfort
Sylvia McLaughlin Redtree Properties
when they travel. Now the fleet’s top-of-
Dan McNevin Soluri, Emrick & Meserve
Sullivan & Worcester
the-line features include a “net carbon
Osha Meserve
Amy Meyer Trillium Asset Management negative” carbon footprint achieved with
Douglas Miller WM Beaty & Associates a combination of 74 state-of-the-art,
Wes Miller cleaner-burning diesel vehicles and 6,000
Stephen C. and Amanda Morris Foundations metric tons of emissions reductions
Theresa Nelson Ayrshire Foundation
from PFT’s Van Eck Forest Project.
Jennifer Niedermeyer Bella Vista Foundation
Nancy Nordhoff Bullitt Foundation “We’re the only charter motorcoach
Gilman and Marge Ordway Energy Foundation
carrier in North America I know of that
Ben Patton James Irvine Foundation
mitigates more than 100 percent of the
Timothy and Ulrike Pirrung Kongsgaard-Goldman Foundation
Gary C. Rynearson Laird Norton Family Foundation emissions it creates by purchasing carbon
Walter and Jeanne Sedgwick Marisla Foundation offsets,” says Darren Berg, Chief Executive
Elizabeth Sedgwick Moore Charitable Foundation Officer of MTR Western. “Our proud
Morgan Family Foundation
Ed Small support of PFT and the Van Eck Forest
Steven A. Small Robertson Foundation Project is compelling evidence of our
Pieter Smith S.D. Bechtel, Jr. Foundation
commitment toward being a responsible
Linda Snyder San Francisco Foundation
Weeden Foundation environmental citizen.” t
Charlie Swindells
 Klamath-Cascade Collaborations
Partnerships Helping Conserve Sierra Valley and Monument Lands
T he Pacific Forest Trust and our
partners are advancing efforts
to conserve thousands of acres in
the remarkably biodiverse Klamath-
Cascade eco-region, a key PFT focal
area. Comprising an arc that extends
from Oregon’s Klamath River basin
across California’s 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 California’s Sierra Valley – where
we’ve 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
PHOTO BY CHRISTINE HARRISON
Landowners and PFT easement partners Russell Turner and Bob Copren (center)
show Trout Unlimited’s John Williamson (left) and local forester Bob Suter (right)
the lay of the land during a recent conservation tour of the Sierra Valley.
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
won’t survive settlement of an estate.
But by conserving our lands with
groups like the Pacific 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 first Sierra Valley property to be
conserved by PFT 11 years ago. “It’s a
critical zone and it’s worth saving.”
We’re also fulfilling our promise
to realize a more complete, more
fully conserved Cascade-Siskiyou
National Monument (CSNM).
By year’s end, the Bureau of Land
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Everyone Wins with Woods
Trailblazing Landowners, Visionary Lawmaker and Leading
Ecologist Honored at Annual Dinner and Awards Ceremony
Tax Perks Forest Trust and a roomful of people
like you who are dedicated to our
benefits of forests in Congress. In her
acceptance video, she commended
PHOTO BY LARKIN DONLEY
Landowners seeking to conserve forests,” Franklin observed. “I believe PFT’s economic model for rewarding
their forests for the benefit of if we understand forest ecosystems and landowners who manage their forests
future generations will continue fully understand their complexity and for climate benefits. “I believe we
to have a generous tax incentive beauty, we will do the right thing.” need to make sure that there are
to do so with the renewal and strong incentives for sustainable forest
expansion of the 2008 Farm
The Phillips Brothers Mill and Tree management practices and that we can
Bill. The incentive, which is
Farm accepted the Forest Champion tackle global warming by having those
retroactive to January 2008 and
of the Year award honoring their incentives in place,” she said.
extends through 2009, raises
the deduction for donating an groundbreaking work as the first
Fete Guests family forest owners to enter into a Speaker of the House Pelosi, along
easement from 30% of a donor’s Carol Finkelstein
income in any one year to 50%. working forest conservation easement with Senators Boxer and Feinstein, sent
and Sandy Dean
It also increases the number of partnership with PFT. “Our forest representatives who each presented
years over which one can take cannot be subdivided or broken up. PFT with a meritorious citation lauding
“T
It will be harvested in perpetuity our 15 years of service protecting and
deductions from six to 16. For onight we have tree huggers
more information about WFCEs as a biodiverse, multi-aged forest,” promoting working forests.
and tree loggers, landowners
and tax incentives, contact John declared Gary Hendrix, the family’s
and regulators, foresters and
Bernstein at 415.561.0700. spokesman. “I want to thank the Forest Fete 2008 was presented with
conservationists, bankers and birders,
Pacific Forest Trust for helping us the generous support of Mendocino
scientists and surfers, Democrats and
realize a vision of conserving our land Redwood Company, Pacific Gas &
Republicans – every one of us united
Management (BLM) will have so it could be passed on in perpetuity Electric Company and dozens more
behind winning with woods.”
purchased from PFT 1,000 acres of to future generations of Phillips.” businesses and individuals. t
land within the CSNM Planning Area. With that rallying introduction, Pacific
This first transfer of private lands into Senator Debbie Stabenow (MI) View Fete photos and videos
Forest Trust Managing Director
the public CSNM uses federal funds received the Outside-the-Box Award at: www.pacificforest.org/
Connie Best welcomed supporters to
PFT helped secure with the support of for raising awareness of the climate forestfete/forestfete08.html.
Forest Fete 2008: Everyone Wins
Senators Wyden, Smith and Feinstein with Woods.
and the Soda Mountain Wilderness
Council. The tracts include a mile of Renowned conservation biologist
PHOTO BY SEAN O’SULLIVAN
the famed Pacific Crest Trail and are Thomas Lovejoy, who gave the
adjacent to old-growth stands already evening’s keynote speech on climate
owned by BLM and in the Monument. change, began the program praising
PFT’s forest stewardship principles.
PFT currently holds 4,720 acres of “The whole world needs to be
forestlands within the CSNM Planning managing their forests in the way the
Area, all acquired to protect the integrity Pacific Forest Trust is encouraging,”
of the only national monument dedicated asserted Lovejoy.
to biodiversity. These threatened lands
were bought with lead funding from the Pioneering forest ecologist Jerry
Meyer Memorial Trust and the Bullitt Franklin, who received the Sequoia
and Weeden foundations, among others. Award for Lifetime Achievement (see
As additional federal funds become opposite page), shared an optimistic
available, we will continue to transfer vision for the future of forests. “It
more of these lands to the BLM for really fills me with hope when we (from left) Gary, Gregg and Allison Hendrix and Kathy, Denice and Ed Smith are
inclusion in the Monument. t have organizations like the Pacific Phillips family members proud to be honored as Forest Champion of the Year.

Photo by Francesa Dalleo
Wayburn and
LTA President
Rand Wentworth
Irvine & LTA
Honor
Wayburn For
Climate Work
PFT President Laurie Wayburn has
received two highly prestigious awards
this year in recognition of her and
PFT’s pioneering climate work.
In June, Wayburn was named one of
six recipients of the 2008 James Irvine
Foundation Leadership Award and
received $125,000 to support PFT’s
climate policy work in California.
“We believe Laurie Wayburn’s
innovative, cooperative approach
to conservation and climate change
action will make a real difference in
Californians’ lives,” says Jim Canales,
Irvine Foundation president and CEO.
In September, Wayburn received the
Land Trust Alliance’s Kingsbury Browne
Conservation Leadership Award and
was named a fellow at the Lincoln
Institute of Land Policy.
“While others were simply thinking
about carbon credits, Laurie and her
team were designing a credible, state-
adopted system for measuring and
selling emissions reductions from
forests that is now considered a
model,” says Russ Shay, LTA director of
public policy. t
Best & Wayburn Weigh 15 Years of Work
Conservation, Commerce, Partnerships and Persistence Define PFT
During the “Redwood Summer” of
1990, thousands of activists gathered
in Northern California, chaining
themselves to trees and blocking
bulldozers 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 across
barricades,” 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 Pacific
Forest Trust.”
Today, those alliances form the
backbone of PFT’s innovative
approach to conserving forests for
all their ecological and economic
benefits. For our 15th anniversary,
Wayburn and Best reflect on the
evolution of PFT into the leading
non-profit advocating for working
forests and their public benefits.
What established the Pacific Forest
Trust 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
4 5
15
YEARS
of forest loss and depletion. We, across the country. From our founding, synergies between commerce and
therefore, wanted to harness financial we’ve also been developing policy and conservation. And, when we added the
markets to promote practices that market frameworks that reward forest climate benefits of forests, we achieved
would result in more abundant forests landowners for providing ecosystem a triple win for landowners, forests and
with healthier ecosystems. We needed services. The success of these efforts the public.
economic incentives that would reward has been validated by California’s
approval of forest carbon sequestration Your work with PFT is a labor of love.
Anniversary
projects as an early-action measure to
meet climate goals and by the Van Eck
What makes it all worthwhile? Challenge
doubles
PHOTO BY RANDALL BEREN
Forest Project becoming the first such CB: It’s gratifying to see the tools
project registered in the state. Selling
emissions reductions from the project
we’ve developed take on a life of
their own. Hundreds of thousands of
Your Gift
is demonstrating that sustainably acres of forestland around the country
managed forests can offer landowners are being safeguarded with Working
The Pacific Forest Trust is proud to
be celebrating 15 years of delivering
real financial returns. Forest Conservation Easements. Many
partners are working with us across the
innovative conservation and climate
solutions. Since our founding, we’ve
U.S. to harness the power of working
forests to solve the climate crisis.
made great progress ensuring
America’s working forests are
That’s very exciting to us. safeguarded and strengthened for the
benefit of generations to come.
LW: And it’s incredibly rewarding
But there is much work yet to do to
every time we’re out on one of the
successfully tackle new conservation
properties we’ve worked with a challenges in the West and promote
landowner to conserve. It’s a wonderful strong climate policies nationally.
feeling to know these forests are going
to be well-managed, benefiting people That’s why PFT’s Board of Directors is
and nature for generations to come. sponsoring a 15 Year Anniversary
Donor Challenge. With your
What is your vision for the support, we’re aiming to kick off the
next 15 years with expanded and
organization going forward? enhanced partnerships that will enable
us to better Retain, Sustain and Gain
CB: The challenges of sustaining
PHOTO BY RANDALL BEREN
from America’s working forests.
landowners for their conservation and our forests are only increasing in this
stewardship efforts. We also saw an turbulent time of global change. Our To help us meet these goals, our
opportunity to apply groundbreaking vision is for PFT to continue expanding Board – spurred by sizeable gifts
new findings in forest ecology to forest our partnerships so together we can from Gregory and Daphne Tebbe and
management in ways that would benefit create a society that values forests for Charles Swindells – has generously
all they provide – wood, water, wildlife offered to double the size of your
both landowners and forests.
2008 gift by up to $150,000 – that’s
and a well-balanced climate.
$10,000 for every year we’ve been
Connie Best: One of our first steps championing forests.
was to develop a new tool that would What has fueled PFT’s growth? LW: The value of the whole forest is
conserve managed forestlands and offer far greater than the sum of its parts. So, please, celebrate our past by giving
landowners tax incentives. The result CB: It’s taken good ideas, great This is a fundamental shift in the way to our future. Donate today by using
was the Working Forest Conservation partnerships and, frankly, persistence. people value forests. So, we intend the attached envelope to mail your
Easement, which we promoted to to continue building on this model in gift. Or give online at:
landowners and the conservation LW: We focused on positive solutions order to retain, sustain and gain from
community and that is now in wide use to complex problems. We found forests in ways that benefit us all. t www.PacificForest.org

Photo by Francesa Dalleo
Wayburn and
LTA President
Rand Wentworth
Irvine & LTA
Honor
Wayburn For
Climate Work
PFT President Laurie Wayburn has
received two highly prestigious awards
this year in recognition of her and
PFT’s pioneering climate work.
In June, Wayburn was named one of
six recipients of the 2008 James Irvine
Foundation Leadership Award and
received $125,000 to support PFT’s
climate policy work in California.
“We believe Laurie Wayburn’s
innovative, cooperative approach
to conservation and climate change
action will make a real difference in
Californians’ lives,” says Jim Canales,
Irvine Foundation president and CEO.
In September, Wayburn received the
Land Trust Alliance’s Kingsbury Browne
Conservation Leadership Award and
was named a fellow at the Lincoln
Institute of Land Policy.
“While others were simply thinking
about carbon credits, Laurie and her
team were designing a credible, state-
adopted system for measuring and
selling emissions reductions from
forests that is now considered a
model,” says Russ Shay, LTA director of
public policy. t
Best & Wayburn Weigh 15 Years of Work
Conservation, Commerce, Partnerships and Persistence Define PFT
During the “Redwood Summer” of
1990, thousands of activists gathered
in Northern California, chaining
themselves to trees and blocking
bulldozers 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 across
barricades,” 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 Pacific
Forest Trust.”
Today, those alliances form the
backbone of PFT’s innovative
approach to conserving forests for
all their ecological and economic
benefits. For our 15th anniversary,
Wayburn and Best reflect on the
evolution of PFT into the leading
non-profit advocating for working
forests and their public benefits.
What established the Pacific Forest
Trust 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
4 5
15
YEARS
of forest loss and depletion. We, across the country. From our founding, synergies between commerce and
therefore, wanted to harness financial we’ve also been developing policy and conservation. And, when we added the
markets to promote practices that market frameworks that reward forest climate benefits of forests, we achieved
would result in more abundant forests landowners for providing ecosystem a triple win for landowners, forests and
with healthier ecosystems. We needed services. The success of these efforts the public.
economic incentives that would reward has been validated by California’s
approval of forest carbon sequestration Your work with PFT is a labor of love.
Anniversary
projects as an early-action measure to
meet climate goals and by the Van Eck
What makes it all worthwhile? Challenge
doubles
PHOTO BY RANDALL BEREN
Forest Project becoming the first such CB: It’s gratifying to see the tools
project registered in the state. Selling
emissions reductions from the project
we’ve developed take on a life of
their own. Hundreds of thousands of
Your Gift
is demonstrating that sustainably acres of forestland around the country
managed forests can offer landowners are being safeguarded with Working
The Pacific Forest Trust is proud to
be celebrating 15 years of delivering
real financial returns. Forest Conservation Easements. Many
partners are working with us across the
innovative conservation and climate
solutions. Since our founding, we’ve
U.S. to harness the power of working
forests to solve the climate crisis.
made great progress ensuring
America’s working forests are
That’s very exciting to us. safeguarded and strengthened for the
benefit of generations to come.
LW: And it’s incredibly rewarding
But there is much work yet to do to
every time we’re out on one of the
successfully tackle new conservation
properties we’ve worked with a challenges in the West and promote
landowner to conserve. It’s a wonderful strong climate policies nationally.
feeling to know these forests are going
to be well-managed, benefiting people That’s why PFT’s Board of Directors is
and nature for generations to come. sponsoring a 15 Year Anniversary
Donor Challenge. With your
What is your vision for the support, we’re aiming to kick off the
next 15 years with expanded and
organization going forward? enhanced partnerships that will enable
us to better Retain, Sustain and Gain
CB: The challenges of sustaining
PHOTO BY RANDALL BEREN
from America’s working forests.
landowners for their conservation and our forests are only increasing in this
stewardship efforts. We also saw an turbulent time of global change. Our To help us meet these goals, our
opportunity to apply groundbreaking vision is for PFT to continue expanding Board – spurred by sizeable gifts
new findings in forest ecology to forest our partnerships so together we can from Gregory and Daphne Tebbe and
management in ways that would benefit create a society that values forests for Charles Swindells – has generously
all they provide – wood, water, wildlife offered to double the size of your
both landowners and forests.
2008 gift by up to $150,000 – that’s
and a well-balanced climate.
$10,000 for every year we’ve been
Connie Best: One of our first steps championing forests.
was to develop a new tool that would What has fueled PFT’s growth? LW: The value of the whole forest is
conserve managed forestlands and offer far greater than the sum of its parts. So, please, celebrate our past by giving
landowners tax incentives. The result CB: It’s taken good ideas, great This is a fundamental shift in the way to our future. Donate today by using
was the Working Forest Conservation partnerships and, frankly, persistence. people value forests. So, we intend the attached envelope to mail your
Easement, which we promoted to to continue building on this model in gift. Or give online at:
landowners and the conservation LW: We focused on positive solutions order to retain, sustain and gain from
community and that is now in wide use to complex problems. We found forests in ways that benefit us all. t www.PacificForest.org
 Klamath-Cascade Collaborations
Partnerships Helping Conserve Sierra Valley and Monument Lands
T he Pacific Forest Trust and our
partners are advancing efforts
to conserve thousands of acres in
the remarkably biodiverse Klamath-
Cascade eco-region, a key PFT focal
area. Comprising an arc that extends
from Oregon’s Klamath River basin
across California’s 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 California’s Sierra Valley – where
we’ve 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
PHOTO BY CHRISTINE HARRISON
Landowners and PFT easement partners Russell Turner and Bob Copren (center)
show Trout Unlimited’s John Williamson (left) and local forester Bob Suter (right)
the lay of the land during a recent conservation tour of the Sierra Valley.
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
won’t survive settlement of an estate.
But by conserving our lands with
groups like the Pacific 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 first Sierra Valley property to be
conserved by PFT 11 years ago. “It’s a
critical zone and it’s worth saving.”
We’re also fulfilling our promise
to realize a more complete, more
fully conserved Cascade-Siskiyou
National Monument (CSNM).
By year’s end, the Bureau of Land
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Everyone Wins with Woods
Trailblazing Landowners, Visionary Lawmaker and Leading
Ecologist Honored at Annual Dinner and Awards Ceremony
Tax Perks Forest Trust and a roomful of people
like you who are dedicated to our
benefits of forests in Congress. In her
acceptance video, she commended
PHOTO BY LARKIN DONLEY
Landowners seeking to conserve forests,” Franklin observed. “I believe PFT’s economic model for rewarding
their forests for the benefit of if we understand forest ecosystems and landowners who manage their forests
future generations will continue fully understand their complexity and for climate benefits. “I believe we
to have a generous tax incentive beauty, we will do the right thing.” need to make sure that there are
to do so with the renewal and strong incentives for sustainable forest
expansion of the 2008 Farm
The Phillips Brothers Mill and Tree management practices and that we can
Bill. The incentive, which is
Farm accepted the Forest Champion tackle global warming by having those
retroactive to January 2008 and
of the Year award honoring their incentives in place,” she said.
extends through 2009, raises
the deduction for donating an groundbreaking work as the first
Fete Guests family forest owners to enter into a Speaker of the House Pelosi, along
easement from 30% of a donor’s Carol Finkelstein
income in any one year to 50%. working forest conservation easement with Senators Boxer and Feinstein, sent
and Sandy Dean
It also increases the number of partnership with PFT. “Our forest representatives who each presented
years over which one can take cannot be subdivided or broken up. PFT with a meritorious citation lauding
“T
It will be harvested in perpetuity our 15 years of service protecting and
deductions from six to 16. For onight we have tree huggers
more information about WFCEs as a biodiverse, multi-aged forest,” promoting working forests.
and tree loggers, landowners
and tax incentives, contact John declared Gary Hendrix, the family’s
and regulators, foresters and
Bernstein at 415.561.0700. spokesman. “I want to thank the Forest Fete 2008 was presented with
conservationists, bankers and birders,
Pacific Forest Trust for helping us the generous support of Mendocino
scientists and surfers, Democrats and
realize a vision of conserving our land Redwood Company, Pacific Gas &
Republicans – every one of us united
Management (BLM) will have so it could be passed on in perpetuity Electric Company and dozens more
behind winning with woods.”
purchased from PFT 1,000 acres of to future generations of Phillips.” businesses and individuals. t
land within the CSNM Planning Area. With that rallying introduction, Pacific
This first transfer of private lands into Senator Debbie Stabenow (MI) View Fete photos and videos
Forest Trust Managing Director
the public CSNM uses federal funds received the Outside-the-Box Award at: www.pacificforest.org/
Connie Best welcomed supporters to
PFT helped secure with the support of for raising awareness of the climate forestfete/forestfete08.html.
Forest Fete 2008: Everyone Wins
Senators Wyden, Smith and Feinstein with Woods.
and the Soda Mountain Wilderness
Council. The tracts include a mile of Renowned conservation biologist
PHOTO BY SEAN O’SULLIVAN
the famed Pacific Crest Trail and are Thomas Lovejoy, who gave the
adjacent to old-growth stands already evening’s keynote speech on climate
owned by BLM and in the Monument. change, began the program praising
PFT’s forest stewardship principles.
PFT currently holds 4,720 acres of “The whole world needs to be
forestlands within the CSNM Planning managing their forests in the way the
Area, all acquired to protect the integrity Pacific Forest Trust is encouraging,”
of the only national monument dedicated asserted Lovejoy.
to biodiversity. These threatened lands
were bought with lead funding from the Pioneering forest ecologist Jerry
Meyer Memorial Trust and the Bullitt Franklin, who received the Sequoia
and Weeden foundations, among others. Award for Lifetime Achievement (see
As additional federal funds become opposite page), shared an optimistic
available, we will continue to transfer vision for the future of forests. “It
more of these lands to the BLM for really fills me with hope when we (from left) Gary, Gregg and Allison Hendrix and Kathy, Denice and Ed Smith are
inclusion in the Monument. t have organizations like the Pacific Phillips family members proud to be honored as Forest Champion of the Year.
 ForestLife
Forests for Work. Forests for Life.
The Newsletter of
The Pacific Forest Trust
Board 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
Staff
Laurie A. Wayburn, President
Constance Best, Managing Director
Randall Beren, Communications Director
John Bernstein, VP Conservation
Anton Chiono, Policy Associate
Andrea Deleon, Administrative Assistant
Sally Ericsson, National Policy Representative
Matt Fehrenbacher, Stewardship Forester
Christine Harrison, Communications Manager
Rachael Katz, Policy Project Manager
Peter Kodzis, Director of Finance & Admin.
Jessica Neff, Stewardship Associate
Sean O’Sullivan, Office/IT Manager
Alex Page, Development Associate
Jonathan Remucal, Stewardship Manager
Emily Russell-Roy, NE Policy Project Manager
Nicole Schuetz, Development Mgr./Foundations
Paula Swedeen, Senior Policy Analyst
Dale Thornburgh, Ph.D., Senior Forester
(CA Registered Professional Forester #430)
Steve Van Landingham, Development Director
Jolanta Zakrzewski, Accountant
Editors: Randall Beren & Christine Harrison
Art Director: Randall Beren
The Pacific Forest Trust is the leading non-profit
organization dedicated to sustaining America’s vital
working forests for all their public benefits.
© 2008 The Pacific Forest Trust. All rights reserved.
Reproduction permitted with attribution.
Franklin on Forests
‘Father of New Forestry’ Speaks About
Sequoia Award and Need for Stewardship
O
ften called the “guru of old growth
forests” and the “father of new
forestry,” 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 complex
web of life in forests and its important
contributions to society.
In recognition of these achievements,
the Pacific Forest Trust (PFT) honored
Franklin with the 2008 Sequoia Award
for Lifetime Achievement at this year’s
Forest Fete.
“The award means a great deal to me
because it comes from an organization
fully 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 Pacific Forest Trust, it means my
activities have had real and positive
consequences for forest conservation.”
In both his research and teaching,
Franklin’s 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
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the services – like carbon sequestration
– that our forests provide. It will mean
basing our policies and practices
on the most comprehensive science
possible, including our improving
understanding of the structure and
function of forest ecosystems. It
will mean restoring and maintaining
ecologically sustainable conditions
where they’ve been lost. It will mean
reestablishing credible public land
management agencies and policies.
“Sustaining our forests will require
aggressive investment in research
and monitoring programs,” Franklin
concludes. “And it will require credible
third-party assessments of forestland
management policies, including those
applied to federally owned forests.”
Franklin remains humble about his
accomplishments, hastening to add
that his achievements have all been
collaborative. “I’ve had an incredible
cadre of creative and personable
associates who have been critical to
my creativity and success.” t
PHOTO BY JAMES A. LUTZ
Jerry
Franklin
Thank You
Photo Courtesy of MTR Western
We gratefully acknowledge the following donors
whose financial gifts and pledges from May 2008 to
October 2008 have helped make our work possible
Individuals Timothy and Billie Taylor
Michael and Jeanne Adams George and Anita Thompson
Ralph Benson Steve Thompson
Karie and David Thomson
John Bernstein
Peter Boyer and Terry Gamble Steve Van Landingham
Samuel H. Brown Kirby Walker and Paul Danielson
Lewis and Sheana Butler Leslie Walker Burlock
Ed and Kerry Cooper and Walter Burlock
Peter Davis Brooks Walker, Jr.
Kate Ditzler and Stuart Gasner Laurie A. Wayburn
Edgar Wayburn
Caroline Donsbough
Katie Falkoff Georgia Westdahl
Nancy Fardelmann Gregory and Daphne Tebbe Riding
Douglas Ferguson
James P. Finerty Businesses Clean & Green
Betsy and Jesse Fink Autodesk
Rachel Fletcher Baldwin, Blomstrom, with
Robert Flint, Jr. Wilkinson & Associates
Michael Gallagher California Ski Industry Association MTR Western
Kass Green and Gene Forsburg The Campbell Group
Edmund Hayes, Jr. Cantor CO2e Guests from Sacramento arriving at Forest
George Helmholz The Collins Companies Fete 2008 enjoyed a comfortable, low-
Maurice and Janice Holloway ESRI carbon ride on one of the nation’s plushest
Joe Houghteling Green Mountain Energy Company
motorcoaches thanks to a generous
Bennett Johnston Hancock Timber Resource Group
K&L Gates
contribution from MTR Western, one of
John Laughlin
Konrad J. Liegel Mendocino Redwood Company the evening’s supporting sponsors.
Dixon Long MMA Sustainable Land Investments
Gregory E. Loniewski, Jr. MTR Western The west coast-based charter
Ross MacWhinney Pacific Gas and Electric Company motorcoach operator already is a top
Drew Maran and Sandra Slater Port Blakely Tree Farms choice for tour groups, sports teams
Kirk Marckwald and Christina Desser R&A Investment Forestry and others seeking style and comfort
Sylvia McLaughlin Redtree Properties
when they travel. Now the fleet’s top-of-
Dan McNevin Soluri, Emrick & Meserve
Sullivan & Worcester
the-line features include a “net carbon
Osha Meserve
Amy Meyer Trillium Asset Management negative” carbon footprint achieved with
Douglas Miller WM Beaty & Associates a combination of 74 state-of-the-art,
Wes Miller cleaner-burning diesel vehicles and 6,000
Stephen C. and Amanda Morris Foundations metric tons of emissions reductions
Theresa Nelson Ayrshire Foundation
from PFT’s Van Eck Forest Project.
Jennifer Niedermeyer Bella Vista Foundation
Nancy Nordhoff Bullitt Foundation “We’re the only charter motorcoach
Gilman and Marge Ordway Energy Foundation
carrier in North America I know of that
Ben Patton James Irvine Foundation
mitigates more than 100 percent of the
Timothy and Ulrike Pirrung Kongsgaard-Goldman Foundation
Gary C. Rynearson Laird Norton Family Foundation emissions it creates by purchasing carbon
Walter and Jeanne Sedgwick Marisla Foundation offsets,” says Darren Berg, Chief Executive
Elizabeth Sedgwick Moore Charitable Foundation Officer of MTR Western. “Our proud
Morgan Family Foundation
Ed Small support of PFT and the Van Eck Forest
Steven A. Small Robertson Foundation Project is compelling evidence of our
Pieter Smith S.D. Bechtel, Jr. Foundation
commitment toward being a responsible
Linda Snyder San Francisco Foundation
Weeden Foundation environmental citizen.” t
Charlie Swindells
 Standing Up for Climate Benefits
PFT Backing Holistic, ‘No Net Loss’ Approach for Forests

F orests can work to keep our climate

cool. But only if we stop their loss
and conserve, manage and restore
them so that they absorb and store
more carbon. That’s why the Pacific
Forest Trust is building strong climate
policies and robust markets that will
utilize forests as a key tool in the effort
to combat global warming.
We’ve had significant success in
California this year as the state moves
PHOTO BY ANDREA DELEON
closer to implementing its landmark
climate legislation, Assembly Bill
32. We’re encouraged by the AB 32
proposed scoping plan’s inclusion of
forests as a key sector. The proposed
plan incorporates our recommended
sector-wide approach to monitoring
and managing the carbon stored in
California’s forests, including a policy
of “no net loss” of forest carbon
benefits. It also calls for accurate
accounting of forest-based emissions,
which is especially critical as forests
can affect other sectors including
land use, construction, energy and
transportation.
The proposed plan also includes a
role for the marketing of forest carbon
emissions reductions, or “offsets,” that
give landowners a financial incentive to
manage their forests for climate gains.
We continue to work with California’s
Climate Action Registry in developing
a “version 2.0” of their accounting
protocols to ensure those emissions

reductions are permanent, verifiable,

and additional to what can be achieved
with business-as-usual practices.

“Our successes in California serve as a

guide for our policy work in Washington
State, the mid-Atlantic and southern
states, as well as the Western Climate
Initiative and the Regional Greenhouse
Gas Initiative,” says PFT President
Laurie Wayburn. “We’re taking what
we learn from these efforts across the
country to advance a strong national
INTERNATIONAL INFLUENCE: A delegration of Chinese forestry officials led framework for forest climate policy,
by Zhou Shaozhou (third from right) and German advisors from GTZ met with in collaboration with landowners and
PFT’s policy team in October to learn about our forest carbon policy initiatives. other climate stakeholders.”

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