Big BasinJohnsen Wagstaff Grove

ButanoJane and Stan Moore Family Grove

Del Norte CoastLeonard Larson Grove

Aubrey F. Liermann Grove

Forest of Nisene MarksJan Carel & Agnes Tillman van Eck Memorial Grove

Gray WhaleRoger P. Guinee Memorial Grove

Harry MerloWilliam I. Goodhew Memorial Grove

Jedediah SmithMarc and Alice Davis Grove

Estes GroveFraser GroveGoble Grove

Lawrence C. MerriamMcGrew Grove

Julia Pfeiffer BurnsParthenia O’Connor & Antonie J. Koenig Grove

NavarroGuy and Edna Jacobson Family Grove

Judith Metzger Riggs Grove

PortolaMartha McCoid Bennett & Alston Lyon Bennett Grove

Michael, Peter and Thomas Goldman Grove

Prairie CreekOscie Louise Davis Crosland GroveKenneth and Marjorie Dawdy Grove

Mabel Thacher Edwards Memorial GroveLiermann Family Grove

Liermann Family GroveElizabeth Heil Rohrs Memorial Grove

Redwood National ParkBradulov-Meko GroveSaperstein Family GroveCharles C. Wagner Grove

Sinkyone WildernessJan and Edith C. Wolff Grove

Wilder RanchPaul and Robert Gerstley Grove

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Save-the-Redwoods LeagueFall Bulletin 2000

Calf Creek, in Rockefeller Forest, Humboldt Redwoods State Park.Photo by Howard King.

Our Bulletins are available on our website,www.savetheredwoods.org, as PDF files that you maydownload and print. You can now receive your bulletin byemail (as a PDF file attachment) instead of by postal mail bycontacting the office at redwoods@savetheredwoods.org.

The Mystery of the Forest. Photo by H. C. Tibbetts.

Groves Established in the Past Year

Since 1920 the Memorial and Honor GroveProgram has been a major source of support for theLeague’s success in building redwood parks. Theaverage gift to establish a five-acre grove is$30,000 to $50,000; the money goes to our landprogram and the grove is established in an existingpark. Please call our toll-free number, (888) 836-0005, and ask for Denise Price if you are interestedin establishing a grove.

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The campaign to purchase the Dillonwood GiantSequoia Grove and add it to Sequoia NationalPark is proceeding. This spring, legislation toexpand the boundaries of the Park to includeDillonwood was introduced in the House byCongressman George Radanovich and in theSenate by Senator Barbara Boxer, co-sponsored bySenator Dianne Feinstein. The Senate has passedits bill, and we are hopeful that the House may actin the closing days of its session. SenatorFeinstein is spearheading the effort to securefederal funding for half the $10 million purchaseprice and the League is actively securing privatecontributions for the other $5 million.

The League's recent purchases include 546 acresadjacent to Jedediah Smith Redwoods State Parkin Del Norte County. Maturing forests now coverthe slopes on this parcel, reaching upward fromCrescent City into the Park. Its permanentprotection will buffer the old-growth redwoods ofJed Smith from the developed area aroundCrescent City. The League also acquired anadjoining ten-acre parcel to link the inland trailsof Redwood State and National Parks through thelarger parcel to the Coast trail.

In Santa Cruz County, the League purchased 270acres adjacent to Henry Cowell Redwoods StatePark. A mature second growth grove anchored byold growth trees 60 to 100 inches in diameter willbe added to the old growth redwood grove in thePark. On this parcel, redwood forest gives wayabruptly to two natural communities characterizedas globally critically imperiled in the CaliforniaNatural Diversity Data Base: 39 acres of NorthernMaritime Chaparral and 87 acres of Coast RangePonderosa Pine Forest. Sand parkland, a type ofthe coast range ponderosa pine forest, isconsidered "the most distinctive and biologicallydiverse plant community within the sandhills ofcentral Santa Cruz County," supporting at leastsixty sandhills specialty plant species on this site.

Permanent protection for this very unusualproperty is an important step in a comprehensiveconservation strategy for the redwood ecosystemthat depends on preservation of associated habitatstogether with redwood forest lands.

Recent Acquisitions

Dillonwood Update

Casting About for All theReasons Behind His Bequest

Frank Wentworth is passionate about preservingwild fish habitat.

For some thirty years Wentworth has fished fortrout and steelhead in Northern California waters.He learned fly fishing as a teen-ager from hisfather, Bill, who served as treasurer of Save-the-Redwoods League for twenty-five years, aposition Frank now holds. And he understands theimportance of the redwood forests to wild fish.That's why he has included a bequest for Save-the-Redwoods League in his estate plans.

"In Big Sur, steelhead migrate upstream from thesea into fresh water sheltered by redwood trees,"he said. "The shading canopy of the forest keepsthe water cool and makes it ideal for spawning."

He is excited by the League's recent efforts toprotect Dillonwood Grove, which lies in the upperreaches of the North Fork of California's TuleRiver: "Dillonwood protects a fantastic wildbrown trout fishery. It's a great piece of propertythat preserves and protects both the watershed andwildlife habitat."

Wentworth, who also chairs the League's plannedgiving committee, hopes that others, fishingenthusiasts or not, will include the League in theirestate plan as he has. "I have a very emotionalresponse to saving redwoods," he said, "andwithout the shade provided by the redwoodcanopy in wild fish habitats like Dillonwood, thewild brown trout that live in the headwaters of theTule River would not survive. By including theLeague in my estate plans, I know the importantwork of saving the redwoods will continue."

If you would like information on planning acharitable bequest or the tax and income benefitsof charitable trusts, please call Sage Bubolo,Director of Major Gifts at (415) 362-2352, ext. 16.We look forward to welcoming you as a newmember of the League's Redwood Legacy Circle.

You may not think of visiting the redwood parksin the winter. The winter rains of the CoastRedwood region are critical for forest health, butlong periods of heavy rain are rare. Light rain ismore common, alternating with days of clear blueskies.

Venture into the redwood forest in the rain, andyou will find, in the words of Dr. Paul Zinke,"although the rain outside was like a mist, thedrops in the groves may be as big as yourfingernails ... dropping like plummeting cometsthrough the forest." Summer crowds are gone,and raindrops falling from hundreds of feet abovemake the only sound.

The first storms of winter blow the year'saccumulation of dead leaflets out of the trees,leaving them fresh and green. The same streamthat was barely a trickle in August is a rushingtorrent in January—and you may see salmonleaping upstream.

It will be easier than ever to visit one ofCalifornia's State Parks this winter: park fees arebeing reduced or eliminated.

On July 1, 2000, the standard day use parkingfee was cut from $5 per day to $2 at all but a fewparks. On January 1, 2001, the remaining day usefees and all camping fees will be reduced, andspecial camping charges will be eliminated, as willboat fees. The price of the annual day-use parkingpass has also been reduced from $75 to $35 peryear, issued as a tag that can be moved fromvehicle to vehicle at the user's convenience.

Visit Your Redwood Parks!

Illustration by Maryjo Koch.

Photo by Don Briggs.

In Memoriam

Save-the-Redwoods League regrets to announcethe deaths of four of its distinguished Councillors,R. A. L. Menzies, Carl A. Anderson, Dr. RobertOrnduff and Francis M. Wheat.

For R. A. L. Menzies, protecting the redwoodswas a long-standing family tradition. He joinedthe Council in 1962 continuing decades of serviceby his father, R. H. Menzies. He became amember of the Board of Directors in 1966, andserved as Vice-President from 1980 until 1998.He loved the redwoods, and loved introducingpeople to them. Many of his friends andacquaintances were inspired by his example toestablish groves in the redwood parks.

Carl A. Anderson worked for 38 years mostly inthe redwood parks of the California Departmentof Parks and Recreation. After retiring as DeputyDirector in 1986, he joined the League's Counciland dedicated many hours to showing groves inthe parks near his north coast home to prospectivedonors. He was a tireless representative of theLeague's interests innumerable meetings in thesuccessful battle to prevent CalTrans fromstraightening and widening Highway 101 throughthe heart of Del Norte Coast Redwoods StatePark. Toward the end of this process hecommented, "The price for perpetuating parkvalues is constant, eternal vigilance."

Dr. Robert Ornduff became a Councillor in1986. The former head of the Botanical Gardensand Herbarium at the University of California inBerkeley, Dr. Ornduff was a rich source ofinformation and assistance with botanical issuesand an insightful member of the Research GrantsCommittee.

Frank Wheat was a new member of the Council,but he was by no means new to conservation orpublic service. As a trustee of the Anza-BorregoFoundation he helped pass the California DesertProtection Act of 1994, which created three and ahalf million acres of wilderness in the MojaveDesert. He served on the board of theEarthjustice Legal Defense Fund and was afounder and board member of the Center for Lawin the Public Interest and the Alliance forChildren's Rights.