Forest Restoration
Planting over 1 million trees to restore the forest
The Preservation Ranch property was clear-cut logged at least twice in the past leaving a depleted timber resource and a damaged wildlife habitat. Preservation Ranch proposes to plant over 1 million trees in an ambitious restoration effort to improve the health and productivity of the forest.
Our restoration goals are to:
- Create a more healthy, fire resistant and diverse forest with more conifers
- Improve wildlife and fisheries habitat
- Increase carbon storage to help fight global warming
Restoration will take place in two steps, over a 3 to 5 year period:
- Managing competing tanoak vegetation (which has grown explosively after past clear cut logging) to increase growing space for conifers
- Replanting the site with native conifers including Douglas fir and redwood
After restoration, the forest will consist mostly of conifers with larger, more widely spaced trees and a look more similar to the forest that existed before the area was settled.
Forest without restoration, after 50 years
Forest with restoration, after 50 years
Project Updates
Protection of Watercourses
EIR scoping results in further refinement and improvement of project by reducing environmental impacts - all previously proposed farming where there are Class III watercourses now to be eliminated from proposal
