Revitalized and Protected Forest
Preparing to plant over 1 million trees
Preservation Ranch will revitalize and protect its forest by planting over 1 million trees and by creating a One Forest management plan and conservation easement covering all 14,868 forested acres. These offer a guarantee that the property will be managed wisely and that important conservation and resource protection goals will be carried out in perpetuity, overseen by third parties.
We're taking steps to ensure that Sonoma County forests are here for future generations.
Our conservation and management vision includes these goals:
- To unify the timber resource as One Forest, addressing its current fragmented condition
- To manage the timber resource in a sustainable and environmentally sensitive manner
- To seek third-party certification of our conservation and protection efforts
- To create an ecologically complex forest that provdes enhanced wildlife habitat
- To reduce fire hazard within the forest
- To increase carbon storage, contributing to the fight against global warming
- To provide increased local employment and a significant contribution to Sonoma County's economy
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