Join Sanctuary Forest on Saturday, August 24th for the Beauty of the Lost Coast Hike. Led by John & Susie Jennings and Sanctuary Forest Board member Eric Shafer, this hike is typically a rigorous all-day hike in the Sinkyone Wilderness State Park, but due to winter storm damage, the road is closed until further notice. We are […]

Please tune in to KMUD on Thursday, August 29th at 7pm for the Sanctuary Forest Radio Hour. Sanctuary Forest’s Water Program Director Tasha McKee will be joined by Charrna Gilmore, Executive Director of the Scott River Watershed Council, for a show about how humans can imitate beavers to achieve stream restoration goals! Tasha and Charrna […]

Join Sanctuary Forest on Saturday, September 7, for the Big Red: Ancient Redwood Hike. The hike will be led by Sanctuary Forest board member Stuart Moskowitz and long-time restorationist Richard Gienger. It will be held in a section of virgin Mattole headwaters forest, untouched by logging and rarely entered by humans. Hike leaders will take participants from […]

Join Sanctuary Forest on Saturday, September 14, for the Streamflow Enhancement Hike. The hike will be led by SFI Water Program Director Tasha McKee, MSG restorationist Campbell Thompson, BLM geologist Sam Flanagan, and USFWS hydrologist Conor Shea. This team has been working together for almost a decade, and will present a dynamic discussion about learning from nature […]

Please join Sanctuary Forest on Saturday, September 28 for our last hike of the season, the Restoration Forestry Hike, led by Timothy Metz of Restoration Forestry, Inc. and Jared Gerstein of BBW Associates. This year’s hike will be deep in the headwaters of the Mattole River along the watershed divide with the South Fork Eel’s Indian Creek sub-basin. […]

Sanctuary Forest and Lost Coast Interpretive Association are teaming up again with California State Parks for the third year in a row to remove French broom and other invasive species in the Sinkyone Wilderness State Park! We’ll be removing French broom (a relative of Scotch broom), as well as some eucalyptus and black acacia. Hand […]

Please tune in to KMUD on Thursday, January 30th at 7:00 p.m. for the Sanctuary Forest Radio Hour. Sanctuary Forest’s Education Director Anna Rogers will be joined by Walker Wise, Water Program Assistant, and Cheryl Lisin of Lost Coast Interpretive Association to talk about a variety of exciting upcoming Sanctuary Forest, LCIA and KRA events […]

Mattole Field Institute presents a Elephant Seal Ecology Hike on February 8th led by Dawn Goley, HSU marine mammal biologist. Did you know the King Range National Conservation Area is home to a fast-growing elephant seal colony? Come get a close look at one of the biggest and noisiest wild creatures with whom we share […]