Sempervirens Fund works to protect and permanently preserve redwood (Sequoia sempervirens) forests, wildlife habitat, watersheds, and other important natural and scenic features of California’s Santa Cruz mountains, and to encourage public appreciation and enjoyment of this environment.
External link for Sempervirens Fund
P.O. Box 1417
Los Altos, California 94023, US
🌲Who are we and what do we do? With more than a century of history behind us, there’s lots to learn about Sempervirens Fund, but our mission is simple: we preserve redwoods and their broader ecosystem through land stewardship. 📸 Swipe through to learn what that means, and how you help to preserve tens of thousands of acres of natural California habitat!
Like all terrestrial forests, redwood forests are both directly and indirectly supported by expansive networks of fungi. All around the world, in soils and organic tissues (logs, leaves, decaying animals, etc.), there are fungi living mostly invisibly. Some species of fungi produce mushrooms, or fruiting bodies, which are the spore-bearing organs of a fungus. Just a few of the crucial functions fungi perform: 🍄 Provide nourishment directly as a food source to animals 🍄 Offer habitat for invertebrates and other small creatures 🍄 Support new life through nutrient recycling 🍄 Break down lignin and cellulose from plant matter 🍄 Decompose animal remains The next time you visit the forest remember to look down to discover these “underground allies” of the redwoods. Meet the Mushrooms of San Vicente Redwoods: https://lnkd.in/gb2rhE-z 📸 Orenda Randuch
Dream big, know you are resilient. Let the redwoods inspire you... . . . . #redwoods #santacruzmountains #motivation
Happy New Year! In 2025, we’re marking 125 years of protecting coast redwood forests in the Santa Cruz Mountains and the rich diversity of life that thrives here. We hope you’ll join us! #redwoods #santacruzmountains #norcal #wildlife #naturephotography #naturelovers
It's almost the new year! This marks the last day of charitable giving for 2024, so why not help preserve our beloved redwoods to round out your taxable donations for the year? https://lnkd.in/gzVpZN6J
In Curiosity Stories Season 2, join field recordist Thomas Rex Beverly as he hears the old-growth redwood grove known as the "Valley of the Giants," located at YMCA Camp Jones Gulch. The entire episode, as well as the episodes from Season 1, are available at https://lnkd.in/gp848GSU Curiosity Stories is produced in collaboration with Bone and Gold; featured recording technology includes Sennheiser.
With your support, we are able to carefully care for the redwood forests, resetting their natural systems, and helping them return to nature. One way we steward the redwood forest is by removing unmaintained roads. Roads provide necessary access to the forest for stewardship, wildlife monitoring, and for emergency crews like firefighters. But unmaintained roads can add to the erosion of mountainsides fragile after the CZU Fire and the extreme winter storms that followed. With fewer plants to help hold soil in place, dirt roads can wash out, taking away the soil the recovering forest needs, and muddying critical water sources we and wildlife need. This year, we were able to “rock” crucial access roads—establishing beds of crushed gravel—and decommission unnecessary roads to reduce soil erosion, improve water quality, and give the space back to the forest. Read "A Stewardship Story: Return to Nature" here: https://lnkd.in/gerXTRbn
In 2024, Sempervirens Fund launched a new Forest Fellowship program. Through this program, Sempervirens Fund invites creative and curious thinkers to explore redwoods with us, tell their and the community’s stories, and deepen our insights into what makes redwoods so vital to the natural world and the humanity within. The inaugural Forest Fellow is Jane Kim, a visual artist, science illustrator, and the founder of Ink Dwell studio. Together, Sempervirens Fund and Kim have already collaborated on visual illustrations for a series of reports on the intersection of redwood trees and climate change, as well as Curiosity Stories films about Kim’s journey to create new works of art inspired by the cut rounds of an old-growth redwood stump. Meet Jane Kim: https://lnkd.in/g9pCJU6b
Año Nuevo Vista is located within the largest remaining intact habitat patch in the Santa Cruz mountains. Nestled between Año Nuevo State Park, Big Basin Redwoods State Park, and Butano State Park, it’s just one parcel away from Big Basin to the east and shares a border with protected Skylark Ranch to the south. Año Nuevo Vista is key to connecting protected habitats for wildlife and protected park lands for people. Landscapes fragmented by human development impact the health of forests, watersheds, and wildlife. By protecting Año Nuevo Vista’s 41 acres, we improved connectivity between 62,000 acres of protected land. Learn more about this special place: https://lnkd.in/g7r3uKVB