Join us on Thursday May 2nd at the Pine Grove Community House in Manzanita from 6-8:30 pm for “Rooted Together,” an event to kindle more connection and community around the conservation of our Pacific Northwest forests.
During the event, you will see a screening of award-winning filmmaker Jesse Clark’s new documentary short. “Lasting Legacies” is the first chapter of a series entitled Forest Stories.
About “Lasting Legacies”: A movement is born when one community’s drinking water source is threatened – and Washington State must weigh economic gain against the protection of their last tracts of carbon-sequestering mature forests.
At this event, there will also be a special reading by Paul Koberstein from his recent book, “Canopy of Titans” as well as a brief presentation by Coast Range Association’s Chuck Willer. The evening will include a live Q+A with panelists including North Coast Communities for Watershed Protection and Lower Nehalem Community Trust event sponsors. There will be plenty of time for wine, cheese, and lots of intermingling of citizens and grassroots environmental groups! You’ll get to hear from NCCWP, Lower Nehalem Community Trust, and Coast Range Association, among others, about what they’ve been up to.
Here’s some more background on Forest Stories:
For centuries, the Pacific Northwest has been the world’s ‘wood basket’. But for the first time in 50 years, Washington State – the ‘Evergreen State’ – is less than 50% forested. But a hopeful new classification of mature forest is now gaining momentum as a promising solution to help mitigate climate impacts worldwide. Dubbed ‘Legacy Forests,’ these naturally-regrown, non-industrial 2nd growth forests hold some of the biggest unprotected trees on the landscape with the most carbon storage potential– and they could be the next old growth forests, if left standing.
The Washington State Department of Natural Resources, responsible for funding schools, counties, and other services with money from cut timber, have set their sights on saving these patches of larger, diverse stands of evergreen trees. If logged, they would be converted to plantation “forests.”
For More Information: Jesse at OLDGROVEFILMS.COM
As a matter of necessity and regardless of land ownership, NCCWP demands no more logging and no more pesticide spraying within our drinking-watersheds. Safe drinking water and clean air are part of the public trust that we all are entitled to have. Please help North Coast Communities for Watershed Protection safeguard and restore our drinking watersheds.
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