We have apparently gotten lucky this year with a relatively quiet fire season. Our neighbors to the north in the Smith River and Klamath watersheds have suffered major fires and our best wishes to them. Here we can breathe a sigh of relief but we shouldn’t drop our efforts to make our communities safer. Winter…

Updated: Schedule – October 4, 2023 Mark your calendars and spread the word. The 1st Regenerative Uprising is coming to Tan Oak Park October 6th through 9th. We’ll be teaching and sharing many skills essential to surviving and thriving in this place in the coming years. People can arrive and camp Friday night. Workshops all…

The Natural Building Workshop happened in late August and it’s been a whirlwind ever since as summer transitioned into autumn and everyone has been rushing to finish projects before winter.  Hence no report about the workshop here. We’ll have one out soon with lots of photos. The short report is that we had over 20…

We are hosting a five day Natural Building Workshop August 21st to 25th at Tan Oak Park south of Leggett, CA. Participants will help build a small camping cabin made of poles, clay, and straw while also learning how to build furniture for it from poles gathered from forest thinning projects. Michael Smith, famed natural…

We are excited to announce that we will be hosting a comprehensive and hands-on forest health community event at Tan Oak Park on Saturday April 29th starting at 10am. The day will include: – forest health assessment with a forester– chainsaw safety class– biochar demonstration– pole-peeling workshop– fuel reduction work-party– small diameter pole furniture demo&…

As I write this, we approach Spring Equinox but you would not know it looking out my window. The four plus feet of snow are slowly melting, pushed by the four plus inches of rain in the last two days. The surface of the snow is littered with nature’s prunings— tree branches, needles, bark, lichen,…

One of the goals of the NM-ERA is to help develop a local workforce to do the real work of bringing our forests back into good health. There is so much work to be done and so many people needing meaningful work. We aim to bring them together. Toward that end, we are conducting an…

Greetings Friends of the NM-ERA! We hope that 2023 is starting well for you. We are busy celebrating our first year as an organization, planning the year ahead, and writing grants. A brief recap of 2022 with the Northern Mendocino Ecosystem Recovery Alliance: We founded the NM-ERA (read more here). We hosted a series of…

Our first spring event series is long over. We’ve moved on to further work and will share news about new developments soon. Meanwhile our very own Cheyenne Clarke wrote a recap of our events in the Summer edition of Forest & Rivers News. Enjoy and check out the rest of the issue too. Community workshops…

On Saturday May 14th we will host the 4th event in our series of spring field trips and explorations into fire resilience and forest health. This time we take on how to prepare for fire as a community. We’ll meet at a private residence on Woodman Peak Road where the owner is working on shaded…