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2009
PACIFIC FOREST TRUST
ANNUAL REPORT
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ON THE COVER: Clockwise from top: Cascade-Siskiyou National Monume
(The Soda Mountain Wilderness Council); Families and friends celebrate
forests in Mendocino County, Calif.; Employees sorting in the Kane Hardw
Dimension Mill (The Collins Companies); McCloud Falls, Calif. THIS PAGE:
Top: Appalachian Mountains, Tenn.; Left: Bald Eagle, Wa. (Paula Swedeen
CAMPAIGN TO COMPLETE THE VISION
the Pacifc Forest Trust, like those we partner
with, went into 2009 prepared to weather some
tough economic times. Many in the orest and
conservation communities struggled with allout rom the
global fnancial upheaval. Yet PFT was able to make remarkable
progress in conserving our nations natural landscapes and
the myriad benefts they provide: wood, water, wildlie and a
well-balanced climate.
Forests touch people every day, whether they realize it or not.
When we turn on the aucet, how oten do we remember the
water that flows orth was carried rom the mountains by
way o a orested watershed? Even the air we breathe has been
cleansed by the orest landscape, as it stabilizes the climate
that makes our planet livable.
Increasingly, our eorts to build awareness o the vital services
orests provide and what must be done to conserve and
steward them has been paying o. Shared purpose and
strong partnerships have been invaluable to our success, as
we expand the scope o our eorts throughout the country
and grow our network o orest champions.
In this annual report we are proud to share the highlights of
this important work and voices of those who support it.
Cheers to the Pacifc Forest
Trust and the Bureau o Land
Management or their eorts
to transer private land in the
Cascade-Siskiyou National
Monument to public ownership.
The Trust has been buying parcels o private land within
the Monument rom willing sellers [primarily timber
companies] since the Monument was created in 2000...
It makes sense to convert as much Monument land as
possible to public ownership so the land can be protected
The Mail Tribune Editorial Board, Jan. 29, 2009
Common Purpose
I am pleased to commend
Wayburn and Best or theirleadership and tremendous
contributions to the national
dialogue on orests and climate by
providing a strategy or achieving
real, verifable carbon reductions
while also contributing to the development o programs
and policies that will enhance legislative and regulatory
climate change reduction goals. Mary Nichols, California Air Resources Board Chair
In Forests We Find
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A Trusted Source of Policy Expertise
PFT has long advocated or conservation solutions
that acknowledge and reward orest landowners
or providing ecosystem services, such as climate
stabilization and renewable energy. As widely recognized,
award-winning pioneers in this area, PFT provided
expertise to a remarkably diverse spectrum o audiencesin 2009, ranging rom the Department o Deense to Al
Gores Alliance or Climate Protection to international
carbon investors to Ivy League universities to state, local
and national government agencies. Last year, PFT traveled
as ar as Chile, Argentina and Copenhagen to speak about
the essential benefts orest landscapes provide and how we
can sustain them.
In 2009, awareness o these benefts reached critical mass
as the U.S. Department o Agriculture launched its Ofce
o Ecosystem Services and Markets, led by our 2006 Forest
Fete Keynote Speaker, Sally Collins. Soon ater, the newly
installed Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack began promoting
the USDAs new ecosystem services ocus in national media
and speeches around the country. USDA Deputy Under
Secretary Jay Jensen echoed Vilsacks message as our 2009
Forest Fete speaker.
Despite this rising awareness, our natural landscapes cannot
provide these valuable services i they have been developed
and converted to other uses a act we brought hometo policymakers through our state, regional and national
policy outreach.
In 2009, we pursued new avenues or leveraging existing
environmental quality laws to help mitigate the climate
impact o orest loss and degradation making signifcant
headway with policymakers and environmental quality
guidelines in Caliornia, Washington, Massachusetts
Maine, Maryland and New York. In addition, where state-
level environmental review regulations do not currently
exist, PFT worked collaboratively with our partners
to support new legislation that would recognize theenvironmental and climate impacts o development and
orest loss in particular.
Concurrently, we worked to develop strong standards or
quantiying and veriying the impact o orest-carbon projects
in compliance and voluntary markets. Such standards are
the essential oundation o a robust market or orest-based
carbon osets that will deliver real returns to landowners.
PFT has been a leader in the development of
regional policies that capture opportunities
for greenhouse gas reductions through forest
conservation and management. The Kresge
Foundation is pleased to be a supporter of
PFTs efforts to champion the role of forests
in the federal policy arena. John Nordgren,
Senior Program Ofcer, the Kresge Foundation
Received the U.S. Environmental
Protection Agencys 2009 Climate
Protection Award. In connection with the
honor, PFT co-founders Laurie Wayburn and
Connie Best joined a roundtable of national
and international climate leaders in
Washington, D.C. Photo: USDA Forest Service
The Pacifc Forest Trust has been a
leader in bringing together people to
think about and discuss the utureo Americas orests, particularly
private orests, and youve been a
great partner or the Forest Service,
especially the Forest Legacy Program
or many years. Id like to thank Laurie Wayburn and
Connie Best or their enduring leadership in promoting
opportunities and options or protecting private orests and
or keeping them working orests providing a sustainable
source o wood, water, wildlie and a well-balanced climate.
Jay Jensen, USDA Deputy Under Secretary
or Agriculture
2009 HigHligHts
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Gained inclusion of our top three recommendations
for forest and climate policy in versions of federal energy
and climate legislation now under consideration by lawmakers.
Formed a broad-based national coalition of landowners,
foresters, conservation and environmental NGOs, mill owners
and market makers to advocate for the role natural landscapes
should play in meeting our nations energy and climate goals.
Showcased our successful model for market-bas
conservation incentives in prestigious publications
well as media interviews and presentations at lectur
workshops, conferences and climate talks across the Unit
States and abroad.
Launched new forest carbon emissions reductio
projects and initiatives in nine states around the count
We are delighted PFT will bring their deep bench of expertise to Carbon Canopy.
Developing a credible forest carbon project model for southern landowners is essential
to the success of this initiative and PFTs experience with pioneering projects and
standards in California will be immensely helpful to us as we move forward.
Dogwood Alliance Executive Director Danna Smith
The Environmental Protection Agency applauds the leadership o the Pacifc Forest Trust in
protecting our global environment. You have set the bar high, and or that, we thank you.
Dr. Kathleen Hogan, Director of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agencys Climate
Protection Partnerships Division
In 2009, PFT participated in several eorts to develop or
refne orest-carbon accounting standards with national
applicability. Our policy sta played a key role in the working
group that revised and expanded the nations leading
standards or orest carbon projects the Climate Action
Reserve (CAR) Forest Project Protocol. Now we are helping
others develop projects designed to meet this standard in
a number o states, including Virginia, Tennessee, Georgiaand Maine. These new initiatives represent major growth
in the national orest-carbon market landscape an
present an exciting opportunity to demonstrate o
orest stewardship model in other geographic region
At the ederal level, PFT has been heavily engaged
coalition building as well as outreach to legislators a
their sta. One o the most signifcant results has be
the ormation o our diverse coalition o working lan
advocates. Members include some o the nations large
land and mill owners and many smaller, amily-or
owners. Conservation groups and market investo
too, have signed on to the eort, which has provida strong and growing base o support or our outrea
in 2010.
PFT Co-CEO Connie Best speaks with landowners at th
Jones Ecological Research Center at Ichauway, Ga.
From left: Lyme Timber Company General Partner Peter Stein, Senator Stabenows
Legislative Counsel Chris Adamo, and PFT President and Co-CEO Laurie Wayburn.
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A Trusted Provider of Conservationand Stewardship Services
in 2009, PFT embarked on new working orest
conservation easement projects with major timber-
producers and ranching amiles to saeguard the land
and livelihoods across Calornias vital wood basketregion, the Klamath-Cascade. Spanning 9.8 million
acres rom Caliornia
to Oregon, the region
contains some o the
most diverse and
productive conierous
orests in the world
and is a source o
drinking water or
more than 22 million
Caliornians. Oncecomplete, these
easements will ensure
more than 100,000
acres will remain
orested, providing
wood, water, wildlie
and a well-balanced
climate in perpetuity.
In 2009 we completed extensive research and interviews or
a Klamath-Cascade Greenprint for the Future. Intended as a
roadmap to a sustainable, orest resource-based uture or the
region, the Greenprint report will be fnalized in the comingyear with input and support rom a stakeholder advisory
council were convening.
At the southern tip o the Klamath-Cascade the Sierra
Valley region weve joined with local ranching amilies
to create a conservation corr idor o more than 7,775 acres
where the headwaters o the Feather River orm the largest
alpine wetland in North America. This arc o conserved
lands protects the critical lands where the upland orests
flow into the wet meadows o the valley bottomlands. In
2009 we made signifcant progress on our new Sierra
Valley easement projects that w ill conserve an addit ional
4,400 acres.
In these ocal areas and others, our conservation and
stewardship sta reached out to landowners, local
agencies and oresters. They also organized workshops,
built partnerships and solved problems as part o the
work they do to monitor and provide stewardship services
on 21 properties in Caliornia, Oregon and Washington.
Celebrated a major milestone in our Campaign to
Complete the Vision of a more fully conserved Cascade-
Siskiyou National Monument (CSNM), with the transfer of
1,700 acres to public ownership for the CSNM.
Fulfilled the vision of PFTs first easement donor
and longtime supporter Bea Breese, with the bequest
of her beloved Outlet Creek Ranch, a 600-acre property
in Mendocino we are now managing as a model of ourstewardship forestry techniques. (Photo right)
Forged an agreement with several partners to purchase
Stewarts Point Ranch, a historic redwood property
stretching from the Gualala River to Californias Sonoma Coast.
Generated sustainable revenues from forest manage-
ment and carbon sales on Van Eck Forest lands PFT actively
manages in California and Oregon despite the years
economic turmoil.
The Pacifc Forest Trust has been
a great partner in the long struggle
weve ought to conserve land within
the Monument. The Monuments
unique biological diversity is a ragile
treasure that we cant let slip away.
A key step in that process will be
working with the BLM to acquire these critical lands so
that they will beneft our environment and our country or
generations to come. Senator Ron Wyden (D-Ore.)
AP Photo/Jeff Barnard
2009 HigHligHts
Outlet Creek Ranch
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NOTE: Unaudited fnancials subject to auditor adjustments. The audited 2009 fnancial summary will be available on our website in the summer.
Complete fnancial statements and an independent auditors report will also be available upon request at that time.
Expenses: $2,384,967Programs: $1,904,987 (80%)
General and
Administrative: $270,671 (11%)
Fundraising: $209,309 (9%)
Outlook for 2010
$500,000
$1,500,000
$2,500,000
$0
-$500,000
Income: $2,018,739Foundation Grants for Operations: $1,075,038
Individual and Business Donations: $289,348
Fee for Services & Government Grants: $312,397
Investment & Interest Income: $512,097
Change in Valuation of Charitable Trust: ($182,963)
Other Income: $12,822
At a time when unemployment and political strie
dominate the headlines, the Pacifc Forest Trust
is steadily building bipartisan consensus around
the need to sustain and conserve our working lands and their
contributions to local livelihoods, economies and cultures.
With our partners, were continuing to serve as persistent,passionate advocates or orests in the communities where
we work, in the media and in the nations capital. In 2010
weve already gained considerable traction with national
lawmakers, including the primary architects o the energy
and climate bill now under review by the Senate.
Our efforts radiate from a central set of
recommendations for how policies governing
sustainable land use, environmental quality and
energy security can stem the tide of forest loss.
These include mitigation and investment in our
land infrastructure, accurately accounting for the
carbon stored in U.S. forests; and the creation of
a robust, high-quality offset market for emissions
reductions from forests.
In 2010 were making progress in the following key areas:
Working with a strong coalition to advance
ederal legislation that will conserve our natural
landscapes and their ability to provide green jobs, renewa
energy and climate benefts.
Building up the market or high-quality carbon emissio
reductions by developing new projects around the U.S. th
leverage our past successes.
Mitigating the climate impacts o orest loss with st
evironmental quality act measures.
Closing on key easements in Caliornias Sierra Val
and advancing other major projects that will conser
more than 100,000 acres in the Klama
Cascade region and bring new income
orest landowners.
Transerring more than 3,000 acres to pub
ownership in Oregons Cascade-Siskiyou NationMonument.
Developing a new strategic plan or 20
through 2013.
Unveiling PFTs radiant new visual identi
including a new website and logo (see let).
2009 FinAnciAl Review
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$100,000 and Up $50,000 $99,999
We grateully acknowledge the ollowing individuals, oundations and businesses that helped make our work in 2009 possible.*
Thank You
Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation
Kresge Foundation
Richard & Rhoda Goldman Fund
Meyer Memorial Trust**
Robertson Foundation
Bella Vista Foundation
The Energy Foundation
James Irvine Foundation
Merck Family Fund
S.D. Bechtel, Jr. Foundation
$25,000 $49,999Compton Foundation, Inc.
Dogwood AllianceJames and Rebecca Morgan Family Foundation
R. Howard Dobbs FoundationCharlie & Darci Swindells
William Laney Thornton/Flora L.Thornton FoundationTown Creek Foundation, Inc.
$10,000 $24,999The Ayrshire FoundationAllan & Marilyn BrownHarney & Sons Fine TeasHeller Charitable &
Educational FundJohn & Elaine French Family
FoundationLaird Norton Family Foundation
The Libra FoundationDixon Long/Springcreek
Foundation
Margaret A. Cargill FoundationMarisla FoundationNational Park TrustNancy NordhoOrchard FoundationResources Legacy Fund
FoundationGregory & Daphne TebbeKarie & David ThomsonWeeden Foundation
$5,000 $9,999Cherida Collins Smith &
Glenn SmithTruman & Kristin CollinsCommunity Foundation
Sonoma Countys SchulzDonor Advised Fund
Peter DavisKongsgaard-Goldman
FoundationLinden Trust or ConservationKirk Marckwald & Chris DesserGilman & Marge Ordway
Pacic Gas and ElectricCompany
Walter & Jeanne SedgwickTimothy & Billie Taylor/
EcohausAndrea & Don TuttleSearle Whitney
$1,000 $4,999Autodesk, Inc.
Benson Woodworking CompanyConstance BestPeter Boyer & Terry Gamble
The Campbell GroupDonald M. Campbell
The Collins CompaniesEvolution Markets
John & Laura Fisher
Fullerton Family FoundationAlison GeballeJohn Graham & Katherine
Munro/Knox Family FoundationGreen Mountain Energy
CompanyHancock Timber Resource Group
Edmund Hayes, Jr
Mrs. A. Carl HelmholzGeorge HelmholzMaurice & Janice HollowayHumboldt Redwood Company,
LLCK&L Gates, LLPRobert & Edie Kirkwood
Nancy Kittle
Perry & Tricia LloydLyme Timber CompanyMendocino Redwood CompanyMark MillerStephen & Amanda MorrisNational Fish and Wildlie
Foundation
Timothy & Ulrike Pirrung
Pisces FoundationLinda SanordWilliam & Claudia StelleSullivan & Worcester LLPCynthia WayburnLaurie A. WayburnW.M. Beaty & Associates, Inc.
$500 $999Hans & Marian BaldauLeslie & Doug BallingerAnthony & Carol BoutardJoseph BunkerLew & Sheana ButlerNorman Christensen, on behal
o Laurie WayburnTerry & Barbara Collins
Henry & Vergilia DakinSandy Dean & Cathy
Cockrum-DeanJulie DickersonBetsy & Jesse Fink FundRobert Flint, JrDavid Frenznick
Kass Green & Gene ForsburgAnn HatchCarrie HoytBill HuttonLand Trust AllianceJulie LydickChristopher Mann
Prairie FoundationJudson M. ParsonsHoliday Phelan-Johnson &
Christopher JohnsonRedtree Properties LPGeorge & Anita ThompsonSteve & Renee Thompson
Frank & Frances Reynolds TsaiSteve Van Landingham &
Matthew OGradyJohn C. WalkerEdgar Wayburn, M.D.Mariquita West, M.D. &
Celia Thompson-Taupin
$250 $499Stephen & Terry BeckGreg BlomstromPatricia & Jim BranhamLeslie Walker & Walter BurlockJulia Dakin & Jon FrechEight Arms Cellars
Michael Gallagher &Ruth Shapiro
Lorraine GallardDr. Keith GillessCharles HendersonGary Hendrix
Nancy Hoopes &Alison Pachynski
Arne HultgrenBetsy JewettJacques & Leslie LeslieJoshua MargolisDan Martin
Martha NelsonJames M. PeaGeorge Peyton, Jr.James Rinehart & Carol FinkelsteinMartin & Joan RosenHal J. SalwasserSealaska Corporation
Bob KingmanSandra Slater & Drew MaranGary & Carol TorreBrooks Walker IIIKirby WalkerWilliam WayburnGeorgia Westdahl
$100 $249Michael & Susan AddisonSally BinghamAmy ChesnutEd & Kerry CooperPaul & Anne Ehrlich
Theodore & Patricia EliotJames P. FinertyGeorge Gaines & Mary Moore
Green Diamond ResourceCompany
Chantz JoyceGus Kauman Jr.Samuel & Cindy LivermoreSylvia McLaughlinOsha Meserve
Amy MeyerKarla NemethJim & Lisa NicolJennier NiedermeyerEdward OBrien &
Patricia HickeyJuliet PageGabe Petlin
Bettina RingAlicia RobbinsDr. Je RommLeo RoyCarrie SantiSahara SaudeElizabeth Sedgwick
Peter StentTania & Michael StepanianDoug WickizerPatrice WinchesterKirke WoleElizabeth WroblickaDelphine Zeuli
$1 $99Marion Boggs III &
Clara Thomas BoggsPeggy C. CampbellPeter DeLucchiMatt Fehrenbacher
Thelma & Charles GilmurRonald & Derry GodarMarty & Joyce GrinLaura HamiltonJohn & Mary Ellen Harte
Marianna Kauman & DianaAleman, in honor o EdgarWayburn and Marian Kaufman
Melvin KrebJohn LaughlinKonrad J. Liegel
Dan LuomaWilliam & Janet McLennanElaine McMasterPatrick NoonanDan OlsteinMargit & Richard Roos-Collins
Melanie J. RowlandJoan Rubenson, on behal o
Simon Lucas KaglePaula SwedeenLaurie TippinEd & Jeanette Ueber
In-Kind DonationsAnsel Adams Gallery/Yosemite
National ParkAlexander Valley VineyardsCaliornia SnowDawn Patrol Images
Frey VineyardsHarney & Sons Fine TeasJohn Bentleys RestaurantLagunitas Brewing Company
Tom Lupo & Laura Harvey
Madroa VineyardsMethod ProductsMTR WesternNavarro Vineyards and WineryPatagonia
Phillips Bros. MillRikki PirrungRavenswood WinerySaintsbury WinerySan Francisco Hat Company
San Francisco SymphonySees CandiesSOAR InfatablesSoluri Meserve, A Law CorporationSports BasementVirgin America
**Capital acquisition
*List o supporters represents donations PFT receivedbetween January 1, 2009 and January 1, 2010.
Please visit www.pacifcorest.org/partners.html or a listing o the Pacifc Forest Trusts clients.
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