MAJOR LAND ACQUISITIONS

Thanks to our members over the last 90 years, Save the Redwoods League has saved 181,000 acres of forests and the landscapes that support them in 59 redwood parks and reserves. Here are examples of our major acquisitions.

• We negotiated the purchase of the 25,000-acre Mill Creek forest, now part of Del Norte Coast Redwoods State Park, protecting the watershed that supports some of the most spectacular ancient groves left - those of Jedediah Smith Redwoods State Park.

• We acquired 11,856 acres for our Corridor from the Redwoods to the Sea project between Humboldt Redwoods State Park (HRSP), Gilham Butte Late Seral Reserve and the King Range National Conservation Area. Most of this Corridor land has been transferred to the U.S. Bureau of Land Management for protection, and some will remain in private hands. All land protected by the Save the Redwoods is subject to permanent use limitations.
• In 1921, Save the Redwoods created Humboldt Redwoods State Park, home of the Earth's tallest forest. Since then, we have protected more than 50,000 acres in the park.

• We more than doubled Montgomery Woods State Natural Reserve, with the purchase of 1,200 acres. Montgomery Woods is home to one of the world's tallest trees. We helped create the Reserve in 1945.

• We transferred Dillonwood Grove, 1,540 acres containing the largest grove of privately owned giant sequoias, to Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks.