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SHASTA TIMBERLANDS WORKING FOREST CONSERVATION EASEMENT PROJECT

Straddling the crest that divides the Sacramento and Klamath River basins, the Shasta Timberlands Working Forest protects the headwaters of these mighty rivers. The property encompasses the high ridges along the northeastern flank of Mount Shasta and the meadows and springs that feed clean, cold water into these essential watersheds.

Pacific Forest Trust, TC&I Shasta, LLC, the landowner, and its forest manager Campbell Global, LLC, are working in partnership to establish a 9,125-acre conservation easement that will sustain the property as working forest and secure lasting connections with millions of acres of the neighboring Shasta and Klamath National Forests. This is a rare opportunity to create a vast, integrated expanse that will be actively managed for climate resiliency, critical wildlife habitats, increased carbon stores, reduced risks of wildfire, and water security for fish, farms and people — all while supporting the resource-based economy of a disadvantaged county. By maintaining this spectacular property — 10 times the size of Golden Gate Park — in private ownership, management guided by the conservation easement will protect these resources on behalf of the public at a fraction of the cost of public ownership while ensuring continued private investment in the property’s long-term stewardship. This is an exemplary An Awesome Volcanic Landscape partnership that promises integrated solutions to Bursting with Life environmental challenges at a landscape scale. Abundant springs emerge amid rocky spires and cinder cones, feed by deep winter snows. Large, rare alpine wet meadows spread below talus slopes and form the headwaters of many creeks and lush riparian habitats below. The property includes much of Ash Creek Butte, an 8,360’ shield volcano fringed by alpine fell-fields, subalpine conifers, and rare montane chaparral communities. Thousands of acres of diverse, well-managed conifer forests carpet the slopes, dominated by Shasta red fir and white fir and interspersed with mountain hemlock, lodgepole pine, sugar pine, incense cedar, and ponderosa pine. SHASTA TIMBERLANDS WORKING FOREST CONSERVATION EASEMENT PROJECT

Stronghold for Wildlife in a Hotter, there to farms and cities as far away as San Diego. Drier Antelope Creek also emerges from the property, an abundant water source for irrigated agriculture in As climate is changing, Mt. Shasta is an essential the Klamath basin. This project will ensure these crossroads for species on the move, connecting the headwaters remain undisturbed, with secure flows Modoc Plateau and Cascades and Klamath ranges critical to all Californians. with the Klamath and Sacramento basins. Shasta Timberlands plays a key ecological role within the checkerboard of National Forest that surrounds it. Forestry for Climate and Community With slopes that rise more than 3,000’ in elevation Resilience and aspects facing all directions, together with Guided by the terms of the conservation easement, abundant water, the property’s tremendous productive forestry on Shasta Timberlands will variation in habitats provides plants and wildlife continue to provide sustainably harvested wood and with significant options as they seek to adapt to local jobs critical to Siskiyou County. Forestry is also climate change. an indispensable tool in realizing the project’s goals for a healthy, resilient headwaters forest better able The property’s biodiversity is highly ranked to withstand wildfire, drought, and climate stress. statewide by the California Dept. of Fish and Active forest management will emphasize diverse Wildlife, supporting an estimated 250 species of forest stands, with more large trees and fewer fish, wildlife, and plants, including 25 imperiled small ones. This will also enhance habitat quality species such as northern spotted owl, fisher, and protect watershed function. Timber harvest will Pacific marten, Cascade frog, and the McCloud always be less than what the forest can regrow in a River redband trout. Gray wolf is known to use the decade, resulting in the permanent storage of more property, too. The proposed conservation easement atmospheric carbon than before. designates 3,000 acres — a third of the property — to be managed solely for special habitat values. World-Class Recreational Opportunities Securing Cold Water Flows for People Shasta Timberlands is integral to the Mount Shasta and Wildlife outdoors experience. The connections with surrounding National Forest, the nearby Wilderness Mount Shasta reaches high to capture passing Area and the Brewer Creek trailhead to the summit storms, yielding dependable snow and rain on enhance recreational options for local people and Shasta Timberlands. This cold water pours out visitors. The conservation easement will assure from springs that feed year-round tributaries to the non-motorized, day-time access by the public. McCloud River, flowing into Shasta Lake and from

THE PRESIDIO FOR MORE INFORMATION CONTACT: 1001-A O’Reilly Avenue Constance Best, PFT Co-Founder and Co-CEO San Francisco, CA 94129 415-561-0700 x19 or [email protected] www.PacificForest.org Proposed Shasta Timberlands Conservation Easement Project Location

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