MENDOCINO Co., 12/9/21 — One of the largest stretches of unprotected coastline in the redwood region near the Usal Redwood Forest is up for sale, and conservationists want to buy the property they call the Lost Coast Redwoods. But in order to carry out their plans of restoring the industrial logging area to old growth forest, they have to raise almost $30 million before the end of this year.
Save the Redwoods League announced Thursday it had secured an agreement to buy 5 miles of undeveloped coastline in northern Mendocino County from timberland owner Soper Company, but the nonprofit will only be able to purchase the 3,181-acre property if it can raise the $36.9 million asking price by Dec. 31. The San Francisco-based nonprofit already raised $10 million of that sum as of the announcement Thursday, leaving $26.9 million to go. Yet this is such a rare opportunity that the nonprofit isn’t going to let it slip out of its fingers, Becky Bremser, the league’s director of land protection, told The Mendocino Voice.
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