Causes: Environment, Forest Conservation, Land Resources Conservation

Mission:
The purpose of Sempervirens Fund is to protect and permanently protect and preserve coast redwood (Sequoia sempervirens) forests, wildlife habitat, watersheds, and other important natural and scenic features of California’s Santa Cruz Mountains, and to encourage public appreciation and enjoyment of this environment.

Results: Since our founding in 1900, Sempervirens Fund has protected more than 35,000 acres of redwood forests; planted more than 93,000 trees; and built and maintained more than 60 miles of hiking trails in the Santa Cruz Mountains.

Target demographics: Sempervirens Fund serves our partnering agencies and organizations, including California State Parks and Peninsula Open Space Trust; residents of the nearby communities of Boulder Creek, Felton, and the entire Bay Area; and countless thousands of visitors from around the world who come to experience the last remaining redwood forests on earth.

Direct beneficiaries per year: Many species of wildlife, flora, and fauna. Thousands of visitors and local residents.

Geographic areas served: Santa Cruz Mountains; Santa Cruz, Santa Clara, and San Mateo Counties

Programs: The habitats, waterways, and resiliency of the Santa Cruz Mountain region are at risk without healthy, connected coast redwood forests. Our tools: conservation and restoration, forged by foresight. Acre by protected acre, and with your support, we purchase, restore, and safeguard redwood forests in the Santa Cruz Mountains, ensuring they will never be developed, degraded, or destroyed. Protecting the remaining old-growth redwoods and second-growth redwood forests relies on your support, cutting-edge science, and robust and dynamic partnerships with public agencies and landowners, to ensure public parks and protected forests are unified into a resilient, protected, and thoughtfully-managed system.