2009

ANNUAL REPORT
PACIFIC FOREST TRUST
 In Forests We Find
Common Purpose

t he Pacific Forest Trust, like those we partner

with, went into 2009 prepared to weather some
tough economic times. Many in the forest and
conservation communities struggled with fallout from the
global financial upheaval. Yet PFT was able to make remarkable
“I am pleased to commend
Wayburn and Best for their
leadership and tremendous
progress in conserving our nation’s natural landscapes and contributions to the national
the myriad benefits they provide: wood, water, wildlife and a dialogue on forests and climate by
well-balanced climate. providing a strategy for achieving
real, verifiable carbon reductions
Forests touch people every day, whether they realize it or not. while also contributing to the development of programs
When we turn on the faucet, how often do we remember the
and policies that will enhance legislative and regulatory
water that flows forth was carried from the mountains by
climate change reduction goals.”
way of a forested watershed? Even the air we breathe has been
cleansed by the forest landscape, as it stabilizes the climate – Mary Nichols, California Air Resources Board Chair
that makes our planet livable.

Increasingly, our efforts to build awareness of the vital services “Cheers — to the Pacific Forest
forests provide — and what must be done to conserve and Trust and the Bureau of Land
steward them — has been paying off. Shared purpose and Management for their efforts
CAMPAIGN TO COMPLETE THE VISION
strong partnerships have been invaluable to our success, as
to transfer private land in the
we expand the scope of our efforts throughout the country
Cascade-Siskiyou National
and grow our network of forest champions.
Monument to public ownership.
In this annual report we are proud to share the highlights of The Trust has been buying parcels of private land within
this important work and voices of those who support it. the Monument from 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

ON THE COVER: Clockwise from top: Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument

(The Soda Mountain Wilderness Council); Families and friends celebrate
forests in Mendocino County, Calif.; Employees sorting in the Kane Hardwood
Dimension Mill (The Collins Companies); McCloud Falls, Calif. THIS PAGE:
Top: Appalachian Mountains, Tenn.; Left: Bald Eagle, Wa. (Paula Swedeen).
 A Trusted Source of Policy Expertise
P FT has long advocated for conservation solutions
that acknowledge and reward forest landowners
for 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 of audiences
in 2009, ranging from the Department of Defense to Al
Gore’s Alliance for Climate Protection to international
carbon investors to Ivy League universities to state, local
and national government agencies. Last year, PFT traveled
as far as Chile, Argentina and Copenhagen to speak about
the essential benefits forest landscapes provide and how we
can sustain them.
In 2009, awareness of these benefits reached critical mass
as the U.S. Department of Agriculture launched its Office
of Ecosystem Services and Markets, led by our 2006 Forest
Fete Keynote Speaker, Sally Collins. Soon after, the newly
installed Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack began promoting
the USDA’s new ecosystem services focus in national media
and speeches around the country. USDA Deputy Under
Secretary Jay Jensen echoed Vilsack’s message as our 2009
Forest Fete speaker.
“The Pacific Forest Trust has been a
leader in bringing together people to
think about and discuss the future
of America’s forests, particularly
private forests, and you’ve been a
great partner for the Forest Service,
especially the Forest Legacy Program
for many years. I’d like to thank Laurie Wayburn and
Connie Best for their enduring leadership in promoting
opportunities and options for protecting private forests and
for keeping them working forests — providing a sustainable
source of wood, water, wildlife and a well-balanced climate.”
– Jay Jensen, USDA Deputy Under Secretary
for Agriculture
“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
PFT’s efforts to champion the role of forests
in the federal policy arena.” – John Nordgren,
Senior Program Officer, the Kresge Foundation
Despite this rising awareness, our natural landscapes cannot
provide these valuable services if they have been developed
and converted to other uses — a fact we brought home
to policymakers through our state, regional and national
policy outreach.
In 2009, we pursued new avenues for leveraging existing
environmental quality laws to help mitigate the climate
impact of forest loss and degradation — making significant
headway with policymakers and environmental quality
guidelines in California, 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 the
environmental and climate impacts of development and
forest loss in particular.
Concurrently, we worked to develop strong standards for
quantifying and verifying the impact of forest-carbon projects
in compliance and voluntary markets. Such standards are
the essential foundation of a robust market for forest-based
carbon offsets that will deliver real returns to landowners.
2009 Highlights
Received the U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency’s 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 Environmental Protection Agency applauds the leadership of the Pacific Forest Trust in
protecting our global environment. You have set the bar high, and for that, we thank you.”
– Dr. Kathleen Hogan, Director of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Climate
Protection Partnerships Division

in the national forest-carbon market landscape and

present an exciting opportunity to demonstrate our
forest stewardship model in other geographic regions.

At the federal level, PFT has been heavily engaged in

From left: Lyme Timber Company General Partner Peter Stein, Senator Stabenow’s
Legislative Counsel Chris Adamo, and PFT President and Co-CEO Laurie Wayburn.
coalition building as well as outreach to legislators and
their staff. One of the most significant results has been
the formation of our diverse coalition of working lands
advocates. Members include some of the nation’s largest
land and mill owners and many smaller, family-forest
owners. Conservation groups and market investors,
too, have signed on to the effort, which has provided
a strong and growing base of support for our outreach
in 2010.

In 2009, PFT participated in several efforts to develop or

refine forest-carbon accounting standards with national
applicability. Our policy staff played a key role in the working
group that revised and expanded the nation’s leading
standards for forest 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 of states, including Virginia, Tennessee, Georgia
and Maine. These new initiatives represent major growth

“We are delighted PFT will bring their deep bench of expertise to Carbon Canopy. PFT Co-CEO Connie Best speaks with landowners at the
Jones Ecological Research Center at Ichauway, Ga.
Developing a credible forest carbon project model for southern landowners is essential
to the success of this initiative and PFT’s experience with pioneering projects and
standards in California will be immensely helpful to us as we move forward.”
– Dogwood Alliance Executive Director Danna Smith

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 nation’s energy and climate goals.
Showcased our successful model for market-based
conservation incentives in prestigious publications as
well as media interviews and presentations at lectures,
workshops, conferences and climate talks across the United
States and abroad.
Launched new forest carbon emissions reductions
projects and initiatives in nine states around the country.
 A Trusted Provider of Conservation
and Stewardship Services
i n 2009, PFT embarked on new working forest
conservation easement projects with major timber-
producers and ranching familes to safeguard the land
and livelihoods across Calfornia’s vital “wood basket’’
region, the Klamath-Cascade. Spanning 9.8 million
acres from California
to Oregon, the region
contains some of the
most diverse and
productive coniferous
forests in the world
and is a source of
drinking water for
more than 22 million
Californians. Once
complete, these
easements will ensure
more than 100,000
acres will remain
forested, providing
wood, water, wildlife
and a well-balanced
climate in perpetuity.
AP Photo/Jeff Barnard
In 2009 we completed extensive research and interviews for
a Klamath-Cascade Greenprint for the Future. Intended as a
roadmap to a sustainable, forest resource-based future for the
region, the Greenprint report will be finalized in the coming
year with input and support from a stakeholder advisory
council we’re convening.
At the southern tip of the Klamath-Cascade — the Sierra
Valley region — we’ve joined with local ranching families
to create a conservation corridor of more than 7,775 acres
where the headwaters of the Feather River form the largest
alpine wetland in North America. This arc of conserved
lands protects the critical lands where the upland forests
flow into the wet meadows of the valley bottomlands. In
2009 we made significant progress on four new Sierra
Valley easement projects that will conserve an additional
4,400 acres.
In these focal areas and others, our conservation and
stewardship staff reached out to landowners, local
agencies and foresters. They also organized workshops,
built partnerships and solved problems as part of the
work they do to monitor and provide stewardship services
on 21 properties in California, Oregon and Washington.

2009 HigHligHts “The Pacific Forest Trust has been

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 PFT’s 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 our
stewardship forestry techniques. (Photo right)
a great partner in the long struggle
we’ve fought to conserve land within
the Monument. The Monument’s
unique biological diversity is a fragile
treasure that we can’t let slip away.
A key step in that process will be
working with the BLM to acquire these critical lands so
that they will benefit our environment and our country for
generations to come.” – Senator Ron Wyden (D-Ore.)

Forged an agreement with several partners to purchase

Stewarts Point Ranch, a historic redwood property
stretching from the Gualala River to California’s 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 year’s
Outlet Creek Ranch
economic turmoil.
 Outlook for 2010
A t a time when unemployment and political strife
dominate the headlines, the Pacific 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.
landscapes and their ability to provide green jobs, renewable
energy and climate benefits.

Building up the market for high-quality carbon emissions

reductions by developing new projects around the U.S. that
With our partners, we’re continuing to serve as persistent, leverage our past successes.
passionate advocates for forests in the communities where
Mitigating the climate impacts of forest loss with state
we work, in the media and in the nation’s capital. In 2010
evironmental quality act measures.
we’ve already gained considerable traction with national
lawmakers, including the primary architects of the energy  losing on key easements in California’s Sierra Valley
C
and climate bill now under review by the Senate. and advancing other major projects that will conserve
more than 100,000 acres in the Klamath-
Our efforts radiate from a central set of
Cascade region and bring new income to
recommendations for how policies governing
forest landowners.
sustainable land use, environmental quality and
energy security can stem the tide of forest loss. Transferring more than 3,000 acres to public
These include mitigation and investment in our ownership in Oregon’s Cascade-Siskiyou National
land infrastructure, accurately accounting for the Monument.
carbon stored in U.S. forests; and the creation of
a robust, high-quality offset market for emissions Developing a new strategic plan for 2011
reductions from forests. through 2013.

In 2010 we’re making progress in the following key areas: Unveiling PFT’s “radiant” new visual identity,
Working with a strong coalition to advance including a new website and logo (see left).
federal legislation that will conserve our natural

$2,500,000
2009 Financial Review
Income: $2,018,739
Foundation Grants for Operations: $1,075,038
Individual and Business Donations: $289,348
$1,500,000
Fee for Services & Government Grants: $312,397
Investment & Interest Income: $512,097
Change in Valuation of Charitable Trust: ($182,963)
Other Income: $12,822
Expenses: $2,384,967
Programs: $1,904,987 (80%)
$500,000
General and
Administrative: $270,671 (11%)
Fundraising: $209,309 (9%)
$0

-$500,000
NOTE: Unaudited financials subject to auditor adjustments. The audited 2009 financial summary will be available on our website in the summer.
Complete financial statements and an independent auditor’s report will also be available upon request at that time.
 Thank You
We gratefully acknowledge the following individuals, foundations and businesses that helped make our work in 2009 possible.*

$100,000 and Up $50,000 – $99,999 $25,000 – $49,999

Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation Bella Vista Foundation Compton Foundation, Inc.
Dogwood Alliance
Kresge Foundation The Energy Foundation
James and Rebecca Morgan Family Foundation
Richard & Rhoda Goldman Fund James Irvine Foundation R. Howard Dobbs Foundation
Meyer Memorial Trust** Merck Family Fund Charlie & Darci Swindells
William Laney Thornton/Flora L.Thornton Foundation
Robertson Foundation S.D. Bechtel, Jr. Foundation Town Creek Foundation, Inc.
$10,000 – $24,999 $5,000 – $9,999
The Ayrshire Foundation Margaret A. Cargill Foundation Cherida Collins Smith & Peter Davis Pacific Gas and Electric
Allan & Marilyn Brown Marisla Foundation Glenn Smith Kongsgaard-Goldman Company
Harney & Sons Fine Teas National Park Trust Truman & Kristin Collins Foundation Walter & Jeanne Sedgwick
Heller Charitable & Nancy Nordhoff Community Foundation Linden Trust for Conservation Timothy & Billie Taylor/
Educational Fund Orchard Foundation Sonoma County’s Schulz Kirk Marckwald & Chris Desser Ecohaus
John & Elaine French Family Resources Legacy Fund Donor Advised Fund Gilman & Marge Ordway Andrea & Don Tuttle
Foundation Foundation Searle Whitney
Laird Norton Family Foundation Gregory & Daphne Tebbe
The Libra Foundation Karie & David Thomson *List of supporters represents donations PFT received
Dixon Long/Springcreek Weeden Foundation between January 1, 2009 and January 1, 2010. **Capital acquisition
Foundation
$1,000 – $4,999
Autodesk, Inc. John & Laura Fisher Edmund Hayes, Jr Nancy Kittle Timothy & Ulrike Pirrung
Benson Woodworking Company Fullerton Family Foundation Mrs. A. Carl Helmholz Perry & Tricia Lloyd Pisces Foundation
Constance Best Alison Geballe George Helmholz Lyme Timber Company Linda Sanford
Peter Boyer & Terry Gamble John Graham & Katherine Maurice & Janice Holloway Mendocino Redwood Company William & Claudia Stelle
The Campbell Group Munro/Knox Family Foundation Humboldt Redwood Company, Mark Miller Sullivan & Worcester LLP
Donald M. Campbell Green Mountain Energy LLC Stephen & Amanda Morris Cynthia Wayburn
The Collins Companies Company K&L Gates, LLP National Fish and Wildlife Laurie A. Wayburn
Evolution Markets Hancock Timber Resource Group Robert & Edie Kirkwood Foundation W.M. Beaty & Associates, Inc.

Hans & Marian Baldauf
Leslie & Doug Ballinger
Anthony & Carol Boutard
Joseph Bunker
Lew & Sheana Butler
Norman Christensen, on behalf
of Laurie Wayburn
Terry & Barbara Collins
$500 – $999
Henry & Vergilia Dakin Kass Green & Gene Forsburg Prairie Foundation Frank & Frances Reynolds Tsai
Sandy Dean & Cathy Ann Hatch Judson M. Parsons Steve Van Landingham &
Cockrum-Dean Carrie Hoyt Holiday Phelan-Johnson & Matthew O’Grady
Julie Dickerson Bill Hutton Christopher Johnson John C. Walker
Betsy & Jesse Fink Fund Land Trust Alliance Redtree Properties LP Edgar Wayburn, M.D.
Robert Flint, Jr Julie Lydick George & Anita Thompson Mariquita West, M.D. &
David Frenznick Christopher Mann Steve & Renee Thompson Celia Thompson-Taupin

$250 – $499
Stephen & Terry Beck Michael Gallagher & Nancy Hoopes & Martha Nelson Bob Kingman
Greg Blomstrom Ruth Shapiro Alison Pachynski James M. Peña Sandra Slater & Drew Maran
Patricia & Jim Branham Lorraine Gallard Arne Hultgren George Peyton, Jr. Gary & Carol Torre
Leslie Walker & Walter Burlock Dr. Keith Gilless Betsy Jewett James Rinehart & Carol Finkelstein Brooks Walker III
Julia Dakin & Jon Frech Charles Henderson Jacques & Leslie Leslie Martin & Joan Rosen Kirby Walker
Eight Arms Cellars Gary Hendrix Joshua Margolis Hal J. Salwasser William Wayburn
Dan Martin Sealaska Corporation Georgia Westdahl

$100 – $249
Michael & Susan Addison Green Diamond Resource Amy Meyer Bettina Ring Peter Stent
Sally Bingham Company Karla Nemeth Alicia Robbins Tania & Michael Stepanian
Amy Chesnut Chantz Joyce Jim & Lisa Nicol Dr. Jeff Romm Doug Wickizer
Ed & Kerry Cooper Gus Kaufman Jr. Jennifer Niedermeyer Leo Roy Patrice Winchester
Paul & Anne Ehrlich Samuel & Cindy Livermore Edward O’Brien & Carrie Santi Kirke Wolfe
Theodore & Patricia Eliot Sylvia McLaughlin Patricia Hickey Sahara Saude Elizabeth Wroblicka
James P. Finerty Osha Meserve Juliet Page Elizabeth Sedgwick Delphine Zeuli
George Gaines & Mary Moore Gabe Petlin

Marion Boggs III &
Clara Thomas Boggs
Peggy C. Campbell
Peter DeLucchi
Matt Fehrenbacher
$1 – $99
Thelma & Charles Gilmur Marianna Kaufman & Diana
Ronald & Derry Godar Aleman, in honor of Edgar
Marty & Joyce Griffin Wayburn and Marian Kaufman
Laura Hamilton Melvin Kreb
John & Mary Ellen Harte John Laughlin
Konrad J. Liegel
Dan Luoma Melanie J. Rowland
William & Janet McLennan Joan Rubenson, on behalf of
Elaine McMaster Simon Lucas Kagle
Patrick Noonan Paula Swedeen
Dan Olstein Laurie Tippin
Margit & Richard Roos-Collins Ed & Jeanette Ueber

In-Kind Donations
Ansel Adams Gallery/Yosemite Frey Vineyards Madroña Vineyards Phillips Bros. Mill San Francisco Symphony
National Park Harney & Sons Fine Teas Method Products Rikki Pirrung See’s Candies
Alexander Valley Vineyards John Bentley’s Restaurant MTR Western Ravenswood Winery SOAR Inflatables
California Snow Lagunitas Brewing Company Navarro Vineyards and Winery Saintsbury Winery Soluri Meserve, A Law Corporation
Dawn Patrol Images Tom Lupo & Laura Harvey Patagonia San Francisco Hat Company Sports Basement
Virgin America
Please visit www.pacificforest.org/partners.html for a listing of the Pacific Forest Trust’s clients.