Since 1993, the Pacific Forest Trust has been working to preserve, enhance and restore America’s vast and vital private forests – and safeguard their many public benefits – through education, innovation and collaboration.

We help Retain our forest infrastructure by raising awareness of the threats to America’s private forests and by directly conserving critical forestlands in partnership with landowners and communities in California, Oregon and Washington. We lead the country in the use of working forest conservation easements that ensure productive forests stay working for us all. And we help protect the integrity of important public forests by conserving neighboring private lands threatened by development.

We help Sustain forests by employing state-of-the-art forest stewardship practices on the thousands of acres we manage in the Pacific West. We also promote exemplary forest management to forest owners, policy-makers and the public so people across the U.S. will better understand that forestry is key to ecosystem conservation.

We help both landowners and the public Gain from private forests by developing and promoting new forest eco-services. These forest eco-services serve as the basis for a sustainable business model that yields financial returns from forest management practices that enhance forest carbon stores, watershed quality and fish and wildlife habitat. Our leadership in this area has led to the creation of a first-in-the-nation California-based program that allows forest landowners to register and sell carbon credits generated by forest conservation and sustainable management.

The Pacific Forest Trust is a nonprofit, 501(c)(3) organization.