Sempervirens Fund

Do you enjoy ancient redwood trees? Do you like to hike in the woods? Do you like to drink fresh clean water? I could go on and on, but you get the idea. These people are the real deal. I’ve been giving to this fund for years and I always know my money is being well spent. Great job guys, keep up the good work.

In their words, since there are no words here yet writ about them:
Sempervirens Fund is California’s oldest land trust and the only organization exclusively devoted to permanently protecting the coast redwood forests of the Santa Cruz Mountains. Since our founding in 1900, we have:
Protected over 34,000 acres of redwood forests;
Planted more than 93,000 trees;
Built and maintained more than 60 miles of hiking trails.
Thank you very much Sempervirens for these excellent auto-​biographical words.
Now, if I may, a few of my own.
Dude.
You like trees? You like mushrooms and banana slugs and moss soft like a baby? You like an over-​story that seems to still the damp ocean breeze, owls and motes dancing, quiet when it’s still all you can hear is your own heartbeat? Slowing.
Manzanita, madrone, redwoods, sage, poppy, lanatun, snapdragon, deer, coyote, bobcat. Snakeses sometimes.
You like access to this just over an hour from your front door? You’re one lucky bunny rabbit then, my friend, because thanks to organizations like Sempervirens and their project partners this is exactly what you have.
Count your blessings, ami.