Giving Tuesday Celebrates Nonprofits Across the World
Giving Tuesday is an international day of giving created in response to Black Friday, Cyber Monday and the other spending days that arrive annually in late November-early December. North State Giving Tuesday is a local initiative to increase philanthropy in Shasta, Siskiyou, and Tehama counties. The effort is brought to us by the Community Foundation North State. The 2020 #NorthStateGivingTuesday event will take place online from 6 a.m. PST to 8 p.m. PST. For those 14 hours, online donations will be accepted through www.northstategives.org/mountshastaecology
We believe our programs not only maintain the natural pristine condition of the surrounding natural landscapes, but enhance their condition and our experiences with them.
Through our Community Fire Resiliency Program, we act as hub between the community, fire and emergency service agencies, permiting agencies, and experts. As threats from catastrophic wildfires grow, our communities cry out for effective protection. Through collaboration, we activate and bring the community together to reduce fuels around their properties, create alternate escape routes, widen right-of-ways for emgency and evacuation vehicles, and harden homes. We promote responsible forest management including prescribed fire and support science-based practices for building healthy forests and safeguarding our public lands. We aim to make the community more fire-wise through workshops.
The H.O.M.E. (Honoring Our Mountain Environment) Program focuses on educating outdoor recreational enthusiasts, especially tourists, on the best practices of being a good steward of the environment, assisting the Forest Service in restoration & trail maintenance and Wilderness monitoring, and keeping an eye on the health of the local forests and watersheds! Through The Wilderness Solitude Monitoring Project we help Shasta Trinity National Forest ( STNF) in meeting national Wilderness Stewardship Performance targets. We visit moderate and high use trails within the two designated wildernesses (Shasta and Castle Crags) to collect data on various visitorship details. The information that we collect in Wilderness areas of the Shasta-Trinity National Forest will be critical in helping the Forest Service identify and prioritize areas that need attention, such as maintenance and limiting or increasing permitting. We’ve committed to helping mainttani the trail system within Panther Mewdow. The Trailhead Host project allows locals to volunteer, with proper training from the Forest Service, to help educate visitors in the National Forest on leave no trace ethics, proper land stewardship, information on fire safety, trail and campground information, information on the area, how to ‘recreate responsibly,’ including camping in designated dispersed areas.
Since 1997, with our Native American and environmental allies, we have been battling multinational geothermal corporations to assure that polluting industrial geothermal energy development with associated hydraulic fracturing, acid leaching and habitat fragmentation will not get a foothold on the sacred ground of the Medicine Lake Highlands. The Stanford Environmental Law Clinic has worked with us through administrative and court challenges, bringing a 2010 victory in the 9th Circuit Court that resulted in retraction of some of the lease extensions and called for a new environmental review. Our second court case currently disputes the remaining leases. Calpine Corporation is now proposing a fivefold increase in project size to 480 megawatts, with impacts that would be even more devastating to this remote pristine landscape and its source aquifer. The campaign reached a pinnacle on September 19th with the issuance of a favorable decision by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. The Ninth Circuit agreed with a 2017 U.S. District Court order that voided the 40-year extensions of 26 geothermal leases held by Calpine Corporation on thousands of acres in the Highlands-an order that BLM appealed to the higher court.