It is owned by about 90 shareholders nationwide, many of whom are founder James P. Founded in 1904 and based in Nevada City, the company has recently sold its land, said Aric Starck, chairman of the board. The latest deal, backed by an ongoing private funding campaign, took place due to the end of CaliforniaвЂ™s other long-standing institution, the Soper Wheeler lumber company. (Photo: Max Whittaker, Save the Redwood League) A herd of Roosevelt Elks roams the 3,181-acre Lost Coast Redwood site near Rockport, California on December 2, 2021. Over the past century, it has protected more than 200,000 acres of Redwood forest and is important in establishing or expanding 66 state, regional and national parks, including Humboldt Redwood, Caravelas Big Tree, Big Basin, and Avenue of the Giants. The crew is currently building a trail there.ДЇounded in 1918, when Redwood was logged 2,000 years ago for shingles, sleepers, and vineyard stakes, the Save the Redwoods League is one of the stateвЂ™s most venerable conservation groups. The beach was sent to the California State Parks Department and the inland area to the Land Management Department. Former President Obama designated it as a national monument in 2017.

The property was proposed to golf courses, gated subdivisions, and even nuclear power plants in the late 1960s. Sam Hodder, President and Chief Executive Officer of Save the Redwoods League, said: Nature makes the rules, and the wild has incredible power and beauty. Save the Redwoods League will pay $ 36.9 million to Soper Company, the parent company of the Soper Wheeler lumber company that has owned it since 1963, on 3,181 acres of vast land called the вЂњLost Coast RedwoodsвЂќ property. An undeveloped and isolated part of CaliforniaвЂ™s famous coastline. Located on the southern tip of the вЂњLost CoastвЂќ between Rockport and Ferndale, in 1984 state highway engineers abandoned plans to extend Highway 1 through the area, turning the road inland and farthest from the oceanfront.

The oceanfront panorama, home to Roosevelt elks, coho salmon, mountain lions and other wildlife, has remained largely unchanged since the Spanish galleons sailed south from Cape Mendocino in the 1600s. In Northern CaliforniaвЂ™s largest coastal land conservation agreement for over 20 years, San FranciscoвЂ™s Environmental Group plans to sign a contract to purchase five miles of steep sea-facing land on the Mendocino coast and restore its Redwood forest.

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