Member Spotlights

On August 29, 2001, The San Francisco Chronicle reported: “Fire forces evacuation of Trinity County town. Hundreds flee “totally chaotic scene in historic Weaverville.” The report went on to say the blaze, called the Oregon Fire, had quickly…

I am Denise Levine, the newest member of the Communications Committee. Our family owns almost 200 acres of the Napa River Watershed in the Mayacamas Mountains, the ridge that runs between the Napa Valley and the Sonoma Valley. Heavily forested and…

This property first came into our family through my great-grandmother, Bessie (née Gillmore) Halliday, born in Manchester, just north of Point Arena, in 1882. She purchased the property in 1947. In 1977, Bessie passed away and the property passed to…

This year we are doing something a little different. Our Forest Landowners of California Conference in Tuolumne April 28-29 will be a collaboration with the California Tree Farm System. And you will have a chance to meet Lois Kaufman, a member of…

“Grandad would come home from work in a three-piece suit. I can remember him standing and talking to someone, and he would reach in his pocket and pull out a pair of pruners and start pruning whatever shrub, plant or tree was around him needing…

Tree Farms are either inherited or purchased. We purchased our 80-acreTree Farm in 1977. It is located at 3,000 feet near Groveland, Tuolumne County, just west of the West entrance to Yosemite National Park. The area is designated on topography maps…

I visited Ted, Marie and Janet Wyman on a breezy, end of September Sunday afternoon in Tehachapi, California. While Marie held down the fort, Ted and Janet took me on an abbreviated tour of their family’s more than 7,000 acre ranch in the Tehachapi…

I retired from Chevron in 2015 after nearly 36 years of continuous employment. I worked at the Refinery in Richmond, CA as a boilermaker craftsman and my last ten years as a certified weld inspector. I grew up in El Sobrante and later purchased a…