Community Resilience Archives

Caring for the Land at Ya-Ka-Ama Indian Educational Center

September 12, 2024 / growing community with nature, right relations, slow restoration, stewardship, wildfirefuelreduction

Stewardship is a strengthening of the relationship between person and land. When we steward, we connect directly with the plants and animals, fungi and watersheds, but we also connect with history. This is because for tens of thousands of years people have lived on this land and cared for it, as we try to now.

In Sonoma County, these people are the Pomo, Coast Miwok, and Mishewal Wappo. They are represented through various federally recognized and unrecognized tribes. On August 31, we had the privilege of joining community stewards and Sonoma Earth School in an amazing day of stewardship at Ya-Ka-Ama Indian Education and Development, Inc. Click one the tags above to read the entire story.

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Community Partnership: Worker Leaders with North Bay Jobs with Justice Create Fuel Breaks at a LandPaths’ Preserve

June 18, 2024 / growing community with nature, stewardship

Community partnerships lie at the heart of LandPaths’ mission to foster a love of the land in Sonoma County. In March, we collaborated with worker leaders with

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Reflections: Slow Restoration Community Forestry Project for Women and Nonbinary Participants

November 20, 2023 / forestry, growing community with nature, riddell preserve, slow restoration, stewardship, wildfirefuelreduction

By Lara O’Herlihy, Stewardship Field Specialist This past October, fourteen strangers met for the first time at Riddell Preserve, LandPaths’ 400-acre protected open space preserve in the

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What’s It Like to Participate in a Prescribed Burn?

October 17, 2023 / growing community with nature, stewardship

by Miles Sarvis-Wilburn, Stewardship Field Specialist at LandPaths I arrived at LandPaths’ Ocean Song/Myers Preserve at 7:30am, the sun rising over a thick ocean of fog, and

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Covid Policies at LandPaths

October 21, 2022 / Covid-19

For 25 years LandPaths has actively worked for land and community in Sonoma County. Our commitment is further strengthened during the immense mental, physical, and financial challenges of the Covid-19 pandemic. Since March of 2020, when shelter-in-place

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A family smiles with the red barn at Bayer Farm in the background. In the foreground of the photo is a table full of tomatoes, squash, corn, and other vegetables harvested at Bayer Farm that day.

LandPaths receives $700,000 Outdoor Equity Grants Program grant from California State Parks.

June 16, 2022 / Bayer Farm, branching out conservation for everyone, grants, nature for all, outdoor equity, partners, young stewards

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 16, 2022 Contact: Leilani Clark, Communications Lead Email: [email protected] Cell: (707) 332-4736 LandPaths receives $700,000 Outdoor Equity Grants Program grant from California State

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The Community Rallied to Plant 4400 Redwood Saplings at Rancho Mark West in ONE Weekend

December 9, 2021 / growing community with nature, mark west creek, nature-based solutions, participate, rancho mark west, redwoods, stewardship

A warm and hearty thank you to everyone who helped plant redwood saplings at Rancho Mark West with LandPaths! Volunteers showed up for the land and community big time, joining together to plant

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LandPaths Partners with Sutter Family Medicine Residency

April 19, 2021 / Bayer Farm, Community Garden, Community Hub, community resilience, Garden Workday, Partnerships

On a warm Friday afternoon at LandPaths’ Bayer Farm, a half a dozen residents from Sutter Family Medicine Residency program are weeding garden beds in preparation for new plantings.

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Nature is a tonic. That’s not without challenges.

March 10, 2021 / growing community with nature, hidden nature, nature is essential, Sonoma County

Nature – in pullout vistas on the roadside, grand state and regional parks and smaller nature preserves, beaches and trails, even small neighborhood stands of oak – has been nothing

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Forest path surrounded by large redwood tress at Grove of Old Trees

20 Years with the Grove of Old Trees

December 21, 2020 / community care, grove of old trees, people powered park

It’s hard to believe, but in 1990s, these grand redwoods, tucked off an inconspicous lane in west Sonoma County, were slated to be cut down as part of a

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