Mendocino County
Environmental Groups

The groups in the list below are gradually being hypertexted and linked to contact information as database information is updated. Groups without current contact information are listed in bold type and are not linked to additional information; they will eventually be hypertexted.

Adopt A Watershed

Focus: watersheds, environmental education

1000 acre environmental education preserve, 40 acre farm; science & ecology programs for local schools, summer day camp, training center, hostel, after school programs; in need of grant money for maintenance and operations.

Albion River Watershed Protection Assn. (ARWPA)

Focus: watershed & ecosystems, forestry lawsuits, Albion Wtshd.

Dedicated to preservation, protection, restoration of Albion and Salmon Creek watersheds through litigation; beginning watershed analysis and restoration work; non-profit status.

Anderson Valley Recycling Center

Association of Mendocino Recyclers

Focus: recycling, landfills, source reduction, waste stream

Non-profit status, issued Gainer report on re-use of waste products as industrial feed stock.

Audubon Society, Mendocino Coast

Focus: birds

Habitat protection for birds, wildlife; organizes outings, bird walks

Audubon Society, Peregrine Chapter

Focus: birds, wildlife and their habitat

Education outreach via Audubon Adventures for primary students; organizes monthly field trips, meetings.

Big River Associates

Big River Watershed Alliance

Focus: preservation of Big River watershed

Education and litigation

Bioengineering Associates

Burkhardt Turnbines

Focus: alternative energy

Solar and micro-hydro installation; electrical vehicle conversion.

California Native Plant Society, San Hedrin Chapter

Focus: native plants /vegetation, endangered plants

Preservation, education of native flora, plant communities; author of "Riparian Vegetation of Ukiah Valley"; working on botanical key of Mendocino County

California Ocean Sanctuary Federation

Focus: Ocean Sanctuary, pollution; plankton; constituent organizing

Organizes around sewage treatment disposal, mining issues; has slide show; organizes a "story" contest for children.

Center for Rural Design

Citizens Action for Recycling & Trash (CART)

Focus: hazards from dumps, business recycling

Goal is to promote reform of the handling of trash and toxic substances

Citizens Against the Mendocino "Resort"

Citizens for a Healthy Ukiah

Focus: Masonite emissions; toxics in Ukiah valley

A grass roots organ., public's right-to-know surrounding toxic emissions from hardwood plant; 2 lawsuits in progress against EPA and Masonite

Citizens for Adequate Review (CFAR)

Focus: Ukiah air issues; land use planning

A grass roots group organizing around air-quality issues of the Ukiah Valley; currently focusing on Louisiana-Pacific's fiber board plant and alternative transportation

Coast Action Group

Focus: Mendocino County, CIty of Point Arena planning; Garcia River issues

Riverine and coho salmon concerns on the Garcia River in southern Mendocino County; water quality lawsuit in progress

Comptche Land Conservancy

Focus: Land Trust in Comptche Area

Grass roots organ. organized around land protection, conservation; responds to Timber Harvest Plans; info dissemination and education; working with Mendo. Land Trust Alliance

Conservation Alliance

Focus: forestry, acquisition, preservation

Nonprofit, outdoors business giving back to outdoors; funds projects of member organizations only (please no solicitations); Headwaters, Sinkyone funding; 275 million acres of land protected, 29 proposals funded.

Covelo Indian Community

Critter Care Wildlife Rescue Team

Focus: wildlife rescue & rehabilitation

See above; state licensed; works Lake & Mendocino Counties only

Ecotopia Earth First!

Focus: forests, toxics, movement organizing

Nonviolent, civil disobedience; labor organizing, ecofeminism. revolutionary ecology; direct action locally against industrial forestry practices; Headwaters organizing and action

Eel River Watershed Protection & Restoration Assoc.

Focus: Upper Eel River watershed

Organizes around Eel River, above Lake Pillsbury to Foster Mountain; fisheries and wildlife concerns.

Eileen Hawthorne Fund, The

Forest Advisory Committee

Focus: Forest Biology, Sustained Maximum Production, Economics

Nonexistent committee formed by Mendo. Co. Board of Sups operating on mandate to stop inventory depletion of forest resources and to maximize forest productivity; contact is still available for inquiries

Friends of Enchanted Meadow

Friends of Ft. Bragg

Friends of Ranchero Creek

Friends of Russian River

Friends of Schooner Gulch

Focus: Schooner Gulch, tributary of Garcia River; watersheds

Issue-specific, non-profit group allied with Friends of the Garcia; 2 current lawsuits against Louisiana-Pacific Corp.

Friends of the Garcia

Focus: preservation, watersheds

Watershed advocacy group for Garcia River; conducts public awareness, litigation, aerial photo mapping, stream temperature and flow monitoring; Timber Harvest Plans and gravel mining concerns.

Friends of the Gualala

Friends of the Navarro

Focus: watersheds

Water appropriations, riparian habitat (Riparian Protection Ordinance), litigation against State Water Resources Control Board, agency watchdog.

Friends of the Ten Mile

Greenwood Watershed Association

InterTribal Sinkyone Wilderness Council

Focus: Sinkyone InterTribal Wilderness

Consortium of California indian tribes in process of establishing first American Intertribal Wilderness Park in Northwest corner of Mendo. County; 3900 acre park-preservation, restoration, learning center, land stewarship

Jughandle Creek Farm and Nature Center

Focus: watersheds, env. education

Science and ecology outdoor education center, works with local schools; 1000 acre preserve, farm, training center, summer day camp, after school program, nature trails; in need of grant money

Laytonville Community Recycling Center

Laytonville Dumpbusters

MAP RAP

Matole Headwaters Task Force, The

Mattole Restoration Council

Focus: Restoration of Salmon Habitat on Mattole River

Watershed restoration, on-ground projects, educatino, research, publications.

MEC Native American Issues Coord.

Mendo-Lake Group, Sierra Club

Mendocino Area Parks Association

Mendocino Coast Botanical Gardens

Mendocino Coast Environmental Center

Focus: oceans, forestry, etc.

Nonprofit information clearinghousel protection of regional environmental quality; law and policy; oil drilling, Headwaters Forest, Endangered Species Act; retail sales

Mendocino Coast Humane Society

Mendocino Country Environmentalist

Mendocino District State Parks

Mendocino Environmental Center

Mendocino Environmental Research Lab

Mendocino Land Trust

Mendocino Railway Society & WEC

Mendocino Woodlands, The

Mill Creek Watch

Mote Creek Managing Agency

New Growth Forestry

Focus: Forest Practice Act, Wood Quality, Stream Restoration

Stream restoration, trail building, sustainable forestry.

North Coast Energy

North Coast Interpretive Association

Ocean Protection Coalition

Ocean Sanctuary Coordinating Committee

Ocean Sanctuary Federation

Olde Mill Farm School of Country Living

Pacific Environmental Education Center

Pacific Forest Trust

Pacific Gianet Watershed Service

Pacific Land Trust

PCFFA

People Investigating Toxic Sites (PITS)

Pinoleville Indian Community

Real Goods Trading Company

Real Wood Co-op

Real Wood Co-op

Redwood Coast Environmental Law Center

Redwood Coast Land Conservancy

Redwood Coast Watershed Alliance

Redwood Coast Watersheds Alliance (RCWA) Forest Practice Com.c

Road 409 Community Group

Russian River Unlimited

Russian River Watershed Protection Committee

Russian/Eel Watershed

Salmon Unlimited

Sanctuary Forest

SEER

Sherwood Road Watershed Association (SherPA)

Sierra Club, Coastal Conservation Committee

Sierra Club, Mendo-Lake Group

Ten Mile Watershed Association

WEC Garbage Committee

Willits Environmental Center (WEC)

Willits Wildlife Rehabilitation Team