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Guests from technology, finance, wildfire and the arts will spend three days on the Mendocino Coast seeing how a logged redwood forest is being made ready for fire
FORT BRAGG, Calif. — Nov. 2, 2026 — This November, Redwood Forest Foundation (RFF) will host the Redwood Wildfire Resilience Tour, a one-time, three-day event that brings a small group of invited guests from San Francisco into the Usal Redwood Forest, the 50,000 acres on California’s Lost Coast that the nonprofit owns and cares for.
Usal was logged for more than a century. Much of it grew back as dense tanoak that crowds out young redwoods and helps fire spread. The tour is a chance to see, on the ground, what it takes to bring a forest like that back and make it strong enough to face the fires ahead.
Guests will walk among old-growth redwoods that were never cut, to see what the forest is growing back into. In Usal they will spend a full day with RFF’s foresters and crews, walking ground that has been thinned of overgrown tanoak, and visiting sites where cultural and prescribed burns have been used to clear fuel before a wildfire can.
Boston Dynamics will give a live demonstration of Spot, its four-legged robot, in the forest, a look at how new tools may help watch over a forest this size. Before they leave, every guest will plant a redwood of their own.
The group includes investors, engineers, people who work on wildfire and climate risk, and artists. Evenings will be spent on the coast, over dinner and conversation about what the day showed them.
“Every guest plants a future giant that can live 2,000 years into the future.”— Alex Marcoulides, Redwood Forest Foundation
RFF will share stories and photographs from the tour after the guests return home.
About Redwood Forest Foundation
Redwood Forest Foundation is a nonprofit based in Fort Bragg, California. It owns and cares for the Usal Redwood Forest, 50,000 acres on California’s Lost Coast, through conservation, restoration, science and smart forest technology. Learn more at redwoodforests.org.
Media contact
Richard Gregory
Redwood Forest Foundation
richard@redwoodforests.org
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