Sequoia ForestKeeper

Sequoia ForestKeeper Sequoia ForestKeeper® - The eyes, ears, and voice of the forest. Sequoia ForestKeeper® acts as the as the eyes, ears, and voice of the forest.

To protect and restore ecosystems of the southern Sierra Nevada – including Sequoia National Forest and the Giant Sequoia National Monument SFK seeks to improve land management practices, to promote land stewardship, to enforce existing laws and regulations, to implement public awareness programs, and to offer assistance to local land management agencies. Mission
The mission of Sequoia ForestKeepe

r® is to protect and restore the ecosystems of the southern Sierra Nevada – including both the Sequoia National Forest and the Giant Sequoia National Monument – through monitoring, enforcement, education, and litigation. Commenting Policy:
This page is intended to help you explore, enjoy, and protect the southern Sierra Nevada. We encourage civil discussion and hope you share your thoughts and ideas with us.

Please visit the link in our bio to submit a comment in favor of keeping Roadless Rule protections in place!Since the 19...
08/28/2026

Please visit the link in our bio to submit a comment in favor of keeping Roadless Rule protections in place!

Since the 1990s, the Roadless Rule has protected over 45 million acres of forests from commercial development. Now, the Trump administration is renewing attempts to repeal the popular and effective federal protection and open up our public lands to logging, mining, and other extractive industries. And we have only 30 days to comment on this disastrous plan.

In 2025, the public submitted over 600,000 comments in support of the Roadless Rule. Despite this, the Department of Agriculture is moving forward. On August 18th, they released a draft environmental impact statement, and a second public comment period was opened. Your comments need to be in by September 21!

08/17/2026

This is not Marty, it’s her kit, her little one. If you look carefully, when the kit turns around you can see bite marks on the scruff of its neck…

I always suspected Marty had a kit in the den. The remote camera caught her making many trips back to the den with food – a gopher or a chipmunk – gripped in her teeth for the young one. Even with the added weight, her pattering feet took her swiftly along the fallen logs, bringing her home within seconds.

This patch burned recently during a wildfire. But like most wildfires, the 2020 Creek Fire left a patchwork of live trees and great snags in its wake. Several live red firs surround the red fir snag where Marty dug her way down the core of the snag, to create her den in 2024.
Apparently it was time for a lesson last night. Marty gripped the kit at the back of its neck with her teeth and growled, dragging it away from the den. Most likely that was tough love – getting the kit ready for independence… Of course the kit came back, but will grow independent soon (maybe after more lessons).

Unfortunately, there’s a clear-cut a little over 300 feet up the hill from their home. That’s a super dangerous place for a small marten interested in finding its way in the world. Hopefully this youngster will not wander uphill into the clear-cut.

08/07/2026

Shoutout to Sequoia ForestKeeper team members Sue and Kim for this incredible clip of a cub finding a new toy: shed antlers!

This little family was seen in Black Mountain Grove, which includes part of the Black Mountain and Slate Mountain Inventoried Roadless Areas. These areas have been protected from invasive and destructive timber companies by the 30-year-old Roadless Rule. However, the Trump Administration is still working to rescind the rule, opening places like the Black and Slate Mountain IRAs to logging and road building.

Even though the Trump Administration has already started the process of rescinding the Roadless Rule, there is still time to save it, and YOU can help!

You can call (202) 224-3121 to reach the U.S. Capitol Switchboard Operator and ask to be connected to your representative in either the U.S. House or U.S. Senate. Tell them how much the Roadless Rule means to you and express your desire to see the rule kept in place. Together, we can protect our environment for generations to come!

In a recent article, SFK board member Maya Khosla wrote, “Some giant sequoias, larger around the base than most living r...
08/04/2026

In a recent article, SFK board member Maya Khosla wrote, “Some giant sequoias, larger around the base than most living rooms, and cloaked in charcoal, began producing new leaves at their tops. Even the most intensely burned forests continued to store more than 95 per cent of the carbon they had held before the fires. They were far from destroyed. Apparently, we just had to wait a bit, to have a little patience.”

Here, Maya touches on something anyone who has seen a sequoia grove after a fire knows, the forest knows how to heal itself! Timber companies have convinced us that burned forests need to be harvested and cleared to make way for new human-planted seedlings, which will, in turn, be harvested when it is most profitable. However, the forest and our communities are safer when nature is left to recover as it has evolved to recover over the past 350 million years.

The sequoia pictured here is growing in an area that has recently burned. Despite only being nine years old, the sequoia features pine cones! This tree proves to be a rule, not an exception - young trees can thrive and multiply in recently burned areas. We are doing ourselves a disservice by letting timber companies clear cut burned areas, and our communities and climate are worse off for it.

Happy Friday from our friends in the forest! Our great team got these photos while out in the field monitoring logging o...
07/24/2026

Happy Friday from our friends in the forest!

Our great team got these photos while out in the field monitoring logging operations in the Sierra Nevada mountains. Both the mountain bluebird and black-backed woodpecker are seen here utilizing snags as habitat. Snags are partially burned trees that are left behind following a wildfire.

When these trees are harvested for wood, this important habitat is lost! The yellow-bellied marmot pictured was also seen in a snag forest. It’s important to protect this habitat for critters of all shapes and sizes in the forest!

07/18/2026

This little creature is a Pacific marten, a small nocturnal mammal native to Northern California. Weighing no more than three or four pounds, martens make their homes in trees and prey on squirrels and voles.

Partially burned trees left standing after a wildfire, known as snags, provide excellent habitat for martens. When timber companies conduct salvage logging projects, this habitat is harvested for scraps.

Martens are a species that are already threatened due to climate change’s impact on their habitat. When the snowpack melts early, the marten is robbed of key hunting advantages in winter months.

Over-logging in California’s forests can result in dry, windy, and hot conditions on large swaths of land. This drastically increases wildfire risk and takes away habitat from martens.

YOU can help protect wilderness areas in Sierra National Forest! SFK is working to monitor, track, and educate Californi...
07/14/2026

YOU can help protect wilderness areas in Sierra National Forest!

SFK is working to monitor, track, and educate Californians about logging occurring immediately adjacent to Inventoried Roadless Areas (IRAs) that are necessary for the survival of endangered and vulnerable species such as fishers, martens, and black-backed woodpeckers.

While IRAs provide overflow benefits to surrounding, less protected patches of forests, logging operations produce negative overflow impacts. Hunting and ranging grounds are cut off, habitat is destroyed, and logging operations produce physical and noise pollution.

You can make your voice heard by contacting Sierra National Forest Supervisor Dean Gould and asking him to halt logging operations outside of the Kaiser Wilderness Roadless Area.

You can reach him by email at [email protected] or by phone at (559) 297-0706!

06/17/2026

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06/01/2026

This adorable bear cub is showing us the important role that fallen trees play in the ecosystems found in the Sierra Nevada.

When logging companies clear out these snags and the surrounding area, habitat is lost that is important to sustaining some of the most important species in the mountain range!

If you want to support life in the Sierras, consider following us! We will continue to study the impacts of logging and advocate for the proper and safe management of our forests, and hopefully bring you more awesome videos like this one!

There is still time to help defend nearly 60 million acres of forest by calling your representatives and urging them to ...
05/27/2026

There is still time to help defend nearly 60 million acres of forest by calling your representatives and urging them to support preserving the Roadless Rule!

You can reach the U.S. Capitol Switchboard Operator at (202) 224-3121 and be connected to your Congressperson, both in the House and Senate.

Together, we can protect our public lands!

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