Sempervirens Club
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Sempervirens Fund, originally established in 1900 as Sempervirens Club, is California's oldest land conservation. Dedicated to preserving the forest ecology of the majestic coast redwoods, Sequoia sempervirens, focusing all of their resources on just a single "bio-region": the Santa Cruz Mountains, immediately adjacent to the San Francisco Bay Area population centers. Most notably, the land that became Big Basin Redwoods State Park.
Their strategy was to buy up land and then transfer it to the parks departments to be integrated into existing parks and to ensure permanent public access. They have also worked to establish conservation easements and trail linkages between parks and coastal marine preserves. They have saved more than 24,000 acres (85 km²) in the creation and expansion of redwood parklands.
