Conservation Forever! Since 1976, Mendocino Land Trust has conserved over forty thousand acres of land in Mendocino County. From saving wildlife habitat and working lands, to combating climate change, to creating trails and coastal access, the organization has been at the forefront of coastal preservation, contributing incalculable benefits to the coast and its ecosystem in perpetuity.
For thirty years, the campus of Pacific Textile Arts, tucked into a quiet corner of Fort Bragg, has been a hotspot of soaring creativity, production, and learning, even as the space underwent constant reworking. The story of this fiber arts Mecca starts but doesn't end with two indefatigable proponents of the craft.
Scientists, divers, and fishermen are merging their knowledge and experience to help nature regain its balance after the tragic collapse of the coast's bull kelp forests and they are joined by a community that seeks to support and further their extraordinary work.
In the 1800s, the four Shafsky brothers made their way from Moldova to Fort Bragg and established a small business with a horse-drawn buggy full of wares to sell to loggers and fishermen who had settled here.
The 'Blue Economy' is an idea whose time has come, and now it's coming to the Mendocino Coast. A collective of government and non-government agencies and nonprofits have collaborated to launch a study with the goal of applying Blue Economy principles in Fort Bragg's Noyo Harbor. Innovations that promise to protect the resiliency of the ocean while revitalizing the economy of the iconic fishing village will inject new energy for a better future for local fisherfolk, the town, the county, the state, and—best of all—the entire planet.
