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Bald cypress trees standing in swamp water. This is an illustration of the wetland habitat the center studies. It does not show the center, its buildings or its staff. Environment National Great Rivers Research and Education Center East Alton, Illinois The National Great Rivers Research and Education Center sits at One Confluence Way in East Alton, Illinois, and is affiliated with the… Learn more A wide view of cypress swamp bottomland. This is an illustration of the country the company filmed in. It does not show the company, its crew or its equipment. Environment Route 3 Films St. Louis, Missouri Route 3 Films is a video production company in St. Louis. It filmed The Call of the Swamp with the National Great… Learn more A newly rebuilt stream channel at Hancock Springs, with logs laid along fresh banks and bare soil either side. Nobody is in the picture. It illustrates the kind of habitat work described on this page and does not show this organization or its staff. Environment Trout Unlimited United States, with the coho work on the north coast of California. Trout Unlimited was started by anglers and has been a fishing conservation group since 1959. Good News Network named the group in… Learn more Two spawning coho salmon, deep red, in clear shallow water over gravel, seen from below the surface. Nobody is in the picture. It illustrates the fish counted in a spawning survey and does not show this department or its staff. Environment California Department of Fish and Wildlife California. This is California's state wildlife agency. Its About page names programs from Free Fishing Days to the California Natural Diversity Database, and… Learn more Redwood forest running down to a rugged coastline at sunset in Yurok ancestral territory, northern California. Photograph by Michelle Stern, USGS California Water Science Center, public domain. Environment Yurok Tribe Klamath Office, 190 Klamath Blvd, Klamath, California, with further offices in Eureka and Weitchpec The Yurok Tribe states that it is the largest Tribe in California, with more than 5,000 enrolled members and more than 200… Learn more A Yurok firelighter holding a drip torch, lighting a low cultural burn through forest undergrowth on Yurok land in autumn 2023. Photo by Matt Mais, Public Relations Director, Yurok Tribe. Permission granted to USGS for usage. Public domain. Environment Cultural Fire Management Council Yurok Reservation, northern California The Cultural Fire Management Council is a community based non-profit organization working on fire use and cultural resource management. Its work is… Learn more A rocky Mendocino coastline seen from a bluff top covered in pink wildflowers, with surf breaking on the rocks below. Environment Mendocino Land Trust 435 N. Main Street, Suite B, Fort Bragg, California Mendocino Land Trust works on the Mendocino coast of northern California, combining land conservation with getting people onto that land. Its four… Learn more Old-growth redwoods standing on a ridgeline above younger second-growth forest on a hillside that was clear-cut in the 1960s. Photograph by Redwood National and State Parks, National Park Service, Public Domain Mark 1.0. Environment Pacific Forest Trust 1001-A O'Reilly Avenue, San Francisco, California Pacific Forest Trust works with private forest owners, not around them, and builds economic reasons for those owners to keep their land… Learn more Tall coast redwoods in Henry Cowell Redwoods State Park in the Santa Cruz Mountains, the range Sempervirens Fund works to protect. Photo by Richard James on Unsplash, free to use under the Unsplash Licence. Environment Sempervirens Fund Los Altos, California Sempervirens Fund works on a single range of forest, the coast redwoods of the Santa Cruz Mountains. It describes itself as California’s… Learn more Old-growth coast redwoods beside a park road in Williams Grove, Humboldt Redwoods State Park, California. Environment Save the Redwoods League 220 Montgomery St, Suite 350, San Francisco, California Save the Redwoods League works across the whole California redwood range, on both coast redwood and giant sequoia forests. Its own description… Learn more
A bald cypress swamp covered in duckweed. This is an illustration of the habitat she studies. It is not a photograph of Jessica Mohlman and shows no people. Environment Jessica Mohlman Wildlife ecologist Mohlman works with an amphibian almost nobody sees. The bird-voiced treefrog is a small frog that whistles like a bird, and she… Learn more Bald cypress knees rising out of green swamp water. This is an illustration of the forested wetland he studies. It is not a photograph of John Crawford and shows no people. Environment John Crawford Principal Scientist and Terrestrial Wildlife Ecologist, National Great Rivers Research and Education Center Crawford's research looks at what habitat alteration and a changing climate do to amphibian populations, with attention to forested wetlands that dry… Learn more An old metal culvert sitting above the water at the end of a small stream, hemmed in by fallen logs and grass. Nobody is in the picture. It illustrates the kind of barrier this person's work removes and is not a picture of her or of her project. Environment Anna Halligan Director, North Coast Coho Project, Trout Unlimited NOAA Fisheries named Halligan in its feature of March 26, 2026 on the record coho season. In the same story it reports… Learn more A rocky stream running between boulders through autumn trees, with a hillside behind. Nobody is in the picture. It illustrates the kind of water a spawning survey covers and is not a picture of this person or of any stream she works on. Environment Sarah Gallagher Senior Environmental Scientist, California Department of Fish and Wildlife NOAA Fisheries named Gallagher in its feature of March 26, 2026 on the 30,000 adult coho that returned to Mendocino Coast rivers.… Learn more A tracked excavator and a bulldozer removing the fill of an old logging road on a forested hillside in the Greater Mill Creek watershed, Redwood National and State Parks. Environment Leonel Arguello Deputy Superintendent, Redwood National and State Parks Leonel Arguello has worked at Redwood National and State Parks since 1988 and oversees Redwoods Rising and the Redwood Creek estuary restoration… Learn more A young giant sequoia seedling growing among fallen cones, needles and bark on the forest floor. Environment Zane Moore Doctorate in plant biology, UC Davis, now teaching science Zane Moore holds a doctorate in plant biology from UC Davis for work on redwood longevity, and UC Davis says he has… Learn more Sarah Bird Environment Sarah Bird Scholar-Artist Fellow, Graduate Center for the Study of Culture, Justus Liebig University Sarah Bird is an interdisciplinary artist who works with trees as material and method, and a Scholar-Artist Fellow at Justus Liebig University… Learn more A wide view of rocky pinnacles and wooded ridges in the Chiricahua Mountains of southern Arizona. Environment Emily Burns Program Director, Northern Sky Islands, Sky Island Alliance Emily Burns is program director for the northern Sky Islands at Sky Island Alliance, and the former science director at Save the… Learn more A polished cross-section of a redwood trunk with small labels pinned to individual growth rings marking historical dates. Environment Allyson Carroll Research Associate, Department of Forestry, Fire and Rangeland Management, Cal Poly Humboldt Allyson Carroll is a dendrochronologist at Cal Poly Humboldt who reads redwood tree rings to date tree age, growth, fires and earthquakes. Learn more Straight, closely spaced second-growth coast redwoods with sunlight coming through the canopy. Environment Laurie A. Wayburn Co-founder and President, Pacific Forest Trust Laurie A. Wayburn co-founded Pacific Forest Trust and is its president, working to shift forest economics away from timber products and toward… Learn more The mouth of the Klamath River meeting the Pacific, seen from a grassy headland above the beach. Environment Rosie Clayburn Katri Yurok Tribal Heritage Preservation Officer, and Director of the Yurok Cultural Resources Department Rosie Clayburn Katri is the Yurok Tribal Heritage Preservation Officer and director of the Yurok Cultural Resources Department, credited in Giants Rising… Learn more The Klamath River running past a wide gravel bar below a steep forested hillside. Environment Barry McCovey Jr. Director, Yurok Tribal Fisheries Department Barry McCovey Jr. is a biologist and fisherman who directs the Yurok Tribal Fisheries Department, the department doing the science behind the… Learn more Margo Robbins Environment Margo Robbins Executive Director, Cultural Fire Management Council Margo Robbins is executive director of the Cultural Fire Management Council, which works to make Yurok cultural burning practical again on Yurok… Learn more Paul Piff Environment Paul Piff Associate Professor of Psychology, University of California, Irvine Paul Piff is a social psychologist at UC Irvine whose research covers economic inequality, morality and social connection, and the psychological effects… Learn more Tall coast redwood trunks with low sun and mist between them and ferns across the forest floor. Environment Todd Dawson Professor, Departments of Integrative Biology and of Environmental Science, Policy and Management, UC Berkeley Todd Dawson is a UC Berkeley professor who studies the interface between plants and their environments, and who directs the university’s Center… Learn more Marie E. Antoine Environment Marie E. Antoine Research Associate, Department of Forestry, Fire and Rangeland Management, Cal Poly Humboldt Marie E. Antoine is a research associate in forestry at Cal Poly Humboldt who studies the biology of the redwood canopy and… Learn more Looking up the trunk of a huge coast redwood into its crown, with green light and smaller trees around it. Environment Stephen C. Sillett Professor and Kenneth L. Fisher Chair in Redwood Forest Ecology, Cal Poly Humboldt Stephen C. Sillett is a professor at Cal Poly Humboldt who holds the Kenneth L. Fisher Chair in Redwood Forest Ecology and… Learn more Lisa Landers Environment Lisa Landers Producer and director Lisa Landers is the producer and director of Giants Rising, with more than two decades of work for television networks and museums… Learn more Robin Wall Kimmerer smiling, wearing a patterned plum top and long shell earrings, in front of a painted landscape backdrop. Environment Robin Wall Kimmerer Botanist, SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor, author of Braiding Sweetgrass Robin Wall Kimmerer is a botanist and an enrolled member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation. She is a SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor… Learn more Robin Danehav, documentary filmmaker Environment Robin Danehav Documentary filmmaker Danehav spent years running production companies and filming for more than 600 corporate clients. In 2022 he took a big risk and… Learn more Glacier blanket crew rolling out wool on the ice, from the project Oskar Kihlborg leads Environment Oskar Kihlborg Adventurer, first Swede to summit Everest Kihlborg reached the top of Everest in 1990 with Mikael Reuterswärd, the first Swedes to do it. Guiding groups on Kilimanjaro years… Learn more