When the nonprofit Western Ancient Forest Campaign (WAFC) sent Brian Vincent to California to set up a new office, he had a lot of terrain to choose from. He settled on Nevada City, Calif., one evening during a Watershed Council meeting, impressed by the sight of local Sierra Club and Earth First! members coming together with 40 other people. Now sharing an office with the South Yuba River Citizens’ League, a nonprofit committed to protecting local rivers, Vincent is working on protecting ancient forests and endangered species, among other issues. Contact him at the Western Ancient Forest Campaign, 240 Commercial St., Suite E, Nevada City, CA 95959 (530/265-3506), e-mail: wafcca@nccn.net.

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New in the watershed

by Staff, High Country News
May 11, 1998

<h1>New in the watershed</h1> <p class="byline">by Staff, High Country News <br />May 11, 1998</p> <p>When the nonprofit Western Ancient Forest Campaign<br /> (WAFC) sent Brian Vincent to California to set up a new office, he<br /> had a lot of terrain to choose from. He settled on Nevada City,<br /> Calif., one evening during a Watershed Council meeting, impressed<br /> by the sight of local Sierra Club and Earth First! members coming<br /> together with 40 other people. Now sharing an office with the South<br /> Yuba River Citizens’ League, a nonprofit committed to protecting<br /> local rivers, Vincent is working on protecting ancient forests and<br /> endangered species, among other issues. Contact him at the Western<br /> Ancient Forest Campaign, 240 Commercial St., Suite E, Nevada City,<br /> CA 95959 (530/265-3506), e-mail:<br /> wafcca@nccn.net.</p> <div class="wp-block-group hcn-print-edition-box"> <p>This article appeared in the <a href="/?p=187381">print edition of the magazine</a> with the headline <span class="hcn-magtitle">New in the watershed</span>.</p> </p></div> <p>This &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/issue-130/new-in-the-watershed/&quot;&gt;article&lt;/a&gt; first appeared on &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://country-survey-collabs.info Country News&lt;/a&gt; and is republished here under a &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/&quot;&gt;Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;img src=&quot;https://i0.wp.com/www.hcn.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/cropped-HCN_Logo-Monogram_White_Sq-2.png?resize=150%2C150&amp;amp;quality=100&amp;amp;ssl=1&quot; style=&quot;width:1em;height:1em;margin-left:10px;&quot;&gt;&lt;img id=&quot;republication-tracker-tool-source&quot; src=&quot;https://country-survey-collabs.info/?republication-pixel=true&amp;post=103214&amp;amp;ga4=G-0NS3WVPPTN&quot; style=&quot;width:1px;height:1px;&quot;&gt;&lt;script&gt; PARSELY = { autotrack: false, onload: function() { PARSELY.beacon.trackPageView({ url: &quot;https://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/issue-130/new-in-the-watershed/&quot;, urlref: window.location.href }); } } &lt;/script&gt; &lt;script id=&quot;parsely-cfg&quot; src=&quot;//cdn.parsely.com/keys/hcn.org/p.js&quot;&gt;&lt;/script&gt;</p> Copy to Clipboard

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