Mattole Restoration Council

For over 40 years, the community-based Mattole Restoration Council

has been serving a profoundly remote, rural community in the Mattole River watershed of Northern California. Together with your support, we now have a chance to create a community-envisioned Resilience, Education, and Research Center .

Your support will help provide the physical space for our community to come together and create our own path into a culturally, economically, and environmentally resilient future. Your contribution will go directly to the purchase of the future Mattole Resilience, Education, and Research Center. Your support will help create opportunities to diversify rural incomes in ways that honor the land, help us learn from this beloved watershed and one another, and provide local youth with positive opportunities. Our partnerships with local Mattole Valley schools and organizations, Cal Poly Humboldt, and King Range National Conservation Area groups are the foundation of this transformative rural endeavor. You, too, can be part of this inspiring movement and help create a place-based model for other deeply rural communities.

With support from the CA Coastal Conservancy, we are acquiring 83 acres for public access to open space, wildlife habitat conservation, and locally defined resilience programs – all to be planned through a Community Stakeholder Structure. Inspired by that news, a longtime community-minded landowner offered his adjacent restored historic home for sale to us as an already built base for the Mattole Resilience, Education, and Research Center! This opportunity to acquire an existing and beautiful permanent built space will save significant money and time. But we only have 8 months to make it happen.

If you can help us raise the needed funds right now, we can fast track the opening of the Mattole Resilience, Education, and Research Center. Your support in securing and opening the center will enable us to immediately scale up our programs, including:

• hosting field-based educational opportunities for schools, residents & visitors to the Lost Coast,

• hosting workforce development and job training events,

• deepening our understanding, appreciation, and conservation of the Mattole River watershed and the Lost Coast’s outstanding natural features and biodiversity.

• hosting locally acceptable collaborative field-based research opportunities.

Any amount you can contribute will go directly to the purchase of the future Mattole Resilience, Education, and Research Center! Thank you for supporting our community effort! If you can’t contribute at this time, a share with your friends and family would be so deeply appreciated.

For more information about our project – including our partners, prior community input, and to check out our Mattole Resilience, Education, and Research Center Feasibility Study – please visit this page : https://mattole.org/education-outreach/mattole-resilience-education-and-research-center/

Flora Brain is a staff member at the Mattole Restoration Council, a parent, an 18-year resident of the Mattole Valley, and a volunteer board member on another local nonprofit organization in the Mattole Valley.