Celebrating Over 35 Years of Restoration, Conservation, and Inspiration

Every Gift Adds to a Ripple of Change The Laguna de Santa Rosa Foundation advances the health and vitality of the Laguna de Santa Rosa watershed, and your support makes our mission possible. This watershed connects us. To water, to wildlife, to land, and to one another. The future of this interconnected system depends on all of us. As the Laguna’s steward, convener, and advocate, we bring people, knowledge, and resources together to make a lasting impact for the watershed.. Together, we have an extraordinary opportunity to build resilience in the Laguna watershed. With your help, the Laguna de Santa Rosa Foundation can continue to invest where the watershed needs us most. Your support today helps us raise the $300,000 in flexible funding we need to respond when opportunities arise, strengthen partnerships, empower volunteers, grow programs, and direct resources where they will have the greatest impact. The challenges facing our watershed are growing. Habitat loss and fragmentation continues, while climate change brings more extreme weather. As winter approaches, El Niño-driven heavy rainfall and flooding threaten the health and safety of our ecosystems and communities. A healthy Laguna is a natural solution to the impacts of climate change. Wetlands and floodplains filter and store water, support wildlife, and help reduce flooding. The Laguna de Santa Rosa wetlands complex can store up to 80,000 acre-feet of water, playing a vital role in protecting surrounding communities from flooding. Along the lower Russian River, in areas such as Guerneville and Monte Rio, the Laguna’s natural storage capacity can lower the height of a 100-year flood by as much as 14 feet. YOUR GIFT HELPS THE WHOLE WATERSHED THRIVE Your contribution helps us advance a watershed-wide approach to environmental conservation and stewardship, one that reaches beyond municipal and political boundaries, accounts for the health of the entire drainage basin and downstream, and considers the complex relationships between the land, water, people, and wildlife it includes. Your support helps turn individual efforts into an ecosystem of projects, connecting restoration, conservation, education, stewardship, and community action across the watershed. The Laguna de Santa Rosa is where children discover nature, migrating birds find food and refuge, seeds are planted, native plants are grown, habitats are revived and reconnected, and where people make art, grow food, gather, and connect. In 1989, our community came together to rewrite the future of the Laguna de Santa Rosa, refusing to accept a degraded, polluted, and overlooked Laguna. Their commitment set a current of change in motion. Today, with your support, we are writing a new chapter to carry that current forward. Flexible funding helps us implement the infrastructure we need to scale up our work. Your gift puts boots on the ground and seeds in the soil. Our communities depend on the Laguna de Santa Rosa watershed, and we have a responsibility to keep it healthy and thriving. Every gift adds to a ripple of change. Please make your unrestricted donation today. Thank you for being part of this watershed movement. With gratitude, Stacy Corless Executive Director