Excerpts from a note by 2025 scholarship recipient Julian Jackson: “… I am currently a Communications … student at College of the Redwoods with prospects of transferring to a four year university next year to get a BA in journalism, with a focus on investigative reporting.  I am also working as a stronger and intern for the KMUD Community Radio newsroom… I have always been interested in reporting the full story … I helped found and later ran my high school’s environmental clu

Excerpts from Rabbi Naomi Steinberg’s remembrance of Cindy Allsbrooks, David “Gypsy” Chain’s mother, who passed away in August, 2023:   Twenty-five years ago I had the honor of speaking at Nathan’s funeral. I tried to describe what his life and his death meant to our community of forest activists in California. Now I’ll try to tell you what Cindy meant to us. On her very first visit, in the midst of the intense grief over the recent loss of her child, she opened her heart to

On March 10, 2019, legendary singer-songwriter and activist Darryl Cherney performed a benefit concert for the scholarship fund at the...

by Jerry Martien Here’s what happened in the woods today. Let me show you what you get when you trespass in the redwoods. Life spilled on...

By Joan Dunning, Arcata As published in the Eureka Times-Standard, Sept. 4, 2018 After David died, his mother, Cindy Allsbrooks, asked me...