About Us
MUSICK PEOPLE
The original people of this land are the Nium, also called Mono. The people and the forest had co-adapted in abundance, diversity and stability over many thousands of years before the invaders killed and removed most of the people and took over the land. Today we are artists, scientists, musicians, educators, volunteers on the ground and supporters around the planet united in our love for the forest and committed to helping each other. We respect the land and all life by maintaining health and diversity in the forest and responsibly managing our local carbon resources.
MUSICK HISTORY
Our group has been stewarding 134 acres of rich forest land and year-round creek since 2003. Like nearly all its millions of surrounding acres, it was left in a disastrous state from 100 years of utterly upside-down forestry practices since the white people came. But the land was super-productive and the genetic diversity strong. Our forestry practices helped save our precious forest in the explosive Creek Fire of 2020 as well as saving our neighbors and the nearby community of Shaver Lake, CA.!
There is so much more to learn and teach each other. The history of our future forest and its future people is now just beginning. Want to go there?
FUTURE OF MUSICK
In 2019, our new nonprofit, Musick Creek Confluence Inc, secured the deed to this acreage. We research, experience, and teach while rebuilding the connection between people and nature: it is the connection which will heal and sustain all. We consider pursuit of these objectives a gift and also a global moral imperative.