“There’s a feeling of whiplash,” said Sara Barth, executive director of the Sempervirens Fund, a non-profit group based in Los Altos that preserves redwood forests.
“I got one message from a friend saying ‘what a great day for the environment.’ And I said, yeah, except at the national level,” she added. “It’s a combination of hope and pride that California is leading the way, combined with dread and despair that the federal government is going to be pulling in the opposite direction. But California needs to continue to provide leadership despite what might happen at the national level.”