A Work / Stay / Trade Project

Land Stewards

A month-long work, stay and trade at Mystic Forest, helping campers initiate as land stewards in a playful and collaborative way.

Trees as landholders: a framing from Michael Running Wolf. May this month wake the landholder in each of us.

Dr. Ruth Díaz · Jun 6 – Jul 6, 2026 · Klamath, CA

A month of restoring the mini-golf course and turning it, and the forest around it, into playful journeys the whole camp can keep growing. Pick a card to dive in.

The work

Mini-Golf Revival

Repainting the holes and turning each into a themed community journey.

See the plan →

🌲 Explore the Field Guide, 126 local species

For the kids & families

Quests & Resources

A redwood scavenger-hunt First Quest, the token system, and how to play.

Open quests → 🌲 Open the 126-species Field Guide

The wall

Helping Hands

A growing wall of handprints recording everyone who tends this land.

See the wall →

Time budget

11 of 56 hours logged

~1-2 hrs/day toward a 56-hour trade. Heavier on Fri-Tue.

Add a row in the timesheet Type your date and hours; the total updates itself.

Who built this

Dr. Ruth Díaz, Psy.D.

Social scientist, conflict-resiliency innovator & community designer. Psy.D. in Clinical Psychology (Pacific University).

Ruth on LinkedIn →

The land is the homeland of the Yurok & Tolowa peoples, the redwood coast’s first stewards. Mystic Forest’s lineage: BJ (1977) → Tom & Carolyn → Maya & Patrick (2023).

Living document · last updated June 6, 2026

Color & Find: printable coloring pages

Print these, color them in, then go find the real creature in the forest. Free for the kids who do not have a phone. Coloring pages courtesy of SuperColoring.com (free for educational use).

Banana Slug

Owl

Frog

Deer

Squirrel

Open the Mystic Forest Field Guide app (126 species, hunts, and pin a sighting, works offline).

Project documents (for review)

• Vision & Concept, the full stewardship-funnel plan (archetypes, journeys, tokens, fire circle, helping hands).
• Field Guide App, Build Plan, what the app is and becomes.
• Forest Color Palette, 50 colors linked to their species, for the mini-golf repaint.
• The live Field Guide app, 126 species, hunts, and pin a sighting (works offline).