The current RFD campaign is actively defending an area located at the southern end of Yurok ancestral territory overlooking the Pacific coast. This redwood rainforest is home to the Tsurai people of the Yurok Tribe who have lived on this land since time immemorial. The forest currently being defended is located a few miles north of their original village location, now being called Trinidad. This second and third growth redwood coastal rainforest is located in proximity to Strawberry Rock, a massive on-shore sea stack that rises above the surrounding redwoods. The Yurok have stewarded this land for countless generations and continue to reclaim their ancestral tribal territory after almost 250 years of disruption by European/American settlers.

In 1775, Spanish explorers first invaded the area and erected a wooden cross on Tsurewa (named Trinidad Head by the colonizers) proclaimed the land as a new acquisition for the King of Spain and named the area Trinidad. Following this, the bay was used as a port for fur traders and Chinese expeditions. In 1849, what is now called Humboldt Bay (approximately 20 miles south of Tsurewa), was charted by European merchants. The bay was exploited to support the gold rush and caused the drastic increase of colonizers to settle in the area. New settlements were constructed around the bay and in the Tsurewa area. Colonizers stole the land surrounding the bay from the indigenous Wiyot people and, in 1856, incorporated the city of Eureka. Seven sawmills were constructed and produced two million board feet of lumber every month.

In the 1800s, the logging of redwood rainforests became more widespread — all along the coast giant redwoods were cut and sold for profit. As technology advanced, the ability to harvest massive redwoods quickened while Indigenous people and conservationists fought to protect them. The first logging were clearcuts (when all or most trees in an area are cut) and occurred closest to the bays and rivers which, with the winter rains, would wash the logs downstream to the sawmills. In the 1890s, steam-donkey skidding machines pulled logs several thousand feet or more where they were loaded onto railroad lines. This allowed more access to more remote forest. Logging camps followed the rail lines and, along with them, violence and continued attempts at the genocide of Indigenous people.

After World War II, logging roads, trucks and tractors replaced rail lines and steam-donkey skidders. Combined with an economic boom and a high demand for timber from settler communities, logging intensified and further decimated wildlife populations and canopy connectivity. By the late 1960s, most of the old-growth forests in so-called Northern California had been clearcut at least once. Most second growth forest was clearcut harvested a second time. And a third.

In 1948, Simpson Logging, based out of Washington state, expanded and purchased forests in the Northern California area. Simpson Logging (now known as Green Diamond Resource Company) had clearcut the forests of the Lower Elwha Klallam, Jamestown S'Klallam, Port Gamble S'Klallam, Skokomish, Quinault, Hoh, Quileute, and Makah people since the 1890s. From their Northern California timberlands, they harvested redwood trees for lumber and pulp for paper products. Today, GDRC owns 373,724 acres of land in so-called Del Norte and Humboldt Counties, the majority of which is located within 20 miles of the sensitive Pacific coastline.

In 2008, amidst outcry from the Indigenous community and general public, GDRC destroyed Sister Rock (another on-shore sea stack that is in proximity to Strawberry Rock) and used the resulting gravel for logging road construction.

In 2010, Green Diamond Resource Company received approval from CalFire for a Timber Harvest Plan (THP) in the Strawberry Rock area. In response, Redwood Forest Defense raised platforms in trees and lived in them. Logging operations were successfully stopped by forest defense tactics and the Timber Harvest Plan expired in 2018. After the initial treesits were raised, negotiations between GDRC and the Trinidad Coastal Land Trust began. Presently, the sale of a 45-acre parcel surrounding Strawberry Rock and the trail that leads to it is pending.

The company is now attempting to log the area left unprotected by the land trust deal under a new plan which was approved, after more than a year of delay, in November 2019. Logging operations began in the area in March 2020. Lord's Light Logging, a contractor for GDRC, cut approximately 75% of Unit A of the Timber Harvest Plan before RFD raised a treesit platform and successfully stopped logging operations for the time being.