Your visit to the Jenner site will give you useful information about many aspects of Jenner, to include avenues to other resources.  Documents, maps, graphics, links to public and private organizations, and individuals associated with Jenner are here included.  The following links will take you to more detailed introductions and links to other pages, while the menu to the left will take you directly to Jenner's important community catagories.
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CLICK HERE to learn about Jenner's location, weather, geography, demography, and all that contributes to the nature and appearance of this beautiful place.  Check here in the near future to view assembled photographs of the area.
Take a few moments to consider Jenner Issues and how they may directly and indirectly affect you.  If possible, help either by active community participation or by supporting organizations having concern for a high quality of life in Jenner and for the sustained maintenance of its environment.  Major areas of concern are in the Jenner Watershed, the Russian River Estuary and Penney Island, and Sonoma Coast Beaches in the Jenner area.
While Jenner itself seems but a small coastal town, many who call themselves Jenner residents actually live in the vicinity locations of Bridgehaven, Muniz Ranch, and the Goat Rock area, while all are blessed to have the relatively undeveloped areas of Penny Island, the old Rule Ranch, Willow Creek, and the Sonoma Coast nearby.
As Jenner's sole source of potable drinking water and as a primary Class I tributary salmonid habitat connected to the Russian River Estuary, the Jenner Watershed is a vital resource deserving to watershed planning and protection.  For quite a few years, certain private interests have wished to conduct logging operations within the watershed, and while doing such is recognized as a privilege of property ownership, it is of widespread contention that any timbering must be done in such manner as to insure against environmental degradation.  For this sound reason, Jenner remains unrelenting in its requirement that all timbering operations can be acceptable only when a return to baseline conditions is guaranteed within the process of the regulating agencies, the California Department of Forestry and the North Coast Regional Water Quality Control Board.
Jenner's position next to the Pacific Ocean brings the town into direct relationship with factors common only to coastal residents.  The town is fortunate to have outstanding vistas in a moderate climate, but those very qualities of beauty and isolation also invite an influx of many factors which range from advantage to disadvantage to local residents.
Jenner is a primarily residential community with a transient (rental) population increase on weekends and holidays.  Public and commercial enterprises include the United States Post Office, River's End Restaurant, Seagull Gifts, Jenner Inn, and a convenience store gas station.  Jenner is not an incorporated town, and it does not have a municipal government.
Jenner has several organizations that serve the town by maintaining open and direct dialogue with government representatives and agencies, and with property owners and residents.  The foremost organization currently in Jenner is the Jenner Community Club (JCC), which serves the community both in social capacity and as a vehicle for finding consensus of opinion.  Addressing issues of the town's water system and source is the Jenner Water Citizens Advisory Committee (JWCAC).  Issues relevant to coastal areas administered by the California Department of Parks and Recreation, to include the Russian River Estuary, Penney Island, Goat Rock Beach, and the mouth of the Russian River, is the Sonoma Coast State Beaches Advisory Committee.
The Jenner Community Club (JCC) is a 501(c)3 Not-for-Profit organization that maintains a facility and active membership of many town residents.  The club sponsors many social events and fundraisers for the benefit of the community and environment.
The Sonoma County Board of Supervisors has appointed certain residents and property owners to serve on a voluntary basis on The Jenner Water Citizens Advisory Committee (JWCAC) which acts in a watchdog capacity for the preservation and well-being of the quality and quantity of the town's water source and supply.
In addtion to those organizations having stated mission and charter, Jenner has various associations of people who have come together with common interests and goals.  The Penny Island Artists Collective and the Jenner-Osaka Sushi Society are but a sampling of what innovation and drive will produce.
Jenner enjoys a rich and varied past going back to the times that histories were transmitted through the generations of native peoples by spoken word only.  Throughout the coastal hills one can find remnants of obsidian and chert flakes, not to overlook locations that show traces of thousands of years worth of village fires.  With the advent of European colonization, the Russian River, then known as the Slavianka, became the boundary between the southern lands claimed by Spain as Alta California, and the northern lands of Czarist Russia's farthest outpost, Kolonie Rossya (Fort Ross); even though diplomats from these two world powers haggled over Russia's right to be in California, life among the locals was calm with Russian agriculture beginning to prosper in Willow Creek valley, and trade of cattle for armaments between the Spanish and Russian garrisons.  In later years (circa 1904), the A. B. Davis Lumber Company conducted logging and milling operations in Jenner.
If you're not involved with local issues but you have enjoyed this site or you have further questions, please take this opportunity to Write to Our Community via the Jenner Community Club.
Visitors to the Jenner Community website are welcomed and encouraged to sign our guestbook, leaving comments describing their impressions of town, area, and site.  Please take a few moments to leave us a message.  You'll find our Guestbook to be an easy way to communicate with the Jenner Community.
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