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| Featured Articles  The Bay Area Forest Activist It Was Predictable All Along Maxxam's Bleeding of Humboldt County What We Know [ READ MORE ] Call To Action! Logging in Nanning Creek Grove ...Bonanza For Whom? Maxxam/Pacific Lumber (PL) has been moving forward with their plan to destroy the last remnants of the habitat of the threatened marbled murrelet in Northern California. It is not so much that they specifically have it out for the secretive and diminutive seabird, as it is the bird is in the way. But murrelets make their nests on the broad upper branches of old growth trees, which happen to be of high value in today's timber market. The Endangered Species Act (ESA) should protect species that are threatened with extinction due to habitat loss, as the murrelet is. However, ESA protections on PL land were eclipsed by a part of the 1999 Headwaters Deal called the Habitat Conservation Plan that gives PL a special permit to "take" (kill) murrelets and hundreds of acres of their old growth habitat. [ READ MORE ] << Back to Newsletter | Newsroom Subscribe Get action alerts, updates, and other important news in your email inbox by signing up with your email address here: Learn more about events | See the BACHList FAQ |
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