— Old Growth Protected On Former Pacific Lumber Lands - Tree Sitters Descend When New Owners Humboldt Redwood Co. Deliver Message Directly to Them August 18, 2008
Eureka, CA-Community residents and forest activists from the redwood region and far beyond Humboldt County in Northern California, were relieved and elated as news spread of an unprecented commitment by Humboldt Redwood Company (HRC) owners of what was Maxxam/PL land to spare the Nanning Creek and Fern Gully ancient groves where tree-sits have been keeping chain saws at bay. The message was delivered directly to tree-sitters and included a commitment to further protect from future cutting all old growth 250 years old or more.
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— Environmental Groups Raise Alarm Over Sierra Pacific Bid May 16, 2008
Humboldt County, California - A coalition of environmental groups expressed alarm today at news that Sierra Pacific Industries (SPI) has entered the Pacific Lumber bankruptcy process with a bid to purchase and operate Pacific Lumber's Scotia, Cali...
— Hung Jury in Case of Support for Tree-Sitters in Oaks - Jan. 5, 2008
Oakland, CA-The 12 person jury ended their deliberations today just prior to 5 pm after being unable to reach a unanimous verdict in the Berkeley tree-sit case. The case had Eric Eisenberg, known as Ayr, on trial for violating an injunction that ...
— UC Police Issue Ultimatum to Tree-Sitters at Oak Grove 2-14-2007
Berkeley, Calif. - UC Berkeley police arrived at the threatened Memorial Oak Grove in Berkeley Wednesday afternoon to issue an ultimatum to the tree-sitters occupying 6 trees in the oak grove and their ground support, demanding that all tree-sitt...
— Oaks Tree-Sitter Challenges UC Berkeley Chancellor 1-23-2007
Berkeley, Calif.-Redwood Mary at 5 o'clock went into the Chancellor's University of California reception for new students and asked the Chancellor to support "us tree-sitters". Chancellor Birgeneau said "Absolutely no." Redwood Mary was then esc...
— Activists Take to the Trees to Defend Oak Grove 12-2-2006
Berkeley, CA -In early morning hours of Saturday, December 2, one University of California (UC) student and at least 2 local residents, including former mayoral candidate Zachary Running Wolf, climbed and occupied trees in a grove of Oaks that UC ...
— Tree-Sitter Lawsuits Against Maxxam/Pacific Lumber Multiply 1-17-05
Eureka, CA - Two more tree-sitters who had been forcibly removed from threatened ancient redwoods in Northern California have filed lawsuits against Maxxam Corporation, Pacific Lumber, and the men hired to seize them high above the ground. Amy Ge...
— Earth First! Activist Files Appeal in Freshwater Forest Defense Case 11-26-03
Attorney Ed Denson today filed a notice of intent to appeal the June conviction of Earth First! activist Naomi Wagner for resisting arrest last March. Wagner, who locked herself to a small tree at the base of a twelve-hundred-year-old redwood occu...
— Forest Activist Gets 40 Days in Humboldt County Jail 11-4-03
North Coast Earth First! activist Naomi Wagner was sentenced by Judge John A. Reinholtsen, on Thursday, November 30th, to 40 days in Humboldt County jail, following her conviction last June for resisting arrest. Wagner was arrested on March 17th a...
— Houston Tree-Sitters Make a New Nest High 7-7-03
Houston, TX -- Two intrepid tree-sitters traveled from the rural north coast of California to Houston, Texas to protest MAXXAM Corporation's destructive logging practices that are destroying their rivers, communities and forest habitat in Humboldt...
— PL Climbers Raid Tree-Sits Near Death Site Of David Gypsy Chain 6-16-03
Grizzly Creek, Ca.- After a several week pause, climbers hired by the Pacific Lumber Company are once again attempting to remove tree-sits that interfere with logging. This time however, their target is the "Tree-Village" which includes the old-gr...
— Salmon River Tree-Sits Blockaded by Federal Agents 6-3-03
Federal agents are blockading three tree-sits in the Klamath National Forest in the Salmon River watershed. The Salmon River is the only undammed, undiverted river that feeds the Klamath and has had three tree sits blocking part of the Glassups O...
— Maxxam Tree Climbers Arrest Tree-Sitter on Traverse 4-22-03
On Monday, during a drenching downpour, Maxxam/PL climber, Eric Schatz, ascended a "traverse line" to extract yet another tree sitter from one of the few old growth redwood trees still standing in the Freshwater watershed near Eureka. An intense s...
— Maxxam Tree Climbers Arrest Tree-Sitter on Traverse 4-21-03
On Monday, during a drenching downpour, Maxxam/PL climber, Eric Schatz, ascended a "traverse line" to extract yet another tree sitter from one of the few old growth redwood trees still standing in the Freshwater watershed near Eureka. An intense s...
— Restraining Order Upgrade Denied by Judge 3-24-03
Humboldt county judge Christopher Wilson today refused to grant Maxxam/Pacific Lumber's request to upgrade a current restraining order to a preliminary injunction. Judge Reinholtson issued the TRO two weeks ago against tree-sitters and other for...
— Battle Of Freshwater Rages On - One Arrested 3-20-03
Maxxam/ Pacific Lumber Company continued its assault on the treesitters in Freshwater, a rural-residential area between Eureka and Arcata in Humboldt County that has captured national and international attention, as well as the local front pages f...
— Remedy and Wren's Trees Re-occupied with Sitters and Platforms! 3-18-03
MAXXAM/Pacific Lumber illegally sealed off a public road all day yesterday, March 17, in order to extract marathon tree sitters, "Remedy" and "Wren," who had been up for 12 and 10 months, respectively. Remedy was days away from celebrating her one...
— Update on Pacific Lumber Assault on Freshwater Tree-Sits 3-17-03
After converging on the area this morning with heavy equipment, law enforcement and climbers, Pacific Lumber is proceeding with their plans to evict tree-sitters off their land. The tree-sits are in the Freshwater watershed in Humboldt county, e...
— Pacific Lumber, Law Enforcement at Freshwater To Extract Tree-Sitters 3-17-03
At least 20 people showed up at the tree-sits in Freshwater watershed east of Eureka this morning including PL security, Humboldt county sheriff's dept. and others, with equipment to try to extract tree-sitters from their perches high in old growt...
— Maxxam/Pacific Lumber Going After Tree-Sitters 3-5-03
This morning Pacific Lumber (PL) climbers arrived on the scene in Freshwater watershed in Humboldt county, where at least a dozen people have been sitting in trees, including Remedy who has been high in a redwood tree for over 11 months. Climber E...
— Water Agency Capitulates On Permit Requirements, OKs Renewed Logging 3-4-03
Last Thursday the Regional Water Quality Board (RWQB) cleared the way for logging in the sensitive Freshwater watershed by Pacific Lumber (PL). PL and their newly hired security firm have had a combative presence at the Freshwater tree-sits recent...
— Pacific Lumber Security Guard Cited for Assault on Freshwater Tree Sitter 3-3-03
On Saturday, March 1 at 12:30 p.m. in Freshwater, a security guard employed by Pacific Lumber slashed a tree sitter's hand while attempting to cut his climbing rope. The man wearing plain clothes and driving an unmarked car took photographs of th...
— Tree-sitter Celebrates Her 28th Birthday High in a Tree 1-3-03
Remedy, the young woman who has been living in a giant redwood tree she dubbed "Jerry", on Pacific Lumber property since March 2002, celebrates her 28th birthday today high in the branches on her small platform wrapped in tarps. However, instead ...
— Forest defender jailed through Christmas 12-26-02
The Grizzly Creek timber harvest plans were quiet this Christmas, but things were hardly quiet for Kim Starr, Humboldt Co. resident of 10 years. Kim spent Christmas eve and day in jail for caring about our ancient trees and rivers. Kim was arreste...
— Pacific Lumber Logging Crews Back in Woods 9-3-02
The roar of chain saws was back in the woods early Tuesday morning, as Pacific Lumber (PL) continued to ignore a court order halting logging on its 211,000-acre holdings. Activists were in the trees, on the ground in the forest, and headed for Pa...
— Jury Returns Split Verdict, One Conviction On Forest Activists 6-30-02
Following a three-week trial and three days of deliberation, a Humboldt County jury could not agree beyond the required reasonable doubt if two forest defenders, tree sitter Wren and Earth First! activist Naomi Wagner, were actually on Maxxam/PL p...
