Pacific Lumber Bankruptcy Resolved: Maxxam is out of the Redwoods! [Maxxam has left the building. Almost.
The much anticipated decision in the Pacific Lumber bankruptcy case came down today with a decision that takes control of Humboldt County's redwoods out of Maxxam/Hurwitz/Pacific Lumber hands, at long last.
Misty Redwood Run [Misty Redwoods Run. 10K fun run. Redwood Park Oakland.
September 27, 2005
Endangered Species Act (ESA) Under Attack [Alert re Pombo Bill to gut the Endangered Species Act, or ESA - pending legislation in Congress to weaken environmental protection
Water Board's Sept. hearing in Fortuna [Water Board's Sept. hearing in Fortuna Palco's Watershed-wide Waste Discharge Requirements permits for Freshwater and Elk River
Update on Maxxam manipulations [Maxxam Corp. has offered terms to the bondholders of its financially troubled timber company, Pacific Lumber subsidiary Scotia Pacific, various stakeholders have focused their attention on discussions
Forest Update [Water Board caves to PL pressure despite rivers of evidence
Pepper Spray by Q-tip civil rights trial nears, trial-related events in Bay Area
Forest activist get-together next week (April 7)
Day of Action for forests at Victoria's Secret April 14
Public hearing on Maxxam/PL logging MARCH 16 [The hearing will begin at 9 am. Come early to get a seat!
We recommend being there by 8 am. See http://www.waterboards.ca.gov/northcoast
A BILL TO PROTECT CALIFORNIA'S OLD-GROWTH TREES IS STUCK IN A [SB 754, the Heritage Tree Preservation Act, will permanently protect
the last of California's old-growth trees on nonfederal land,
including Coast redwoods, Douglas-firs and Giant sequoias. Less than
one percent of these ancient giants remain, yet they are still being
logged. This bill will protect these trees
AN ALERT ON THE ANCIENT TREES LEGISLATION [The Heritage Tree Preservation Act is alive and kicking! We have never been so close to protecting California's old-growth trees, but we need your help to make it a reality! Please join us in Sacramento on Wednesday, April 14th for Old-Growth Lobby Day. You can sign up at www.ancienttrees.org.
News Alert from the Redwoods [Maxxam's Pacific Lumber is financing 93 percent of the campaign to recall Humboldt County (CA) District Attorney Paul Gallegos in the last reporting period. D.A. Gallegos filed a $250 million lawsuit against Pacific Lumber, alleging fraud
February 5, 2004
Tree-sitter at State Capitol in Sacramento lobbies for bill [A man named Bear climbed a tree outside the California State Capitol today to raise awareness for SB 754, the Heritage Tree Act, which has been held up by the State Assembly's Natural Resources Committee.
January 22, 2004
Challenge to Pacific Lumber's recall campaign needs support [This is an alert about the outrageous recall effort underway, largely financed by Maxxam/Pacific Lumber to oust the Humboldt county District Attorney Paul Gallegos, who filed a fraud legal case against PL a number of months ago. (See story in our last newsletter, on our website, for background).
January 21, 2004
Jackson State Forest needs your letters NOW! [California state law now says that Jackson State Forest shall be logged for maximum timber production! This must be changed if our public forest is to be saved for our children!
Forest Update for November 2012 [HAPPY NEW YEAR!
We hope this is a good year for wild places everywhere and all of our fellow species! Take action to make it so.
With Maxxam gone, other timber companies threaten integrity of Headwaters Forest Reserve
Thirteen years after the historic transfer of the largest groves of ancient redwoods left on Maxxam/Pacific Lumber's ravaged land to public hands and protection as Headwaters Forest Reserve, other companies in the mold of Maxxam/PL are nipping at the edges of that precious forest. The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has done a stand up job over the last decade to protect and start to restore the 7,500 acre
Reserve, but has no control over other impacts adjacent to the protected Reserve, or along the Elk River Watershed. BLM has removed many miles of logging roads, removed non-native species, and has managed for multi-age forest, ripe to evolve into a larger chunk of ancient redwood forest. If you look at a map of the HW Reserve the long "arm" of protected land runs along the South Fork Elk River out from the groves, and in that stretch McCloud Creek flows into the Elk River from the south.
It is on McCloud Creek that Green Diamond Timber Co. (formerly Simpson) has filed a new 99 acre Timber Harvest Plan (THP) that would clearcut more than 70 acres, which can be expected to receive herbicide applications after clearcutting, according to Green Diamond's current practices. The Elk River watershed in its entirely has been hammered over the last couple decades, causing significant loss of forest habitat, invasive species, devastating flooding and landslides. Moreover, clearcutting and herbicide use run absolutely counter to restoration efforts. A request to extend the 2 week comment period has been filed--if granted we will direct comments to Cal Fire, the state Dept. of Forestry agency responsible for approving THPs. The state agency has already shown itself to be perfectly willing to give the green light to Green Diamond's intensive management practices of clearcuts and poisoning the land and water, even in sensitive habitat areas like Headwaters, effectively turning recovering forest into homogenous tree plantations. We will let you know if the comment period for "McCloud Creek #5 East" THP is extended.
Wild Roadless Area Threatened With "Salvage" Logging
The Kangaroo Roadless Area in the Klamath National Forest, one of the largest intact wild lands in the state is threatened with logging after a 2012 summer forest fire that left trees standing, burning primarily undergrowth. This is the way fires used to burn for millennia in a way that helped, rather than damaged forest ecosystems. The Forest Service is looking at helicopter logging the largest old growth snags (standing, burned trees) in the name of "forest health."
You can take action on this unnecessary incursion into California's precious wild country by going to a link on our colleague EPIC's site here.
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We always need donations to keep our small organization going. You can help by sending a donation (check made out to Ecology Center/BACH) to Bay Area Coalition for Headwaters, 2530 San Pablo Ave., Berkeley, CA 94702 or donation securely on-line at www.headwaterspreserve.org. We appreciate every bit of support, and so do the trees.
