Day: February 18, 2005

dear BACHsters, This is an interesting piece that just appeared in the Eureka Reporter, an interview with the president of the Humboldt Watershed Council. It helps in understanding how we arrived at the unsustainable rate of harvest that PL is now complaining about mightily as being too low, and how Maxxam is raking off $100 million a year in profits for the past 20 years while keeping PL fully in debt and on the verge of bankruptcy in order to pressure regulatory agencies. http://www.eurekareporter.com/Stories/fp-02170507.htm One-on-one with Mark Lovelace by Glenn Franco Simmons The Eureka Reporter (Editor?s note: In last week?s …

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Public COMMENTS NEEDED on huge old growth logging plan Sierra Pacific Industries (SPI), who amassed a gigantic land base from railroad grant lands in the late 1800s, making them the largest private landowner in the nation, and making its chair Red Emmerson one of the richest individuals in the U.S. is planning to log a large chunk of old growth forest on our north coast. Known for their rapacious practices in the Sierras, SPI now has considerable holdings in Humboldt county, including a parcel on Davis Creek near Petrolia in southern Humboldt, previously (publicly) owned by the Bureau of Land …

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