Pacific Lumber and other subsidiaries of Maxxam Corporation filed bankruptcy papers in court in Corpus Christi, Texas late Thursday. The company’s press release claims a “liquidity crisis from regulatory limitations” on logging, but it is actually due to a long-standing crisis of LIQUIDATION LOGGING, with most of the assets from that liquidation logging going to Houston rather than staying in Humboldt county. More than 2 decades after Maxxam’s corporate-raider style take-over of Pacific Lumber, we have arrived where we have been headed. While this is not unexpected, the repercussions are many, and we expect a complicated unfolding of events. When …

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>< UPDATE and ALERT from the Bay Area Coalition for Headwaters January 1, 2008 >< :: Pacific Lumber Bankruptcy Update ::Update on the Oak Grove Tree Sit in Berkeley PACIFIC LUMBER IS ONE YEAR INTO BANKRUPTCY AND A SHIFT IS FINALLY MANIFESTING The last lengthy update we sent you on the Pacific Lumber situation was covering their long-awaited reorganization plan, released publicly and submitted to the Texas bankruptcy court in late September. Our Oct. 2 update detailed their plans to sell their old growth for an exorbitant price tag to a non-existent buyer, sell another 22,000 acres for high-end luxury ...

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>< UPDATE and ALERT from the Bay Area Coalition for Headwaters January 1, 2008 >< :: Pacific Lumber Bankruptcy Update ::Update on the Oak Grove Tree Sit in Berkeley PACIFIC LUMBER IS ONE YEAR INTO BANKRUPTCY AND A SHIFT IS FINALLY MANIFESTING The last lengthy update we sent you on the Pacific Lumber situation was covering their long-awaited reorganization plan, released publicly and submitted to the Texas bankruptcy court in late September. Our Oct. 2 update detailed their plans to sell their old growth for an exorbitant price tag to a non-existent buyer, sell another 22,000 acres for high-end luxury ...

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>< >< Special Notice from the Bay Area Coalition for Headwaters December 11, 2006 >< >< Since many of you on our list live in the Bay Area, we are sending this notice, not about the old growth forests in northern California, but about grandmother trees right here in our close by back yard. There is a grove of beautiful old live oak trees on the UC Berkeley campus that UCB regents in their (lack of) wisdom are planning to level, to expand the university's sport stadium. These trees have massive, spreading branches, and the grove includes a couple redwoods ...

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>< >< INVITATION from the Bay Area Coalition for Headwaters November 14, 2006 >< >< Please join us to celebrate ACTIVISM at our gala event: Silent Auction, Live MUSIC by the Mercury Dimes, Pat Nevin (Grapefruit Ed) & Friends and Truth Out editor Kelpie Wilson speaking about bonobos & signing her novel Primal Tears plus Delectable Appetizer Buffet!     Sunday, December 3, 6-10pm     La Peña Cultural Center 3105 Shattuck, Berkeley (near BART) Benefits the Bay Area Coalition for Headwaters The wonderful auction items on display include ~ sleeping bags, Patagonia gear, Hot Springs retreats at Orr, Wilbur, Harbin, Osento ...

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Public COMMENTS NEEDED on endangered marbled murrelet habitat For a moment, imagine yourself in charge of a wildlife agency responsible for ensuring that our premier environmental law-the Endangered Species Act (ESA)-was working to help endangered species recover. You learn that the population of a bird dependant upon old growth forests for habitat has plummeted dramatically over the last couple decades, hanging on the precipice of extinction in some areas, including California. What would be the responsible and logical thing for you to do?  Slash its critical habitat acreage by over 90 % ? That is precisely what the U.S. Fish …

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The Misty Redwood Run is a 10 K fun run on a gorgeous trail through the towering redwoods in Redwood Regional Park in the east bay. It benefits the Bay Area Coalition for Headwaters. WHEN: Sunday, September 17, 2006 8:30 am start 10:30 am age group and division awards WHERE: Redwood Regional Park, Redwood Gate entrance in the East Bay Hills 7867 Redwood Rd., Oakland. Directions below. Register online at  http://www.theschedule.com/eventinfo.cfm?eventID+10675 $20 online registration fee. Last day for on-line registration Sept. 15; $25 day of race registration. (For mail, make check payable to Ecology Center/BACH and mail to Bay Area …

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Buffalo Field Campaign Road Show with music by 7th Generation Rise (Indigenous Funk) Join us for an evening of storytelling, music, discussion and video presentation to find out why state and federal agencies are using your tax dollars to kill America’s last wild buffalo. When: Thursday, September 7, 2006 at 7 pm Where: Ecology Center 2530 San Pablo Ave. (betw. Parker & Dwight), Berkeley wheelchair accessible Contact: 510-548-2220 Mike Mease, co-founder of Buffalo Field Campaign, will share exclusive video footage shot last winter, discuss the plight of Yellowstone’s wild buffalo, and tell how we can stop the senseless slaughter of …

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We are asking you to call your elected representatives to oppose the “log the Sequoia Monument” bill, HR 5760, and also tell them to support and co-sponsor the “Act to save America’s Forests”, S.1897. See details below. On July 11, Republican Congressman Devin Nunes of California’s 21st District introduced bill HR 5760 titled the “Giant Sequoia National Monument Transition Act of 2006,” which would allow expired timber sales to be implemented in the Monument. The purpose of the bill is to arbitrarily counteract the court decisions of 2005 that halted timber sales grandfathered in by the Proclamation and to forestall …

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Five years after replacing John Campbell as president of Pacific Lumber, PL president and CEO Robert Manne is leaving Maxxam/PL. Campbell was with PL when Maxxam took over the company in 1985, and things have certainly changed since then. The past five years have been a time of major change, as Maxxam clearly is designing their end game for Pacific Lumber and their holdings of redwood forest on the north coast. Particularly since major refinancing in 1998, keeping the purchase debt at extraordinarily high levels, and the Headwaters Deal in 1999, with most of the cash from that lucrative deal …

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