When: Wed., Nov. 30, 7 pm Where: BACH office 2530 San Pablo Ave., Berkeley (between Parker & Dwight) Office is in the back of the building–suite F What: Discussion about old growth logging going on RIGHT NOW in the Bonanza Timber Harvest Plan in prime marbled murrelet habitat. Find out about action camp, tree sits, legal avenues and talk about what we can do. We hope to have the capability to show short film footage from the ancient redwood grove. Why: Because the murrelets, the coho, the owls, the salamanders don’t choose to live by capitalism and the Maxxam rules.

Unitarian Fellowship Hall    1924 Cedar, north Berkeley (nr BART) wheelchair accessible Sunday, November 20, 6 – 10pm Info: BACH 510-548-3113 Silent Auction with amazing goodies like ~ a stay at Harbin Hot Springs, a B & B on the ocean with kayaking or bicycling, or the soothing hot water of Osento or Piedmont Springs dinners at Bay Area restaurants like Café de la Paz, Blowfish Sushi & many others Patagonia, Marmot Mountain gear original artwork Dr. Bronner’s or Trader Joe’s gift basket a month of bikrim yoga chiropractic treatments Hemp clothing from Two Star Dog classes at The Crucible Gift …

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The Misty Redwood Run is a 10 K fun run that benefits the Bay Area Coalition for Headwaters. Saturday, Oct. 22, 2005 8:30 am start Redwood Regional Park, Redwood Gate entrance in the East Bay Hills 7867 Redwood Rd., Oakland — Map here: Register online at  http://www.theschedule.com/eventinfo.cfm?eventID+10675 $20 online registration fee; $25 day of race registration (for mail, make check payable to BACH mailed to Misty Redwood Run, 6021 Valley View Rd., Oakland, CA 94611) Join us for an unforgettable loop through magnificent redwood groves, along a shaded creek and up to a scenic overlook, through a canyon, to the …

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>< URGENT ALERT from the Bay Area Coalition for Headwaters September 27, 2005 >< ENDANGERED SPECIES ACT (ESA) UNDER ATTACK PLEASE CALL YOUR CONGRESSIONAL REPRESENTATIVES !!! POMBO BILL WOULD RIP THE HEART OUT OF THE ENDANGERED SPECIES ACT Thirty Years of Progress Threatened by Industry Wish List Bill U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Resources Chairman Richard Pombo, long a foe of the Endangered Species Act, introduced a bill last week that would significantly weaken protections for our fish, plants, wildlife, and the places they call home. The House Resources Committee approved the bill last week and the legislation now ...

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Important Hearing Regarding Headwaters Forest Friday September 16, 9:00 – 11:00 in San Francisco In 1999 the state and federal government completed a deal with the Pacific Lumber Company to purchase roughly 7,500 acres of Headwaters Forest in Humboldt County near Eureka. This deal was contingent upon a complex framework of federal and state documents detailing how future logging would protect forests, endangered species and timber jobs over the next 50 years. The Environmental Protection Information Center (EPIC) and the Sierra Club were intimately involved in reviewing all of these long term management documents. Based on the review of our …

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Notice regarding the evidentiary hearing about the watershed-specific discharge requrirements being considered by the North Coast Regional Water Quality Control Board, taking place in Fortuna on Sept. 14 If you may be attending this hearing, read on. It will probably not be possible to sign up to speak at the hearing. Any persons wishing to speak at the Regional Water Board’s September 14th hearing on Palco’s Watershed-wide Waste Discharge Requirements permits for Freshwater and Elk River need to contact the Regional Water Board as soon as possible to assure a time slot. The Regional Water Board is making the final …

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>>>Hurwitz is enriched–once again>NEW CAMPAIGN TO FIGHT CLEAR CUTTINGMr. Nehring does not meet the qualifications for the job, as outlined in Sec. 731 of the Public Resources Code of California >>Mr. Nehring hs no experience dealing with problems relating to watershed management (including hydrology and soil science), forest management practices, fish and wildlife, range management, forest economics or land use planning. >>California’s forests deserve better leadership. Ask Sen. Perata to NOT confirm Mr. Nehring to this position. —

Will there soon be a NEW owner of redwood forest in Humboldt county? You may have read news reports today-here is a breakdown of information in a hasty synopsis. With the announcement that 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 that are, for the most part, taking place behind closed doors. Scotia Pacific (ScoPac) released a report on Monday Aug. 1 to the Securities and Exchange Commission outlining an offer to the company’s bondholders of 90% of the equity in …

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COMMENT to the Regional Water Board on Proposed New Limitations on Pacific Lumber Logging The DEADLINE HAS BEEN EXTENDED to Monday, August 8, 2005. Write to: North Coast Regional Water Quality Control Board 5550 Skylane Boulevard, Suite A Santa Rosa, CA 95403 or email to dkuszmar@waterboards.ca.gov or fax to 805-788-3579 The proposed Waste Discharge Requirements (WDRs) are watershed-specific requirements designed to address the cumulative impacts from timber harvesting activities in the two watersheds–Freshwater and Elk River–whose rivers are already listed as impaired for sediment and temperature under the Clean Water Act. “Waste discharge” in this case is silt and sediments …

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As you read in our previous alerts, the Maxxam-owned subsidiaries ravaging the redwoods in northern California had been loudly forcasting chaos and ruin because of impending bankruptcy. The day of reckoning was tomorrow, July 20, because of an interest payment due from Scotia Pacific (now a subsidiary of Pacific Lumber, via Maxxam’s 1998 refinancing). The bankruptcy has been averted, at least for the moment, due to an “early payment” from Pacific Lumber’s mills that handles the logs from the logging operations. It was only by the skin of their teeth (fangs?) that the company avoided default, however, and they continue …

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