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News from the North Coast and the Bay Area

September 12, 2024December 18, 2023 by Karen Pickett

Dear friend of the forest, We believe in the power and in the basic common sense of coalition work and alliances. We believe that working with other organizations and individuals brings together deeper, more diverse perspectives, and expands knowledge and skills that one organization simply could not muster. Diversity is strength. We also believe strongly in standing in solidarity with our indigenous allies. When faced with agency misconduct around sacred sites and the issue of tribal co-management of ancestral homelands, following the tribal lead is the route to arriving at wise decisions.The Bay Area Coalition for Headwaters (BACH) …

Trade Deals Between World Leaders Are Counter to Climate Solutions!

September 12, 2024October 30, 2023 by Karen Pickett

The Asian Pacific Economic Cooperation Forum will bring 1200 corporate CEOs and 20 heads of state to OUR backyard. They will be negotiating trade deals that cover 60% of global energy systems and impact some of the most climate-vulnerable areas of the world. They need to see and hear resistance. The big APEC summit is coming up next month, Nov. 11 – 18 in San Francisco. There’s a broader No2APEC coalition that a number of Bay Area climate justice organizers have been an active part of, and they have been building out a parallel/overlapping Climate Justice contingent as part of that. It’s …

Tell CalFire: Don’t shut us out of new Jackson Forest plan!

September 12, 2024August 8, 2023 by Karen Pickett

Action Alert: INCLUDE tribal and public voices & environmental protections in overhaul of Jackson Forest Management –> Tell CalFire: You Cannot Shut Us Out!” <– At the next meeting in September of the Jackson Advisory Group (JAG), the citizen body tasked with advising the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (CalFire) on the management of Jackson Demonstration State Forest (JDSF), CalFire will ask the JAG to approve the consultant job to conduct the revision of the JDSF management plan. We are at a crossroads with the Jackson Forest. Faced with the opportunity to transform this public land from a demonstration of industrial forestry to …

Dances With Caltrans–Here we go again

March 24, 2023 by Karen Pickett

RICHARDSON GROVE REDWOODS: Here we go again: Same ill-conceived project, same clueless agency, same beneficiaries (the trucking industry and big box stores) Richardson Grove State Park in southern Humboldt County, is one of the state’s oldest state parks and and is one of the last protected stands of old-growth redwood trees in the world. The park has essential habitat for protected species, and its creeks support runs of imperiled salmon and steelhead trout, in addition to being a revered and popular camping area, called “the gateway to the redwoods”. The state transportation agency Caltrans seeks to widen and straighten the …

Please sign the Jackson Forest Petition!

March 24, 2023November 11, 2022 by Karen Pickett

Sign the Petition to Save Jackson Forest and Support the Coyote Valley Band of Pomo Indians Please sign this petition to declare your support of the objectives of the Coyote Valley Band of Pomo Indians, Pomo Land Back and the Coalition to Save Jackson State Forest. Specifically: Jackson Demonstration State Forest (JDSF) is the largest state forest in California at nearly 50,000 acres. It is located in the unceded ancestral Northern Pomo and Coast Yuki territory of the Coyote Valley Band of Pomo Indians. Since its inception in 1947, the State has primarily managed this forest to cut it for profit, not preserve it. This state-owned …

Alert: Tell CalFire No Logging Sacred Sites!

March 24, 2023October 25, 2022 by Karen Pickett

Action Alert: Tell CalFire NOT TO Resume Logging Jackson State Forest Take Action!CalFire announced on Monday, October 17th that timber operations would resume in the controversial Caspar 500 Timber Harvest Plan (THP) located in Jackson Demonstration State Forest (JDSF). The plan has been at the center of over two years of protest in the state-owned timberland located in Mendocino County. As originally proposed, the plan would cut down large, second growth redwood trees, add new roads, harm a Native American sacred site, and impact a popular hiking trail. Such a plan would have been horrifying on a private industrial forest, let alone on …

Join Us for Jackson Forest Rally in Sacramento!

March 24, 2023September 19, 2022 by Karen Pickett

Please join the Coalition to Save Jackson at a “30×30” Kick Off Rally on September 28th, 2022! The rally begins at 11 am, outside the California Natural Resources Agency’s 30×30 Kick Off Event: Sacramento Rally for Pomo Land Back and Protection of Jackson Forest Wed Sep 28th 11am-4pm Natural Resources Agency: 715 P St The State of California has committed to protecting 30% of all land and water by 2030 — goals that are now commonly referred to as the 30×30 initiatives. These initiatives aim to protect the places that science confirms are critical to combat climate change. The Save Jackson Coalition …

Logging Will Restart in Jackson in Face of Tribal Negotiations

August 27, 2022 by Karen Pickett

CalFire announced today that logging would resume in the Jackson Demonstration State Forest in Mendocino County, previously put on “pause” while negotiations with local Tribal nations were underway. CalFire made this announcement without informing the Tribes that they have been at the table with for six months. Shame CAL FIRE’s Deception & Stop Logging in Jackson Demonstration State Forest In the fall of 2021, in response to protests, CALFIRE agreed to stop logging on Pomo homelands in Jackson Demonstration State Forest (JDSF) in Mendocino County, while discussing Co-Management Agreements with local Tribes and rewriting its Management Plan. Please join us …

News from Jackson State Forest–Active Times!

August 27, 2022June 15, 2022 by Karen Pickett

We don’t usually forward material from other groups, but one of our colleague organizations in the Jackson State Forest campaign, the Mendocino Trail Stewards, recently put out a comprehensive newsletter bringing readers up to date on Jackson Demonstration State Forest, one of the hottest forest issues right now on California’s’ North Coast, so we share some exerpts with you. Read on! Let the Forest Heal The National Geographic’s latest special edition on Saving Forests has a “Solutions” article entitled, “A New Plan in Germany: Leave Forests Alone and Allow Nature to Heal Itself,” by Andrew Curry. This is the model …

May 24 is Judi Bari Day! Marking Milestones and Honoring Fallen Warriors

August 27, 2022May 18, 2022 by Karen Pickett

Join us at 11am at Park Blvd and E34 St in Oakland on Tuesday, May 24 to celebrate and honor Judi Bari and Dennis Cunningham. We’ll create a street mural and speak out as we renew our defense of civil liberties and biodiversity on earth! The 32nd anniversary of the politically-motivated and nearly deadly 1990 bomb attack on Earth First!ers Judi Bari and Darryl Cherney is May 24, 2022. We’ll gather at 11 am at the place where the bomb exploded and nearly killed the activists. Join us so together we can create revolutionary art in the street (wear clothes you can paint in) and hang banners and pictures! After creating street …