Bay Area Coalition for Headwaters

Forest Activist UPDATE and EVENT NOTICE

May 14, 2008 by

Forest Activist UPDATE and EVENT NOTICE After event-filled bankruptcy court hearings in Corpus Christi, Texas in late April/early May, what the judge is calling “final hearings” will take place May 15 and 16. (See our 5/4 update and spring newsletter). These hearings will be followed by a **DECISION** regarding who will sit in the driver’s seat, making decisions about management of over 200,000 acres of redwoods, doug fir forest and coho salmon streams that Maxxam took over 2 decades ago. COME and hear the outcome at a BACH get-together on THURSDAY, MAY 29, at the ECOLOGY CENTER, 2530 San Pablo …

Bankruptcy, Oaks & Earth Day

April 5, 2007 by

>< >< Forest UPDATE from the Bay Area Coalition for Headwaters April 5, 2007 >< >< We want to THANK everyone who came to our fabulous STOMP THE STUMPS benefit dance party at Ashkenaz in March, and give a BIG shout out in gratitude for the wonderful bands that kept everyone dancing and smiling all night! The GREAT Gary Gates Band, the FABULOUS Funky Nixons and WONDERFUL Workingman's Ed -- we thank you! **************** PACIFIC LUMBER'S BANKRUPTCY proceedings are continuing in bankruptcy court in Corpus Christi, Texas, the big issues on the table at present being whether the proceedings will ...

Stomp the Stumps

March 10, 2007 by

9th annual STOMP the STUMPS BENEFIT DANCE PARTY!! Come out for a rollicking good time dancing to wonderful music with good friends that will benefit forest activist work! FRIDAY, MARCH 16 ASHKENAZ Community and Dance club 1317 San Pablo Ave. (at Gilman), Berkeley “Stomp the Stumps” dance party with LIVE MUSIC: We have a stellar line up that includes WORKINGMAN’S ED, the FUNKY NIXONS and the GARY GATES BAND ! Wow! We will, as always, be bustling with videos and news about the Redwood Forests, the Oak Grove and t-shirt tables in the back ACTION room. Doors at 8, music …

Forest benefit at Ashkenaz 3/16: Stomp the Stumps!

March 9, 2007 by

Upcoming events tree-huggers and forest activists will want to know about

February 23, 2007 by

>>>Pacific Lumber Bankruptcy Update next Tuesday >>>Oak Grove Walks and Salons >>>Siskiyou Institute event >>>Sierra Nevada presentation **Please come to our agitate-educate-activate get-together on TUESDAY, FEB. 27, 7-9 pm to talk about PACIFIC LUMBER’S BANKRUPTCY, and what it means for the forests of the north coast and the rural economies. We will have a presentation from the Humboldt WATERSHED COUNCIL that we think you will find interesting. We will also have updates about the Oak Grove in Berkeley. Join us for a stimulating activist discussion at the Ecology Center, 2530 San Pablo Ave., Berkeley. Info call 510-548-3113. >< Events at ...

Forest Update

February 14, 2007 by

>:>:>Update on PL Bankruptcy >:>:>Update on OAK GROVE in Berkeley & Community Tree-Sit Day! >:>:>Upcoming events: Presentation on Pacific Lumber Possibilities, >Stomp the Stumps party >:>:>:>:>POSSIBILITIES ABOUND AROUND PACIFIC LUMBER BANKRUPTCY When Pacific Lumber filed for bankruptcy on January 18, it didn’t surprise many people. In fact, forest and community activists had begun meeting to strategize for expected changes more than a year and a half ago after PL had been rather loudly and pointedly threatening bankruptcy to pressure regulatory agencies to give them more logging capability. A lot has happened since Jan. 18. On the positive side, there are …

Pacific Lumber Files for Bankruptcy

January 19, 2007 by

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 …

Update on Pacific Lumber and Berkeley Oaks

January 3, 2007 by

>< 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 ...

Update on Pacific Lumber and Berkeley Oaks

January 3, 2007 by

Visit the Oak Tree-Sit in Berkeley!

December 11, 2006 by

>< >< 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 ...