Karen Pickett – Bay Area Coalition for Headwaters

Raise Your Voice! Jackson Forest meetings are now!

January 5, 2025October 24, 2024 by Karen Pickett

CalFire is holding 8 Public Meetings starting NOW: See below for schedule. Cal Fire is requesting “community insight” for the new Management Plan for Jackson Demonstration State Forest. Please attend and let Cal Fire know that they are in violation of California environmental review law and must wait until guidance on tribal co-management is provided by local Tribes and the California Natural Resources Agency. Information and registration for these meetings is provided below. Suggested Talking Points for the meetings can be found here. Strong participation is crucial, so mark your calendars and plan to attend as many of these meetings as possible! If you pre-register, you will be …

The Ghost Forest~Our Story

September 12, 2024March 17, 2024 by Karen Pickett

Join Greg King, as he presents on his deeply researched, amazing book “GHOST FOREST: Racists, Radicals and Real Estate in the California Redwoods.” Online Forest Protection Forum: March 18 at 4 pm Register HERE to join. How is it possible that humanity was ultimately able to protect only 80,000 acres, or 4 percent, or California’s original expanse of 2 million acres of coast redwood forest? The answer lies in a century-long determination by capitalists to not “preserve” but RESERVE as much ancient redwood as possible not for parks, but for industrial uses. The means to achieve such carte blanche in the woods have been cunning, usually illegal, and ongoing today. These …

Join us in Letting the Board of Forestry What Jackson Forest Needs

September 12, 2024January 21, 2024 by Karen Pickett

Members of the Coalition to Save Jackson State Forest made an agendized presentation to the CA Board of Forestry and Fire Protection in Sacramento for over an hour on December 6, 2023, which was followed by extensive public comment in support of a new vision for JDSF. Hi everyone,Our presentation to the Board of Forestry in Sacramento went well, we shared our vision for JDSF and put a lot of truth in the public record of the Board that oversees CalFire and JDSF. You can read a portion of the presentation in this written statement and watch video recordings of the Dec. 6th meeting (and Dec. …

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 …