Bay Area Coalition for Headwaters

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,…

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…

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…

>< 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…

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…

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…

>>>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,…

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…

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…

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…