About BACH
The Bay Area Coalition for Headwaters (BACH) collaborates with grassroots activists and organizations working on forest habitat and species issues.
BACH uses a diversity of tactics and strategies to advocate for ecologically sound solutions for the forest ecosystems of California’s North Coast.
Our campaign work has included forest and species defense in the redwood ecosystem, Headwaters Forest, the Mattole Watershed, work with Indigenous people on Land Back and sacred site protection, Jackson State Forest, and many other areas.
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Stay up to date with our work, the ever-evolving threats to the forest environment and its inhabitants, and ways to plug in.
Our alerts are short, infrequent and to the point. We include news from forest campaigns and events on the North Coast of California and related events in the Bay Area.
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Speak up for Jackson forest in october & november!
The agency that manages the Jackson Demonstration State Forest—CalFire—has released their draft plan for public input, for their intention to finalize a new Management Plan in early 2026. You can find the draft Management Plan here: https://www.fire.ca.gov/what-we-do/natural-resource-management/demonstration-state-forests/jackson-demonstration-state-forest. The list of public input meetings is below. You can submit comments in person or by email.The draft plan is rife with problems. CalFire did NOT put in place infrastructure to have tribal co-management so that tribes (whose ancestral land encompasses JDSF) could have an equal, meaningful seat at the table during the planning process. CalFire is NOT complying with the state’s premier…
Celebrate revolutionary ecology on judi bari day
On the 35th anniversary of the bombing of Judi Bari, Darryl Cherney & COINTELPRO attack on Earth First! A celebration and statement of revolutionary resistance & movement solidarity. Saturday , May 24 11:30-12:30 Park Blvd. & East 34st St., Oakland (near MacArthur Fwy at Park @ alcove @ ~3401 Park Blvd across from Arco) Help create pavement art as a tribute to Judi and all facing state repression today. We mark the moment of the bomb explosion in Judi’s car under her seat. Commemorating an act of extreme violence against an activist 35 years ago is not an isolated incident….
Speak out on new logging plan in Jackson
ACTION ALERT: Speak Out on New Logging Plan in Jackson Demonstration State ForestCal Fire is moving forward with a new Timber Harvest Plan(THP)—the FIRST since community protests in 2020-2021 effectively paused all THPs. This proposed plan, known as AMEX, targets nearly 500 acres (484) near Chamberlain Creek (Mendocino County), using a method called group selection harvesting, which essentially results in a series of small patchwork clear-cuts. This THP is especially significant, being the first plan Cal Fire has proposed since the widespread public outcry and protests in 2020 and 2021 around Jackson. In the wake of those protests, and in response…
Update on Jackson forest
Jackson State ForestMarch 2025 Update What’s happening in Jackson State Forest? BACH is part of the Coalition to Save Jackson Forest, and we haven’t sent an update in a while. so want to bring you up to current. Some of you know that Priscilla Hunter, Pomo tribal leader, friend, visionary leader for the Jackson Forest campaign and so many other campaigns and organizations, initiator and leader of the Intertribal Sinkyone Wilderness Council, joined the ancestors in November of 2024. (Priscilla at the Rally at the S.F. Army Corps of Engineers to protest the Willits Bypass) Her intuitive sense of politics, deep wisdom…
The History of Our Founding
Headwaters Forest Campaign History
Starting the 1980s, environmental activists used non-violent direct action to slow the logging of ancient redwoods on California’s North Coast. Read about this about this over two-decades-long campaign which resulted in the preservation of the Headwaters Forest Reserve.
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Headwaters Forest Reserve
The Bay Area Coalition for Headwaters (BACH) has taken a leadership role in the Headwaters Forest Reserve planning process through our Wilderness Forever! project.
BACH was successful in getting more protections on sensitive habitat, in response to concerns about impacts of human recreational use.
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