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Water Board hearing tomorrow, old growth hikes, other news re. Pacific Lumber
REMINDER– State Water Board will decide at a hearing JUNE 16 whether the stay on logging in the impaired watersheds of Elk River and Freshwater will stand. (See BACH’s April 7 and March 30 alerts for details). We re-post EPIC’s alert below, which also includes information about old growth forest hikes. Also check out detailed…
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Forest Update
Water Board caves to PL pressure despite rivers of evidence Pepper Spray by Q-tip civil rights trial nears, trial-related events in Bay Area Forest activist get-together next week (April 7) Day of Action for forests at Victoria’s Secret April 14 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ WATER REGULATORS CAVE ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ On March 10, we alerted this list regarding the March…
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Hearing re. PL logging before Water Board CHANGED
On March 10, we alerted this list regarding the Wednesday, March 16 North Coast Regional Water Quality Control Board (NCRWQCB) public hearing in Santa Rosa to consider demands by Maxxam/Pacific Lumber Co. (PL) for authorization to conduct extensive logging in two of its severely fractured watersheds, Elk River and Freshwater Creek. That hearing is still…
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Big Timber’s Last Stand. PL vs. Water Board
Please come to Wednesday’s Water Board meeting in Santa Rosa if you can! http://www1.pressdemocrat.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050313/NEWS/503130302/1033/NEWS01 Big Timber’s Last Stand The Latest Tree War Pits Pacific Lumber’s Logging Plan Against an Agency Aiming To Protect Streams From Runoff Sunday, March 13, 2005 By MIKE GENIELLA THE PRESS DEMOCRAT For two decades, the North Coast timber wars have…
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Public hearing on Maxxam/PL logging MARCH 16
IMPORTANT PUBLIC HEARING! ATTENDANCE NEEDED! DATE: Wednesday, March 16, 2005 TIME: The hearing will begin at 9 am. Come early to get a seat! We recommend being there by 8 am. See http://www.waterboards.ca.gov/northcoast/agenda/03_2005/03_2005.html for the agenda. PLACE: North Coast Regional Water Quality Control Board 5550 Skylane Blvd., Suite A, Santa Rosa (directions below) Regional Water…
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Water Board OKs Fifty Percent of PL’s Logging in Disputed Watersheds
BACHsters: This piece, written by Remedy, covers the decision made yesterday by the Water Board regarding the contentious timber harvest plans that Maxxam/PL has been trying to get approved by threatening bankruptcy (see previous BACH alerts). Your BACH rep attended the hearing in Eureka Feb. 23 when both PL and the watershed residents presented their…
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Pacific Lumber: It keeps heating up
press coverage we thought would interest you THE NATION A Titan of Logging Threatens to Topple By Tim Reiterman Times Staff Writer February 21, 2005 REDCREST, Calif. – Whenever Pacific Lumber Co. planned to dispatch helicopters to log its nearby redwood groves, the company would phone Christine Rising at her vine-draped bungalow above the Eel…
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article on Maxxam/PL
dear BACHsters, This is an interesting piece that just appeared in the Eureka Reporter, an interview with the president of the Humboldt Watershed Council. It helps in understanding how we arrived at the unsustainable rate of harvest that PL is now complaining about mightily as being too low, and how Maxxam is raking off $100…
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Pls. comment: SPI proposes giant clearcut in old growth
Public COMMENTS NEEDED on huge old growth logging plan Sierra Pacific Industries (SPI), who amassed a gigantic land base from railroad grant lands in the late 1800s, making them the largest private landowner in the nation, and making its chair Red Emmerson one of the richest individuals in the U.S. is planning to log a…
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Eureka Reporter on Palco
Eureka Reporter on Palco 2/9/05 PALCO Faces Financial Trouble; Critic Says It’s PALCO’s Fault by Glenn Franco Simmons The Eureka Reporter The Pacific Lumber Co. (www.palco.com/) reported Wednesday that it is working with the North Coast Regional Water Quality Control Board, and separately with PALCO’s bank lender, in efforts to avoid a “financial liquidity shortfall.”…