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Don’t commodify Mother Earth and her forests!
Calling tree-huggers, other-species defenders and all manner of biocentrists and forests activists to Rise Up together as linked affinity groups for the climate convergence and actions in the Bay Area Sept. 8 – 14! I’m sure you are aware that a great many individuals, organizations and affinity groups are rising up to say NO…
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Forest Defenders’ Blockade in Mattole Raided by Paramilitary-style Security
Two people have locked themselves to “Monument Gate” – five miles up the mountain from the town of Rio Dell – to prevent Humboldt Redwood Company (HRC) from gaining access to the Rainbow Ridge area of the Mattole River watershed, where HRC has two active Timber Harvest Plans to log in un-entered Douglas fir forests. On Sunday, July 22, HRC,…
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New tripod blockade in Mattole, new suit in Gualala forest
New Blockade Rises to Protect Old Growth in the Mattole! Logging season has returned to the north coast, and Humboldt Redwood Co. (HRC) remains adamant that they will cut in the previously unlogged forest in the Mattole River watershed. The blockaders, however are even more determined that they will not. After an effective and successful action…
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Join us for Judi Bari Day May 24, 11:30 am in Oakland
May 24 is Judi Bari Day* **Please share with your networks** Please join us to COMMEMORATE the anniversary of the 1990 Oakland bombing of Judi Bari and Darryl Cherney CELEBRATE and STRENGTHEN Revolutionary resistance and movement solidarity May 24, 2018 is the 28th anniversary of the attack on Earth First! and Judi and Darryl by car…
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Mattole Forest Action Training May 24 – 27
Mattole Forest Defense Training Camp May 24-27 We just got this call out from the forest defenders in the Mattole: Come hang out, learn awesome skills, and get plugged in with your local forest defense campaigns! We will be gathering from the 24th until the 27th of May for an Action Training Camp in the…
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North Coast Forest Update–Mattole, Gualala and more
Old Trees, River Habitat and Action: They Go Together No New Road for the Mattole! Forest Defenders on Alert for Logging Season Our last update to you concerning the magnificent old forests in the Mattole watershed [http://headwaterspreserve.org/2018/02/comments-needed-on-mattole-forest-road-building-offshore-oil-and-wild-smith-river/] addressed Humboldt Redwood Co. (HRC)’s new logging road proposal, which seemed to have no rational foundation for construction, except…
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Court hearings on Richardson Grove and new alliance
Rumblings about Richardson Grove Redwoods from Caltrans Also: New Indigenous-Enviro Alliance Sees Success We were alerted by our colleagues on the North Coast that, after a long respite of no activity on the Richardson Grove front, there are things happening behind the scenes, in the courts, and in the County Supervisor’s chambers. Most of you…
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Comments Needed on Mattole Forest road building, Offshore Oil and wild Smith River!
Deep in the fog-shrouded coastal forests in the hills above the ocean in southern Humboldt county, a new logging road is planned that has no good reason to be built. This area of old forest, mostly Doug Fir and other species in the Mattole River watershed, is one of the few areas outsides of the…
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Action Updates: Mattole Forest Blockade and Richardson Grove!
UPDATE ON MATTOLE FOREST DEFENSE! An area in the Mattole River watershed on Northern California’s forested coast is called the “Lost Coast”, because of its relative remoteness from major highways and population centers. There lies mature Douglas Fir forest, unmolested by logging—left behind even by the rapacious Maxxam Pacific Lumber, in favor of more accessible…
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More on Richardson Grove Redux: Trucks vs. Redwoods
Caltrans has been adamant ever since they lost their Richardson Grove Highway Realignment case* in Federal Court in 2014 and were chastised by the judge for their false data and sloppy analysis. The agency was determined to resurrect their plan to accommodate oversized STAA big rig trucks on Hwy. 101 through the heart of redwood…