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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tell calfire !no! to new jackson logging plan
April 24, 2025 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…
update: Jackson Forest
March 31, 2025 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. Her intuitive sense of politics, deep wisdom and commitment, and sense of humor are sorely missed in our forest campaign,…
Forest Defense is Climate defense
December 12, 2025 Wow, has our political context changed! I’m jogging my memory…what are the stages again?Something like…first you scream; then you rage; then you march; then you block the doors; then you organize, organize, organize! New cabinet nominations include a fracking company CEO, along with others clearly more interested in “energy dominance” than sustainability. They include a Microsoft exec as Interior Dept. head–as we mourn the departure of Deb Haaland, the first indigenous Interior Secretary. It’s almost like James Watt has returned from the dead (if you’re old enough to remember), and we survived that. And the earth survived…
Raise Your Voice! Jackson Forest meetings are now!
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 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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