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, …

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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, …

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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 …

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Join Greg King, as he presents on his deeply researched, amazing book  “GHOST FOREST: Racists, Radicals and Real Estate in the California Redwoods.” Online Forest Protection Forum: March 18 at 4 pm Register HERE to join.          How is it possible that humanity was ultimately able to protect only 80,000 acres, or 4 percent, or California’s original expanse of  2 million acres of coast redwood forest? The answer lies in a century-long determination by capitalists to not “preserve” but RESERVE as much ancient redwood as possible not for parks, but for industrial uses. The means to achieve such carte blanche in the woods have been cunning, usually illegal, and ongoing today. These …

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Members of the Coalition to Save Jackson State Forest made an agendized presentation to the CA Board of Forestry and Fire Protection in Sacramento for over an hour on December 6, 2023, which was followed by extensive public comment in support of a new vision for JDSF. Hi everyone,Our presentation to the Board of Forestry in Sacramento went well, we shared our vision for JDSF and put a lot of truth in the public record of the Board that oversees CalFire and JDSF. You can read a portion of the presentation in this written statement and watch video recordings of the Dec. 6th meeting (and Dec. …

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Dear friend of the forest,                                                                      We believe in the power and in the basic common sense of coalition work and alliances. We believe that working with other organizations and individuals brings together deeper, more diverse perspectives, and expands knowledge and skills that one organization simply could not muster. Diversity is strength. We also believe strongly in standing in solidarity with our indigenous allies. When faced with agency misconduct around sacred sites and the issue of tribal co-management of ancestral homelands, following the tribal lead is the route to arriving at wise decisions.The Bay Area Coalition for Headwaters (BACH) …

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The Asian Pacific Economic Cooperation Forum will bring 1200 corporate CEOs and 20 heads of state to OUR backyard. They will be negotiating trade deals that cover 60% of global energy systems and impact some of the most climate-vulnerable areas of the world. They need to see and hear resistance. The big APEC summit is coming up next month, Nov. 11 – 18 in San Francisco. There’s a broader No2APEC coalition that a number of Bay Area climate justice organizers have been an active part of, and they have been building out a parallel/overlapping Climate Justice contingent as part of that.  It’s …

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Action Alert: INCLUDE tribal and public voices & environmental protections in overhaul of Jackson Forest Management –> Tell CalFire: You Cannot Shut Us Out!” <– At the next meeting in September of the Jackson Advisory Group (JAG), the citizen body tasked with advising the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (CalFire) on the management of Jackson Demonstration State Forest (JDSF), CalFire will ask the JAG to approve the consultant job to conduct the revision of the JDSF management plan. We are at a crossroads with the Jackson Forest. Faced with the opportunity to transform this public land from a demonstration of industrial forestry to …

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