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 River. After finding someone to care for her horses, dogs, cats and pot-bellied pig, Rising, 51, would pack her clothes and head down the dirt road toward a Eureka hotel about an hour’s drive away. Then for days or weeks, she could escape the beat …

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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 million a year in profits for the past 20 years while keeping PL fully in debt and on the verge of bankruptcy in order to pressure regulatory agencies. http://www.eurekareporter.com/Stories/fp-02170507.htm One-on-one with Mark Lovelace by Glenn Franco Simmons The Eureka Reporter (Editor?s note: In last week?s …

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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 large chunk of old growth forest on our north coast. Known for their rapacious practices in the Sierras, SPI now has considerable holdings in Humboldt county, including a parcel on Davis Creek near Petrolia in southern Humboldt, previously (publicly) owned by the Bureau of Land …

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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.” “At PALCO, virtually all revenue comes from sales of lumber and other products produced from timber owned by our subsidiary, Scotia Pacific Co. LLC,” said Robert Manne, PALCO president and CEO. “This is why the North Coast Regional Water Quality Control Board should sign off …

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Maxxam/Pacific Lumber Tries to Extort More Logging Plans at Top Levels of State Government Pacific Lumber is once again holding ancient redwoods hostage and threatening dire consequences for the community and for protected ancient trees if they don’t get what they want. We’ve seen this before. During Headwaters deal negotiations in 1998-1999, their extortion efforts were for money (half a billion tax-payer bucks) and concessions on their Habitat Conservation Plan (HCP)-this time they are extorting suspension of regulatory limits on their logging. Maxxam CEO Charles Hurwitz himself met in private with top aides of the Gov. Schwarzenegger on January 11 …

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Stop Timber Industry Greenwashing Comments Needed by February 1 The timber industry’s American Forest & Paper Association (AF&PA) is pressuring the Green Building Council to promote wood from forests logged under the AF&PA’s “business as usual” Sustainable Forestry Initiative (SFI) standards. The American Forest & Paper Association (AF&PA) is the most powerful timber trade association in the world. Its member companies include the largest loggers in the United States and Canada and the largest wholesale distributors of global wood products. The construction and renovation of commercial and residential buildings in the U.S. consumes vast quantities of wood often from endangered …

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Wednesday morning, as a warm day in dawned in the Rattlesnake Creek forest that feeds the headwaters of the Mattole River, two peaceful and dedicated tree-sitters (who are teachers at an environmental school) were visited by Eric Schatz, Maxxam/Pacific Lumber’s tree-sitter “extractor.” The tree sits started in the area last summer to save the steep old growth Douglas Fir grove and bring attention to the rapid devastation in the Mattole watershed caused by Maxxam/Pacific Lumber’s clearcutting, helicopter logging, road building, herbicide poisoning, and cutting of old growth trees. Pacific Lumber (PL), local front for Texas-based Maxxam Corporation, now outsources ALL …

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Logging Plan Borders Humboldt Redwoods State Park, Highway 101 Humboldt County, CA – Signs dotting Northern California’s stretch of Highway 101 near the town of Red Crest declare the scenic passage the “Redwood Highway”, named for ancient redwoods that tower over its flanks. Passing through Humboldt Redwoods State Park, which contains one of the largest remaining contiguous stands of ancient coast redwoods in the world, lengths of the famous thoroughfare are just a stone’s throw to ancient forest owned by Maxxam/Pacific Lumber -redwoods they plan to cut down in the coming weeks. The 65-acre Timber Harvest Plan (1-04-220 HUM) is …

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>< 2nd annual Silent Auction and Celebration of Forest Activism >< Enjoy gourmet refreshments, wonderful music and celebrate the activist spirit while placing bids on GREAT STUFF like **hot springs retreats **handmade tree quilt **fleece and down gear **Trader Joe's gift bag **dinners at your favorite Bay Area restaurants **bikrim yoga classes **massage and chiropractic treatments **art **and lots more! many gift items...terrific deals. (list on the BACH website soon...) Music by special guest Joanne Rand, the Mercury Dimes, and Robert Temple only $5 admission SUNDAY, DECEMBER 5 4 - 8 pm at the Unitarian Fellowship Hall, 1924 Cedar at ...

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Good news for a change… This is big news, and indicates the importance of the SYP case, and its resolution, but as Cynthia Elkins points out, though there is still road to travel on this one. The big tragedy of this case, as well, is the fact that already approved timber harvest plans were not constrained. posted here is the story from the Eureka Times Standard, 9/30/04 PL, state ordered to pay $6 million in EPIC case By John Driscoll The Times-Standard In one of the heaviest awards in a case of its kind, Pacific Lumber Co. and the state …

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