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OPINION: PRMD approves Winery Use-Permits that Urbanize Rural Areas

We agree that PRMD bends over backwards to mitigate anything the wine industry wants. We believe a moratorium on all winery/events permits until a countywide cumulative impact report is completed should be enacted. As for the “studies” used to mitigate the impacts of the industry, we have seen Bella winery permit approved for traffic impacts after …

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Zinke’s monuments ‘review’ is land seizure in disguise. Still time to comment on national monument review, link below.

There is time left to comment on the Trump administration’s attempt to take precious national monuments out of protection which will allow mining, logging, water mining, and basically unfettered resource mining on these fragile and special lands. California has 5 such monuments in review and on the chopping block including Lake Berryesa.   The public comment period …

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Commentary of aggressive logging plan on Felta Creek…..worth reposting!

http://www.sonomawest.com/the_healdsburg_tribune/opinion/editorials/commentary-critical-wild-coho-salmon-watershed-threatened-by-aggressive-logging/article_e8286fa0-5c49-11e7-9835-fbf2a70423fe.html by Dan Imoff As wild Coho salmon have disappeared in nearly every tributary of the Russian River, Felta Creek remains a rare exception. Even in the low fish years of 2006 and 2008, endangered wild Coho survived in the shady pools of this boulder strewn west county stream. This spring, UC Sea Grant biologists …

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Action Alert: Timber harvest plan in fragile area of Sonoma County.

The deadline for action was June 26th. We will keep you posted for future actions. In the meantime, your supervisors need to know we will not allow bad projects like this to continue to devastate our watersheds and environment. Many thanks to all who participated. Robert Swan: “The Greatest Threat to Our Planet Is the Belief …

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Victory for the Forest UPDATE: Judge rules on Disputed Gualala River logging plan, Dogwood

MEDIA RELEASE >> Date: June 29, 2017 >> >> After halting logging in the environmentally sensitive mature floodplain >> redwood forest of the lower Gualala River, Judge René Chouteau of Sonoma >> County Superior Court awarded $162,000 in attorney’s fees to the >> successful parties in environmental litigation over CAL FIRE’s approval of >> the …

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Threat to California’s forests – Working Forest Management Plans

  STEALTH ATTACK on California Forests. STOP AB904 AB 904 authorized a new form of Timber Harvest Plan – Working Forest  Management Plan (WFMP),  The legislation would permit large long term  timber harvest plans  “Working Forest Management Plans” (up to15,000  acres)  – where the plans would  forever (in perpetuity – one could  question anything  land …

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