Protecting our environmental resources and promoting social justice
“Sonoma Biomass Business Competition” gift to loggers….Sierra Club responds with facts and science…..“The problem with these policies is that they encourage the use of a dirty energy source to solve a problem that is over-played. The vast majority of dead trees in California forests pose no threat to people or infrastructure and, according to recent …
Loggers marketing plan is WRONG WRONG WRONG for the forests and watersheds. Climate change exasperated by wine industry clearcutting for vineyards, sucking the aquifers dry and allowing more and more building is creating a perfect storm for fires. “The Sonoma County Biomass Business Competition is looking to invest in local entrepreneurs with two awards of …
Loggers come up with slick logging plan…..against current science… Read More »
Thanks you to all who signed on to our petition including major organizations. You can see comments here: santarosapubliccomment@fire.ca.gov. “The Silver Estates land is already a mess of bio-fuels left behind from previous timber harvests. Even scarier, the land is dotted with homeless camps using illegal campfires. The landowner has failed to keep the land …
Felta Creek Watershed Update Sorry for another email but we have breaking news. Late yesterday CalFire DENIED Timber Harvest Plan 1-17-017 SON. This is certainly good news, coming at an intense time. We’re just not sure how good it is. The plan submitter, Mr. Bareilles has a few options. He can appeal the decision to the State Board of …
UPDATE: GOOD NEWS on Felta Creek Watershed Logging Read More »
As Siberia reaches 100 degrees, we continue to destroy our climate change options with logging. “The Trump administration is trying to hand over our southern California national forests to the logging industry, at taxpayer expense,” said Dr. Chad Hanson, forest ecologist with the John Muir Project, based in Big Bear City, California. “This destructive logging …
Destroying the commons for campaign donations….“This is a roadmap to national forest destruction, and it’s painful to read,” said Randi Spivak, director of the Center for Biological Diversity’s public lands program. “In the midst of the climate and extinction crises, Perdue offers a dystopian vision of expanding mining, fracking, logging and grazing in national forests. …
Ag secretary orders environmental rollbacks for Forest Service Read More »