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UCSC to log 150 acres of trees for expansion...?
The following email from the Coalition for Limiting University Expansion (CLUE) shows that UCSC is preparing to cut down approximately 150 acres of trees on upper-campus to make room for all the new buildings that are part of the much-criticized expansion plan. This would be one of the most serious logging operations on UCSC's campus in decades. While almost everyone is against it, almost no one besides CLUE is organizing to stop it.
In 1991, approximately 100 redwood trees were logged on a 14-acre campus forest called Elfland. 42 people (including a KSBW reporter and a legal observer) were arrested by dozens of UC Police from Berkeley and Davis as they protesting UCSC and Big Creek's destruction of the sacred Ohlone ground (including a shell site). Colleges 9 and 10 now stand where Elfland was. If 100 redwood trees were logged in 14 acres, 150 acres of logging could mean well over 1,000 trees - mostly 2nd generation redwoods and mixed evergreens.
Once these trees are logged, there's no going back on UCSC's Expansion. For all those that care about preserving the alternative nature of UCSC, ensuring that students get quality education, and protecting the City of Santa Cruz, this logging cannot happen.
Note: It will likely happen during the summer, winter break or spring break - the school has long since learned to stop cutting down trees when students are around to protest.
In 1991, approximately 100 redwood trees were logged on a 14-acre campus forest called Elfland. 42 people (including a KSBW reporter and a legal observer) were arrested by dozens of UC Police from Berkeley and Davis as they protesting UCSC and Big Creek's destruction of the sacred Ohlone ground (including a shell site). Colleges 9 and 10 now stand where Elfland was. If 100 redwood trees were logged in 14 acres, 150 acres of logging could mean well over 1,000 trees - mostly 2nd generation redwoods and mixed evergreens.
Once these trees are logged, there's no going back on UCSC's Expansion. For all those that care about preserving the alternative nature of UCSC, ensuring that students get quality education, and protecting the City of Santa Cruz, this logging cannot happen.
Note: It will likely happen during the summer, winter break or spring break - the school has long since learned to stop cutting down trees when students are around to protest.
You can read more about the Elfland protests here:
http://geocities.com/scpeopleshistory/files/elfland-pressrelease.html
with a few pics here:
http://juteux.net/rory/elfland.html
More on the LRDP here:
http://ventana.sierraclub.org/conservation/local/ucsc_unsustain.shtml
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From: SantaCruzCLUE.org
Sent: Thursday, June 07, 2007 1:13 PM
To: info [at] santacruzclue.org
Subject: Public Urged to Attend Meeting to Comment on UCSC's Timber Harvest Plan
Dear CLUE supporters,
We need your help to come to a hearing about UCSC's plan to begin logging as explained below in a press release that just went out.
So please come to the hearing if you can and spread the word to anyone who can be persuaded to attend. We need as many people as possible to pressure CalFire/CDF to not allow UCSC to begin logging until we have our day in court.
The hearing is this coming Wednesday, June 13, 6:30pm at the Santa Cruz Board of Supervisors chambers.
Please forward this email to others and/or write a letter to the Sentinel asap.
Thanks,
Don Stevens
NEWS FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: June 7, 2007
For more information contact: Don Stevens, 425-4721
Or email: info [at] santacruzclue.org
Public Urged to Attend Meeting to Comment on UCSC's Timber Harvest Plan
The California Dept. of Forestry and Fire Protection (CalFire) should holdoff on approving the University of California-Santa Cruz's logging any trees related to its Long Range Development Plan until the legality of the plan's Environmental Impact Report is established in court, says Don Stevens, co-founder of CLUE, the Coalition for Limiting University Expansion.
The validity of the LRDP EIR is the subject of several court suits brought by the City and County of Santa Cruz, CLUE and other community groups. The first court hearing on the suits was scheduled to be heard in Santa Cruz Superior Court on June 11, but has been postponed until at least mid-July.
UCSC has submitted a Timber Harvest Plan to CDF to clear land for the first projects under the LRDP, a huge Biomedical building and a tower to provide building cooling. UCSC has claimed it has no obligation to provide an EIR for the projects, as required by the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA), asserting they are covered by the LRDP EIR. CLUE's position is that no work should be done on any of the projects under the LRDP until the legality of the EIR is established in court. "Once they are cut down, these trees can't be replaced," says CLUE's Don Stevens. "If the EIR is decertified there is no legal basis for the timber harvest."
UCSC eventually plans to log about 150 acres of trees for its expansion projects.
CalFire will hold a public meeting on the UCSC Timber Harvest Plan at 6:30 p.m.on Wed., June 13, 2007 in the Santa Cruz Board of Supervisors chambers. People concerned about the issue should attend.
http://geocities.com/scpeopleshistory/files/elfland-pressrelease.html
with a few pics here:
http://juteux.net/rory/elfland.html
More on the LRDP here:
http://ventana.sierraclub.org/conservation/local/ucsc_unsustain.shtml
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From: SantaCruzCLUE.org
Sent: Thursday, June 07, 2007 1:13 PM
To: info [at] santacruzclue.org
Subject: Public Urged to Attend Meeting to Comment on UCSC's Timber Harvest Plan
Dear CLUE supporters,
We need your help to come to a hearing about UCSC's plan to begin logging as explained below in a press release that just went out.
So please come to the hearing if you can and spread the word to anyone who can be persuaded to attend. We need as many people as possible to pressure CalFire/CDF to not allow UCSC to begin logging until we have our day in court.
The hearing is this coming Wednesday, June 13, 6:30pm at the Santa Cruz Board of Supervisors chambers.
Please forward this email to others and/or write a letter to the Sentinel asap.
Thanks,
Don Stevens
NEWS FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: June 7, 2007
For more information contact: Don Stevens, 425-4721
Or email: info [at] santacruzclue.org
Public Urged to Attend Meeting to Comment on UCSC's Timber Harvest Plan
The California Dept. of Forestry and Fire Protection (CalFire) should holdoff on approving the University of California-Santa Cruz's logging any trees related to its Long Range Development Plan until the legality of the plan's Environmental Impact Report is established in court, says Don Stevens, co-founder of CLUE, the Coalition for Limiting University Expansion.
The validity of the LRDP EIR is the subject of several court suits brought by the City and County of Santa Cruz, CLUE and other community groups. The first court hearing on the suits was scheduled to be heard in Santa Cruz Superior Court on June 11, but has been postponed until at least mid-July.
UCSC has submitted a Timber Harvest Plan to CDF to clear land for the first projects under the LRDP, a huge Biomedical building and a tower to provide building cooling. UCSC has claimed it has no obligation to provide an EIR for the projects, as required by the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA), asserting they are covered by the LRDP EIR. CLUE's position is that no work should be done on any of the projects under the LRDP until the legality of the EIR is established in court. "Once they are cut down, these trees can't be replaced," says CLUE's Don Stevens. "If the EIR is decertified there is no legal basis for the timber harvest."
UCSC eventually plans to log about 150 acres of trees for its expansion projects.
CalFire will hold a public meeting on the UCSC Timber Harvest Plan at 6:30 p.m.on Wed., June 13, 2007 in the Santa Cruz Board of Supervisors chambers. People concerned about the issue should attend.
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The fact is that it is six trees not hundreds or even thousands
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