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PL Pulls Allen Creek THP
Pacific Lumber has pulled their logging plan (THP 1-01-352 HUM) for Allen Creek, one of 13 Marbled Murrelet Conservation Areas put off limits to logging for a period of 50 years in agreements contained in the Headwaters Deal.
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February 6, 2002 Alert
from the Bay Area Coalition for Headwaters
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GOOD NEWS FOR A CHANGE!
PACIFIC LUMBER YANKS PROPOSAL TO LOG IN ALLEN CREEK.
Pacific Lumber has pulled their logging plan (THP 1-01-352 HUM) for Allen Creek, one of 13 Marbled Murrelet Conservation Areas put off limits to logging for a period of 50 years in agreements contained in the Headwaters Deal. Flying in the face of the 50-year prohibition, PL was attempting to use their own creative interpretations of the Deal's Habitat Conservation Plan to claim the logging could be
allowed.
The contract between Pacific Lumber and the state of California for the release of money authorized as part of the Headwaters Deal clearly prohibits any kind of logging within the 13 Marbled Murrelet Conservation Areas for the 50 year period. PL even put forth the preposterous claim that their logging operation would "improve" Murrelet habitat.
The public and environmental organizations responded with a flood of calls and letters to agencies, particularly the California Dept of
Forestry, responsible for review of all Timber Harvest Plans. In fact, last night, the Berkeley City Council passed a strongly worded resolution opposing the proposed logging and committed to send letters about the plan to CDF and the Governor. PL's director of government relations offered that the withdrawal of the plan comes "as much from the political and emotional (sic) response to the plan as it does from scientific concerns." However, the scientists were not with Pacific Lumber on this one, except for their own hired guns.
Some of those who were instrumental in crafting the Headwaters Deal were also dismayed by the proposal. Sen. Byron Sher had communicated
with the CDF, urging them to deny the plan, and the state Fish and Game and federal Fish and Wildlife Service had weighed in with their
concerns.
Thank you for all you letters! It makes a difference!
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Bay Area Coalition for Headwaters
2530 San Pablo Ave.
Berkeley, California 94702
(510) 548-3113
bach [at] igc.org
http://www.HeadwatersPreserve.org
February 6, 2002 Alert
from the Bay Area Coalition for Headwaters
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
GOOD NEWS FOR A CHANGE!
PACIFIC LUMBER YANKS PROPOSAL TO LOG IN ALLEN CREEK.
Pacific Lumber has pulled their logging plan (THP 1-01-352 HUM) for Allen Creek, one of 13 Marbled Murrelet Conservation Areas put off limits to logging for a period of 50 years in agreements contained in the Headwaters Deal. Flying in the face of the 50-year prohibition, PL was attempting to use their own creative interpretations of the Deal's Habitat Conservation Plan to claim the logging could be
allowed.
The contract between Pacific Lumber and the state of California for the release of money authorized as part of the Headwaters Deal clearly prohibits any kind of logging within the 13 Marbled Murrelet Conservation Areas for the 50 year period. PL even put forth the preposterous claim that their logging operation would "improve" Murrelet habitat.
The public and environmental organizations responded with a flood of calls and letters to agencies, particularly the California Dept of
Forestry, responsible for review of all Timber Harvest Plans. In fact, last night, the Berkeley City Council passed a strongly worded resolution opposing the proposed logging and committed to send letters about the plan to CDF and the Governor. PL's director of government relations offered that the withdrawal of the plan comes "as much from the political and emotional (sic) response to the plan as it does from scientific concerns." However, the scientists were not with Pacific Lumber on this one, except for their own hired guns.
Some of those who were instrumental in crafting the Headwaters Deal were also dismayed by the proposal. Sen. Byron Sher had communicated
with the CDF, urging them to deny the plan, and the state Fish and Game and federal Fish and Wildlife Service had weighed in with their
concerns.
Thank you for all you letters! It makes a difference!
--
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Bay Area Coalition for Headwaters
2530 San Pablo Ave.
Berkeley, California 94702
(510) 548-3113
bach [at] igc.org
http://www.HeadwatersPreserve.org
For more information:
http://headwaterspreserve.org
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RESOLUTION OPPOSING THE TIMBER HARVEST PLAN RECENTLY SUBMITTED BY MAXXAM CORPORATION
WEREAS, Over 97% of the old growth redwood ecosystem in Northenr Califonia has been decimated, much of it lost due to industrial corporate logging, most of which has not been sustainable economic terms or ecological terms, and
WHEREAS, The redwood ecosystem is unique to California, a geographical limitation that makes this ecosystem all the more valuable and precious, and
WHEREAS, our forest resources are a public resource which enables a biodiversity of species, water which is cleaned by filtration through forest soils, critical oxygen supplies that combat global warming, and contribute greatly to the environmental health of our planet, and
WHEREAS, The 1999 Headwaters deal and legal agreements outlined various components agreed to by the federal Department of the Interior, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the State Dept. of Fish and Game, the California Legislature, and Maxxam/Pacific Lumber Corporation, and
WHEREAS, Pacific Lumber has timber-cut most of its holding through accelerated logging, leaving residents in Humboldt county without quality drinking water, with a moonscape landscape over vast areas, with massive landslides, and with a depleted economy;
WHEREAS, As part of the Habitat Conservation Plan (HCP) agreement and State Contract the :Marbled Murrelet Conservation Area, and
WHEREAS, Pacific Lumber recently filed Timber Harvest Plan(THP) 1-01-352 covering 93 acres proposing to conduct 76 acres of commercial thinning logging for the 50 year life of the contract, and
WHEREAS, The subject 76 acres lie within the specified to be off-limits under section 3.1(f) of the State Contract which clearly prohibits logging activities of any kind within the designated MMCA's for 50 years.
THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the Berkeley City Council finds that Maxxam/Pacific Lumber's activities represent harmful and unsustainable business practices and urges the enforcement of the HCP and State Contract and the denial of their proposed logging in THP 352, Allen Creek Grove.
Be IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the council urges Governor Davis and the California Department of Forestry to take whatever action necessary to prevent the potential devastating damage critical habitat that would be done by further logging of our heritage Redwood Forests, including Allen Creek Marble Murrelet Conservation Area.
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