Recent actions in defense of the forest have included litigation and an early morning road blockade on July 8 on the Long Ridge/Taylor Peak area, where two logging plans are located. One person was arrested. The Taylor peak logging plan, under court challenge but with no injunction, contains old growth trees, like a number of other approved plans in the Mattole.

Meanwhile in Freshwater, Remedy, a tree-sitter in one of the old growth redwoods has been up for over one hundred days, and is holding strong. Wren, who sits in Everstine, has been up for over thirty days. PL owns over 3/4 of this watershed that has already been subject to flooding and loss of fish habitat.

On Gypsy mountain, the "Aradia" tree-sit has been going on since January, just up the ridge from where David "Gypsy" Chain was killed on September 17, 1998. Within weeks of the out-of-court settlement of the lawsuit filed by Gypsy's family last year, a new timber harvest plan was marked on Gypsy Mountain. "Aradia" is one of the last legally cuttable old growth redwoods left on Gypsy Mountain, and could be preserved as a living memorial to Gypsy.