Stop Clear Cutting the Sierra Nevada

For Immediate Release

Sacramento Valley Chapter of the California Native Plant Society
April Chapter Meeting Presentation
Wed., 4/8 7:00 p.m.
Shepard Garden & Arts Center in McKinley Park
3330 McKinley Blvd., Sacramento CA 95816
Meeting is free and open to the public.
Contact:
Jennifer Stock, President (916) 443-3484

Clearcut Nation

The watersheds of the Sierra Nevada provide most of California’s drinking water. Every time you turn on a faucet, you are connected to those watersheds. Clear cutting strips the land bare by removing all native vegetation, with damaging consequences to water sources. In addition, herbicides applied after clearcutting to stop natural regeneration destroy any semblance of a natural, diverse forest. Although the U.S. Forest Service has halted clearcutting in national forests, on vast private forestlands it is still the primary timber harvesting method.

Marily Woodhouse, Sierra Club organizer for the Campaign to Stop Clearcutting California will present the case against clearcutting at the April chapter meeting of the Sacramento Valley chapter of the California Native Plant Society. As a resident of a town near Mt. Lassen, Ms. Woodhouse has seen the devastation of clearcutting first-hand, as thousands of acres of forest have been destroyed near her home. Sierra Pacific Industries (SPI) is in the process of clearcutting the majority of its 1.7 million acres throughout the Sierra, turning many miles of forests into sterile tree plantations.

Come and learn about how clearcutting is damaging our forests and watersheds, and how to work to stop it.

The mission of the California Native Plant Society is to increase understanding and appreciation of California’s native plants and to conserve them and their natural habitats through science, education, advocacy, horticulture and land stewardship.

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