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Police and PL/Maxxam security invade freestate....
Posted: Thu, Apr 5, 2001 1:51pm PDT
NEW TREESIT AND BANNER AT RATTLESNAKE CREEK.
100 DAYS OF BLOCKADE AND NO LOGGING IN THE MATTOLE...
Posted: Sun, Mar 11, 2001 7:43pm PST
This update is for Pacific Lumber/Maxxam logging protests, rallies and Direct Actions in Humboldt County....
Posted: Wed, Feb 21, 2001 2:47pm PST
Non-violent peaceful activist continue to resist destructive logging in the Mattole....
Posted: Thu, Feb 8, 2001 5:38pm PST
Early this morning, 02/07/01, Mattole residents and the Mattole Forest Defenders confronted Maxxam/Pacific Lumber logging crews who arrived to continue clearcutting old-growth Douglas Fir in Timber Harvest Plan (THP) 1-00-309 on Rattlesnake Creek within the Mattole watershed....
Posted: Thu, Feb 8, 2001 12:18am PST
Blockade continues to hold at record 9 weeks....
Posted: Mon, Jan 29, 2001 6:42pm PST
An event to call attention to the situation on Rainbow Ridge in the Mattole Valley will take place at the California Department of Forestry (CDF) Offices in Fortuna on Thursday, January 25th....
Posted: Wed, Jan 24, 2001 1:03pm PST
Pacific Lumber Security know as the Humboldt Sheriffs Department Arrested 5 forest defenders today in the Mattole....
Posted: Tue, Nov 28, 2000 10:29pm PST
Maxxam/Pacific Lumber (PL) is trying to begin clearcutting the second largest intact stand of lowland old-growth Douglas Fir in California - Rainbow Ridge in the Mattole River watershed of the Lost Coast....
Posted: Tue, Nov 21, 2000 9:23pm PST
Last Friday, we heard the news we've been anticipating for weeks. A truckload of Columbia Helicopter loggers showed up to clearcut one of the seven timber harvest plans (THP) on Rainbow Ridge,1-99-475....
Posted: Fri, Nov 17, 2000 9:41am PST
To follow up on our October 27, 2000 letter we are reiterating that Maxxam/Pacific Lumber Company must surely be aware that operating on such controversial plans as THP 1-99-475 is more than likely to result in public protest including non-violent direct action on site....
Posted: Fri, Nov 10, 2000 3:45pm PST
We as friends and residents of the Mattole River Watershed, calling ourselves the Mattole Forest Defenders, set out today to try to non-violently stop the logging of the controversial Timber Harvest Plan 99-475 (THP 475)....
Posted: Fri, Nov 10, 2000 3:37pm PST
This morning we heard the news we've been anticipating for weeks. A truckload of loggers showed up to one of the seven timber harvest plans (THP) on Rainbow Ridge, 99-475....
Posted: Fri, Nov 10, 2000 3:29pm PST
Judge Cissna ruled today against issuing a Preliminary Injunction to halt logging on THP 475 - (the 53-acre timber harvest plan on Rainbow Ridge to clearcut ancient forests on steep slopes above Allwardt Creek)....
Posted: Wed, Oct 25, 2000 10:12pm PDT
On Friday morning, September 15, the California Department of Forestry (CDF) is set to approve the second of seven controversial logging plans in
the ancient Douglas fir forests of Rainbow Ridge in the Mattole watershed of Humboldt County. This plan - 1-00-218HUM - allows Maxxam/Pacific Lumber (PL) to remove logs from the Sulphur Creek drainage cut illegally in 1998....
Posted: Fri, Sep 15, 2000 12:45am PDT