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Forest Defenders Blockade Road to Rainbow Ridge (photo) 
Forest defender in position to lock down at junked car blockade along logging road to Rainbow Ridge in the Mattole watershed. See associated print article for details....
Posted: Sun Dec 17, 2000 5:16PM
5 Arrested in Mattole Pacific Lumber Security know as the Humboldt Sheriffs Department Arrested 5 forest defenders today in the Mattole....
Posted: Tue Nov 28, 2000 10:29PM
Mattole Update - 11/21 Picture 
A image from the Monday(11/20) early morning blockade organized by the residents of the Mattole River Valley....
Posted: Tue Nov 21, 2000 9:27PM
Mattole Update - 11/21 article 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
Maxxam logging in the Mattole Update - 11-17-2000 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
Letter to Maxxam/Pacific Lumber 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
Statement from the Mattole Forest Defenders within the boundaries of THP 99-475 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
MATTOLE LOGGING BEGINS!!! 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
Ruling on Rainbow Ridge THP 475 - Logging could begin... 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
CDF to Approve Logging Plans in Mattole 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