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| Maxxam/Pacific Lumber Granted Temporary Restraining Order Against Tree-Sitters For Immediate Release - Contact: Karen Pickett 510-548-3113; Remedy in the tree: 707-498-0601 A Preliminary Injunction and Temporary Restraining Order (TRO) requested by Pacific Lumber (PL) against tree-sitters was granted this morning. PL went before in Humboldt Superior Court by Judge Dale Reinholtsen last Friday seeking an ruling ordering tree-sitters to vacate their perches and remove their gear within 24 hours, and to further restrain forest defenders from Presumably, Pacific Lumber would take action when that 24 hours is up. There at least 20 activists sitting in trees in the Freshwater watershed, in a last ditch effort to bring attention to continued logging in the area that long-time residents, scientists and environmental groups alike contend is devastating the watershed. Floods, debris torrents and extreme sedimentation of streams has become the norm, as steep unstable slopes are denuded. The logging prescriptions in Freshwater are also setting the precedent for other watersheds subject to PL logging in their 211,000 acre ownership. The TRO is based on a SLAPP suit (Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation) that PL filed against tree-sitters last August. PL security served papers on additional activists on Wednesday March 5, in some cases nailing the legal papers nailed to trees with platforms hung high above in the branches. The Freshwater watershed has been embroiled in controversy over the rate of cut by Pacific Lumber, whose Habitat Conservation Plan/Sustained Yield Plan (part of the Headwaters deal) allows 500 acres to be clear-cut per year. After hearing from a scientific panel confirming a direct correlation between rate of harvest and damages to water quality values, and hearing from scores of residents with pictures of flooded roads and homes, the Regional Water Quality Board nonetheless gave PL the green light last Thursday to log in 3 contested Timber Harvest Plans by granting them a waiver of sediment discharge permits. ###  << Back to Press Release Archive | Latest Press Release | Newsroom | | 
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