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| Maxxam/Pacific Lumber in Court Tomorrow Seeking For Immediate Release - Contact: Karen Pickett 510-548-3113; Remedy in the tree: 707-498-0601 A request filed by Pacific Lumber (PL) for a Temporary Restraining Order (TRO) against tree-sitters in the Freshwater watershed will be heard in Humboldt Superior Court, Dept. 1, 825 Fifth St., Eureka at 10:30 am, Friday March 7, 2003. PL climbers delivered papers related to a SLAPP suit (Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation) that PL has filed against tree-sitters, most of whom are identified as "Does 11-24" on Wednesday. Some of the papers were nailed to trees with platforms hung high above in the branches, and at least one tree-sitter cooperated by lowering her rucksack to receive the papers. One of PL's climbers failed in his attempt to climb up to the platforms. The forest defenders were told in the papers to appear in court Friday to show why they shouldn't be restrained from Eighteen trees, believed by PL to have sitters in them, were identified in the papers by latitude and longitude, clearing up the mystery of one week ago when PL security showed up to spray-paint numbers and names onto trunks of trees they believed to be "occupied". The security guards were quite combative, and one opined that he could hit the people in the trees with his rifle. 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. Residents who have been suffering through floods, debris torrents and sedimentation of streams point to those events as evidence the watershed is much too severely impacted to bear that harvest rate. 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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