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We have sent you several alerts about the Bonanza logging plan in the NANNING CREEK GROVE starting in the early summer when many of us commented on this plan in ANCIENT REDWOOD FOREST and home to the threatened marbled murrelet.

Things have been heating up since logging started on Nov. 11, and GIANT TREES ARE FALLING nearly every day. This is a tragedy, and as we await a decision from the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, resistance is growing. There are TREE-SITS in the grove, and TWO WOMEN LOCKED to a truck and the gate on the access road early Monday morning. No logging took place on Monday!

We exerpt from the press release we sent out yesterday, and invite you to come and STRATEGIZE FOR ACTION at the BACH office WEDNESDAY Nov. 11 at 7 pm. Here in the Bay Area, we are doing media, organizing support for activists in Humboldt and PLANNING A SHOW RESISTANCE HERE IN THE BAY AREA but we need your involvement to do that! Several of us have just returned from Humboldt county, so we invite you to come see video footage of the tree sits and plan an event!

The BACH office is at the rear of the Ecology Center building at 2530 San Pablo Ave., Berkeley.

Below is news of Monday's action. We need to keep it up! Please come Wednesday!
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In the pre-dawn hours today, two women put their bodies on the line for the ancient redwoods by locking themselves to gates and trucks entering the access roads leading to a controversial logging plan in Nanning Creek watershed outside Scotia, California in Humboldt County. The women and supporters unfurled banners reading " Stop Maxxamum Greed/ Save Nanning Grove", "Save Nanning Creek Ancient Forest," "Extinction is Forever", and "Save Scotia/ Kick Maxxam Out".

Maxxam/Pacific Lumber (PL) subsidiary ScoPac began logging operations in the controversial plan on Nov.11, triggering protests that have included tree-sits high in the branches of the giant trees that measure more than 15 feet in diameter, vigils at the entrance to access roads, and a demonstration at Pacific Lumber offices in the company town of Scotia. The Timber Harvest Plan (THP) contains some of the highest quality murrelet habitat left on PL land, long seen by scientists as a crucial habitat area for the endangered bird. The plan was cynically named "Bonanza" by PL, and it is no coincidence that it is one of Maxxam/PL's last shot at a sizable chunk of old growth before a possible bankruptcy reorganization forces a change in ownership of the timberlands.

THP # 1-05-097, at 249 acres, is in the Dean Creek and Nanning Creek watersheds and contains habitat for other sensitive and threatened species, including the northern spotted owl, and is upstream from coho and chinook salmon spawning habitat.

Legal challenges to permits issued by US Fish and Wildlife Service, the federal agency charged with protecting threatened and endangered species, have thus far failed to halt logging in the rare habitat crucial to the endangered bird. At last report, logging was stopped by the blockade.



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