Message from a Tree Sitter

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This is a message from a tree-sitter in the Nanning Creek old growth redwood grove near Scotia on Pacific Lumber land. PL has been cutting on the plan since November and we have been opposing it since PL submitted it to CDF since it is prime and pristine (was) habitat for the endangered marbled murrelet. There is habitat left! Nanning was the focus of BACH's demonstration in December at Sen. Feinstein's office. We print the note below unedited.

HELLO FROM THE NANNING CREEK TREESIT

We Forest activists in the Maxxam/Pacific Lumber Co. Timber Harvest Plan (THP)1-05-097 HUM, "Bonanza," still protect our few precious acres of ancient redwood forest from the tide of debt-driven industrial logging. Since November 11, we have witnessed PL's steady cutting of what should be protected endangered species habitat.

Just last week, we hiked across the creek from our lofty perches and visited the Northern Spotted Owl nest that is surrounded by trees marked for cut. This last patch around the
spotted owl is the last part of the THP that PL has not yet cut. I doubt that the owls have even stuck around after the ten hour days of double-propeller helicopter yarding happening on the top of the ridge right above the them. The sound ricochets through the valley, and mixed
with chainsaws it is the sound of an ecosystem being crippled. But the owls aren't the only 'incidental takes' of this plan, there is an old-growth tree that we have just tied into our tree village for protection that has two nests of woven sticks and dead leaves that are two
feet in diameter. With your continued support and the perseverance of our
team out here, we hope that the builders of these nests will have a nice
home to return to for many generations.

On our hike to visit the owls, we also took a look at the new THP on Nanning's main stem. It has four units, and three of them are clear cuts. We can't believe that they are planning of clear cutting on those steep slopes. We literally had to crawl on our hands and feet to make it up. And after seeing the foot deep slabs of gooey mud on the hillside that already choke Nanning creek and its tributary's, we shake our heads at the thought of what kind of damage PL,s new THP's will do to the waterways. We did not find old-growth in this THP and it is not yet approved. You can check it on the web at the CDF website, the THP number
is 1-05-242.

Well, Ta-Ta for now. -from the Nanning creek treesit

February 9, 2006



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