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Tree-Sits, Blockades and Forestry Science vs. California “Demonstrating” Profitability?
49,000 acres of recovering vibrant forest with large redwoods and other species, south of Fort Bragg on the Mendocino coast were purchased by the state of California in 1949, after having been logged in previous years. Its mission was to serve the purpose of the state operating a “Demonstration Forest” to practice and document sustainable…
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Viva! Jene! and Redwood Groves Saved
Last week we lost a force of nature, and one who has been involved in all manner of ecological issues on the northcoast for decades. Yurok elder Jene McCovey has certainly been very involved since long before she was an elder. It seemed that Jene was everywhere people were getting together to strategize on a…
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2020 in the rearview mirror, almost…
Dear Friends of Wild Nature Everywhere, From my experience, we are all likely to get a whole pile of letters this season, as the end of the year draws near, as “giving Tuesday” approaches. Letters that start with a version of “Well, 2020 has been quite a year…” And it’s true! Whatever we are doing…
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Appeals Court Rules Against Richardson Grove Champions
We are beyond disappointed at a decision handed down on Dec. 2 by the Ninth Circuit regarding a controversial highway project through a grove of ancient redwood trees, reversing a lower court ruling that halted planned construction. The trees are part of Richardson Grove State Park, established in 1922 to protect the ancient redwoods that…
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Oct. 12 – Berkeley Indigenous Peoples Day
Berkeley INDIGENOUS PEOPLES DAY POW WOW & Indian Market 28th Annual Celebration 1992-2020 Monday, October 12, 2020, 2 pm A Virtual Commemorative Event on ZOOM Join Here: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81672395529 Meeting ID: 816 7239 5529 Berkeley’s Indigenous Peoples Day Powwow and Indian Market has been the ongoing celebration of that idea for 28 years. We gather on…
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Passionate and Persistent Activism in the Pandemic
It’s been a while since we’ve communicated with you, and you can likely guess the reasons. Everyone is overwhelmed dealing with our world in 2020, and the hits keep on coming. But the issues we care about are not only still there, but most campaigns and work have higher stakes, sooner deadlines, and greater needs…
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News from the forest…and news from the streets
We haven’t posted in a while, so our solidarity statement is coming a bit late. But we have been acting on our solidarity, in the streets, and in our lives. After putting up tree-sits earlier in the spring to protect redwood forest in California’s far north coast, upon discovering active logging in April, forest defenders…
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30th anniversary of the bombing of Judi Bari and Darryl Cherney ~ Sunday, May 24
Marking milestones and honoring fallen warriors in the age of coronavirus: “Starting from the very reasonable, but unfortunately, revolutionary concept that social practices which threaten the continuation of life on Earth must be changed, we need a theory of revolutionary ecology that will encompass social and biological issues, class struggle, and a recognition of the…
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Redwood Forest Defenders Occupy Trees in Strawberry Rock Timber Plan–Call on Green Diamond to halt logging
On Wednesday, April 1, Redwood Forest Defenders occupied tree sits in the contentious Strawberry Rock timber harvest plan, calling on Green Diamond Company to stop logging now! Green Diamond Resource Company (GDRC), a private timber company, has started industrial logging operations in the Strawberry Rock area in northern Humboldt County, a site culturally significant to…
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Converging for the Forest and the Climate
Dear friend of the Forest, I arrived home from a gathering last month exhausted but excited. Energized. Inspired. My brain was racing—processing, analyzing, sorting through the conversations and questions. And, in keeping with the goals of this gathering, I arrived home ready to hit the ground running and work. Representing the Bay Area Coalition for…