tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20239657Wed, 14 Oct 2009 02:45:12 +0000http://saveancientforests.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.com (John Doe #86)Blogger224125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20239657.post-5044671798845437163Tue, 11 Aug 2009 05:11:00 +00002009-08-10T22:38:14.508-07:00The Earth First! Rendezvous and logging road blockades that followed were truly inspiring.This blog will remain mostly dormant for an indefinite period.Meanwhile, look through the archives and check out the links. A lot of the archives have to do with Pacific Lumber, a company that has now gone bankrupt and been purchased by the Fisher family, owners of the GAP clothing chain. Their relatively http://saveancientforests.blogspot.com/2009/08/socasc4ever-cuz-its-not-over.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (John Doe #86)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20239657.post-3764938491523515188Sun, 17 May 2009 20:19:00 +00002009-05-17T13:35:24.611-07:00check out EF Humboldt and the Earth First! Rendezvous, a yearly gathering of radical Earth defenders sharing skills and having a kick-ass time in the woods.http://saveancientforests.blogspot.com/2009/05/earth-first-still-at-it-in-redwoods.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (John Doe #86)8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20239657.post-1658793767336518071Sat, 11 Apr 2009 16:24:00 +00002009-04-11T09:40:39.872-07:00history channelloggingforest defenseAx menI for one think they should get the whole story instead of just the highly glorified version of events. Anyone know if they are still actively filming Ax Men? There's some feral forest friends out there that would really like to know.http://saveancientforests.blogspot.com/2009/04/wanted-location-of-axe-men-film-crew.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (John Doe #86)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20239657.post-5676976944403492668Mon, 16 Mar 2009 00:51:00 +00002009-03-15T18:11:28.475-07:00It turns out that some of the logging glorified on the Ax Men reality show is illegal. I don't watch it, I've seen enough loggers destroying Old-Growth forests in real life. The ads alone are enough to remind me that our forests and rivers, and really our whole planet, are facing a life or death scenario. Either people hold on to their medieval resource plundering mentality and bankrupt the http://saveancientforests.blogspot.com/2009/03/ax-men-tv-show-glorifies-illegal.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (John Doe #86)5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20239657.post-7412341902537232201Mon, 09 Mar 2009 03:12:00 +00002009-03-08T20:44:11.387-07:00Ok, enough hibernation, spring has sprung.At night, I can hear the soft thumps as the rats land on my roof. They launch themselves from the branches of the apricot tree because they want to get inside my attic, into a house with heat.click here for the full story by Susan Straight.photo sourcehttp://saveancientforests.blogspot.com/2009/03/suburbs-going-feral.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (John Doe #86)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20239657.post-8108388250615538614Tue, 09 Dec 2008 03:45:00 +00002008-12-08T19:51:22.894-08:00There's still plenty of good stuff to read in the archives. You can see current logging plans under review in the research links.http://saveancientforests.blogspot.com/2008/12/this-blog-is-hibernating.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (John Doe #86)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20239657.post-2095201974619635741Fri, 17 Oct 2008 16:52:00 +00002008-10-17T20:38:00.228-07:00photo sourceLee and Man Sold Evergreen to the "Worthy Pick Group" out of the British Virgin Islands.Quotes and numbers are from todays Eureka T-S.As the global economic downturn progresses, big timber industry firms with local facilities are now at odds.Green Diamond (GD) and subsidiary California Redwood Co. (CRC) say that Chinese-owned Evergreen Pulp owes them millions of dollars for logs and http://saveancientforests.blogspot.com/2008/10/pulp-friction.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (John Doe #86)6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20239657.post-4661687371443296063Thu, 16 Oct 2008 16:57:00 +00002008-10-17T11:21:16.756-07:00As many have said, the Evergreen pulp mill shut-down will reverberate through our local economy. In the Sept. 5th edition of the Times-Standard, Evergreen's Rex Bohn talked about how the company was installing new machinery to help them split and chip whole tanoak logs for pulp. Green Diamond was hoping to sell them Tanoak logs for which there has previously been little demand.Tanoaks have long http://saveancientforests.blogspot.com/2008/10/evergreen-diamond.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (John Doe #86)3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20239657.post-6857121783093360698Tue, 07 Oct 2008 03:32:00 +00002008-10-06T21:33:06.126-07:00As Earths ecosystems decline so does the economy. One fourth of the worlds mammals face extinction. Our global forests are being leveled. The real costs of industrial processing of natural resources have been externalized for centuries. The Earth is paying the price... and so are we.The generations of the past have stolen from their descendants. It is up to those who are next in line to step up http://saveancientforests.blogspot.com/2008/10/economy-and-ecology-facing-global.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (John Doe #86)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20239657.post-1580373092384556356Tue, 30 Sep 2008 01:41:00 +00002008-09-29T18:54:44.790-07:00the title keeps changing to a hindi script on it's own...*************************************************************************(If you have not already been notified, we apologize for the late notice)Our rallying cry of the last 2 decades "MAXXAM OUT OF HUMBOLDT!" has finally come to pass! You are invited to come and celebrate at what will likely be an amazing reunion!We will gather at Cuneo http://saveancientforests.blogspot.com/2008/09/hurwitz-out-of-humboldt-party.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (John Doe #86)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20239657.post-1706047256085914764Fri, 12 Sep 2008 18:47:00 +00002008-09-14T13:32:28.635-07:00Though different in character from other Action Camps I've attended, this one marks an important milestone in a shifting landscape. Pacific Lumber is no more. Their violently confrontational bully tactics against activists are hopefully gone too. We face a new situation in that other companies, who's logging practices were hidden in the shadow of PL's logging for years, are now receiving http://saveancientforests.blogspot.com/2008/09/ef-action-camp.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (John Doe #86)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20239657.post-5220032128922055668Thu, 31 Jul 2008 02:53:00 +00002008-08-02T09:49:39.321-07:00from- the EF! Humboldt Website. Click on the flier to see the huge version. Here's a report from last years Action Camp.September 17th of this year will mark ten years since the death of David Gypsy Chain. Click here for last years Sept. 17th post.(fixed the action camp link.)http://saveancientforests.blogspot.com/2008/07/earth-first-direct-action-camp-this.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (John Doe #86)3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20239657.post-5630637916164914700Thu, 31 Jul 2008 02:00:00 +00002008-07-30T19:08:16.834-07:00The reorganization of the former Pacific Lumber Company and Scotia Pacific companies is commencing. Forest defenders are watching as events unfold to see if this is the truly the end of Old-Growth logging on these embattled lands.(note: there are now three "Redwood Companies", Mendocino Redwood Company, Humboldt Redwood Company and California Redwood Company- formerly Simpson)http://saveancientforests.blogspot.com/2008/07/humboldt-redwood-company.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (John Doe #86)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20239657.post-6036477225469111811Sun, 27 Jul 2008 18:13:00 +00002008-07-27T11:51:01.720-07:00In-FightingAfter the Maxxam corporation executed a hostile takeover of Pacific Lumber in the early 1980's, Maxxam CEO Charles Hurwitz split the company into several smaller companies. Pacific Lumber (PL aka Palco) owns the town and sawmills. Scotia Pacific (Scopac) owns the land, writes logging plans and sells logs to PL. Now they're in bankruptcy court and the Judge in the case has ruled that http://saveancientforests.blogspot.com/2008/07/pl-subsidiary-resisting-reorganization.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (John Doe #86)7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20239657.post-2877999858159860435Mon, 21 Jul 2008 17:46:00 +00002008-07-21T10:55:29.027-07:00A friend came across this website (www.stopclearcutting.org) on accident while looking for www.stopclearcuttingcalifornia.org"The senseless destruction of creation caused by clearcutting God's forests leads to floods, extinction of species of untold value to the future of humankind, depletion of soils, and ultimately famine and death."http://saveancientforests.blogspot.com/2008/07/christians-against-clearcutting.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (John Doe #86)3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20239657.post-6616704917429372568Wed, 16 Jul 2008 02:50:00 +00002008-07-15T20:41:51.898-07:00I am glad there are firefighters out there protecting people and their dwellings. That's what I think should be focused on, not fires that are burning in wilderness areas. This picture shows the "Siskyous Complex" fire crossing the GO road.The below email was forwarded to me today. Key sentences:"the logging is shaking houses on the property I'm living on many miles away because they are falling http://saveancientforests.blogspot.com/2008/07/hells-half-acre.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (John Doe #86)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20239657.post-5369922984105170841Mon, 07 Jul 2008 17:20:00 +00002008-07-07T10:50:19.410-07:00Keep an eye on the timber wars. Like coals smoldering underground, the resistance to Old-Growth logging and clear-cutting may be out of sight for most, but the strong wind of highly destructive logging plans is in the forecast and forest defenders are watching- check out the new website..http://saveancientforests.blogspot.com/2008/07/earth-first-humboldt.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (John Doe #86)6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20239657.post-8656557017686155411Mon, 07 Jul 2008 17:09:00 +00002008-07-07T10:18:29.231-07:00For me, the Pacific Lumber Bankruptcy has been a long series of delays and postponements. Now we face the whole shebang getting dragged into appeals court by the creditors, those who initally said they wanted to make peace and foster sustainable forestry in Humboldt. Now we've been witnessing the other side of their forked tongue as they threaten the viability of the business they claimed they http://saveancientforests.blogspot.com/2008/07/aint-over-til-its-over.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (John Doe #86)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20239657.post-7344416586803483737Thu, 26 Jun 2008 17:25:00 +00002008-06-26T10:31:40.123-07:00The forest fires have complicated matters a bit around here. Had to evacuate some friends who had been engulfed in smoke for days. They didn't realize how close the fire actually was. Had to drive through the fires to reach them, the fires were on both sides of the road, I had about 50ft of leeway on either side on the way in. They said it was periodically raining ashes and burned leaves. I'll http://saveancientforests.blogspot.com/2008/06/im-still-alive.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (John Doe #86)3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20239657.post-1290411651510880468Fri, 13 Jun 2008 17:28:00 +00002008-06-13T10:47:23.481-07:00Stuff's afoot and I'm really busy. When will this bankruptcy actually be over? Will it ever? If MRC has to pay $300 million on top of what they already offered it doesn't bode well. It would probably mean a higher rate of logging to pay off the debt.... sounds kind of familiar doesn't it? Sandy Dean told me at the Warfinger that he doesn't like herbicides either but they need to use them to http://saveancientforests.blogspot.com/2008/06/on-fly.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (John Doe #86)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20239657.post-4932096475750472788Sun, 08 Jun 2008 01:40:00 +00002008-06-07T19:03:36.381-07:00The ruling is in, Pacific Lumber will be taken over by Mendocino Redwood company (knock on wood). Texas bankruptcy Judge Richard Schmidt chose the MRC plan over the Noteholders proposal to auction off the company, essentially stating that the auction plan did not fulfill the requirements of a successful reorganization plan. Not much time to get into more detail today. Check out the Humboldt http://saveancientforests.blogspot.com/2008/06/mendocino-redwood-company-to-assimilate.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (John Doe #86)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20239657.post-3105645911406362546Fri, 30 May 2008 15:30:00 +00002008-05-30T08:50:06.225-07:00Repeating what they were told by Pacific Lumber lawyer and VP Frank Bacik, the Eureka Reporter writes that Judge Schmidt indicated from his courtroom in Texas that he would probably make a ruling next week. He will reveal his decision as to whether the bankrupt Pacific Lumber should go to Mendocino Redwood Company or be auctioned off as requested by the banks who loaned millions to the failing, http://saveancientforests.blogspot.com/2008/05/judge-says-ruling-on-bankruptcy-likely.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (John Doe #86)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20239657.post-2331479455385750198Tue, 20 May 2008 18:55:00 +00002008-05-20T17:43:44.360-07:00The paragraph below is from the Union of Concerned Scientists. I will be writing about this topic again soon as climate change is possibly the greatest threat to our world aside from nuclear annihilation. The above photo is from the Grizzly Creek watershed and shows both Green Diamond and Pacific Lumber clearcuts. The graph below was found at the Stop Clearcutting California website."There is a http://saveancientforests.blogspot.com/2008/05/clearcut-logging-fueling-global-warming.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (John Doe #86)3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20239657.post-4422185916968300967Fri, 16 May 2008 17:15:00 +00002008-05-16T10:31:28.153-07:00Oops, sorry for the misinfo in yesterdays post saying that the last hearing would be today. The stories in the Eureka Reporter and the Times Standard give a little insight but not much on what Judge Schmidt may be thinking.http://saveancientforests.blogspot.com/2008/05/last-pl-bankruptcy-hearing-was.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (John Doe #86)15tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20239657.post-5217045953923046289Thu, 15 May 2008 22:30:00 +00002008-05-15T18:22:49.513-07:00Tomorrow: Closing arguments in Pacific Lumbers bankruptcy case in Corpus Christi, Texas. The ruling that will set the future of the company in motion will follow next but know one knows exactly when. On another note, the recent mention by a bankruptcy lawyer of the costs the company incurs due to lawsuits and protests had me thinking back. I recently visited a friend of mine from back in the http://saveancientforests.blogspot.com/2008/05/direct-action-is-factor-in-pl.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (John Doe #86)4