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STATE WATER RESOURCES CONTROL BOARD HEARING
On March 16th, the Humboldt Watershed Council and EPIC appeared before
the North Coast Regional Water Quality Control Board in Santa Rosa to
present their case against enrolling new timber harvest plans for
Pacific Lumber in the severely damaged watersheds of Freshwater Creek
and Elk River
the North Coast Regional Water Quality Control Board in Santa Rosa to
present their case against enrolling new timber harvest plans for
Pacific Lumber in the severely damaged watersheds of Freshwater Creek
and Elk River
EPIC ACTION ALERT
Please Forward Widely!
_______________________________________________________
STATE WATER RESOURCES CONTROL BOARD HEARING
_______________________________________________________
On March 16th, the Humboldt Watershed Council and EPIC appeared before
the North Coast Regional Water Quality Control Board in Santa Rosa to
present their case against enrolling new timber harvest plans for
Pacific Lumber in the severely damaged watersheds of Freshwater Creek
and Elk River (see *http://www.wildcalifornia.org/actions/number-21*
for futher details).
At the end of the day, the Regional Board voted to give Pacific Lumber
the right to log 75% of the amount of board-feet they initially
requested. That's 25% more than their own staff felt was prudent! We
think it's 75% more than the watersheds can tolerate!
EPIC joins the Humboldt Watershed Council in appealing this process to
the State Water Resources Control Board, which is holding a hearing on
Tuesday, April 5, 2005, at 1:30 pm.
If you can show up at the hearing in Sacramento to witness the process,
please attend:
CAL/EPA BUILDING
1001 I Street
First Floor Training Room
Sacramento, CA
If you can send a message to the Board to let them know that they
should NOT permit logging in these watersheds, use our prepared email,
or feel free to add your own thoughts.
Take action now by responding to this alert using EPIC's web site:
http://www.wildcalifornia.org/actions/number-23
BACKGROUND ON THE REGIONAL BOARD HEARING:
At the March 16th hearing in Santa Rosa, Maxxam/Pacific Lumber
presented their view that inadequate logging due to over-regulation has
driven them to the brink of bankruptcy.
Mark Lovelace of Humboldt Watershed Council presented compelling
evidence that Pacific Lumber has consistently over-logged and diverted
profits to their parent company in Texas. He also presented video
footage of the serious damage done to property of many local residents
who have been fighting Maxxam/Pacific Lumber's destructive practices
for years.
The Regional Water Board's own advisory staff presented data that
support their recommendation to limit Pacific Lumber to take no more
than 50% of what they asked for, recognizing the damage that would be
done by additional logging activities.
Several North Coast Regional WQ Board members expressed great concern
for the health of the watersheds. They seemed to agree that Freshwater
Creek and Elk River are impaired watersheds, and that they need to be
protected. Many of us were shocked as we witnessed the irrationality of
the vote that resulted in giving Pacific Lumber three-quarters of what
they wanted, when the evidence overwhelmingly suggested that at least a
temporary moratorium on logging was prudent, if not essential to the
recovery of the watersheds in question.
Help us tell the State Water Resources Control Board that they must
protect the health of our watersheds--and our communities.
Tell them to deny approvals for all THPs in Elk River or Freshwater
Creek until adequate Watershed-wide Waste Discharge Requirements have
been developed.
We think they should protect our watersheds, not provide a bail-out
scheme for Pacific Lumber!
Take action now by responding to this alert using EPIC's web site:
http://www.wildcalifornia.org/actions/number-23
Please Forward Widely!
_______________________________________________________
STATE WATER RESOURCES CONTROL BOARD HEARING
_______________________________________________________
On March 16th, the Humboldt Watershed Council and EPIC appeared before
the North Coast Regional Water Quality Control Board in Santa Rosa to
present their case against enrolling new timber harvest plans for
Pacific Lumber in the severely damaged watersheds of Freshwater Creek
and Elk River (see *http://www.wildcalifornia.org/actions/number-21*
for futher details).
At the end of the day, the Regional Board voted to give Pacific Lumber
the right to log 75% of the amount of board-feet they initially
requested. That's 25% more than their own staff felt was prudent! We
think it's 75% more than the watersheds can tolerate!
EPIC joins the Humboldt Watershed Council in appealing this process to
the State Water Resources Control Board, which is holding a hearing on
Tuesday, April 5, 2005, at 1:30 pm.
If you can show up at the hearing in Sacramento to witness the process,
please attend:
CAL/EPA BUILDING
1001 I Street
First Floor Training Room
Sacramento, CA
If you can send a message to the Board to let them know that they
should NOT permit logging in these watersheds, use our prepared email,
or feel free to add your own thoughts.
Take action now by responding to this alert using EPIC's web site:
http://www.wildcalifornia.org/actions/number-23
BACKGROUND ON THE REGIONAL BOARD HEARING:
At the March 16th hearing in Santa Rosa, Maxxam/Pacific Lumber
presented their view that inadequate logging due to over-regulation has
driven them to the brink of bankruptcy.
Mark Lovelace of Humboldt Watershed Council presented compelling
evidence that Pacific Lumber has consistently over-logged and diverted
profits to their parent company in Texas. He also presented video
footage of the serious damage done to property of many local residents
who have been fighting Maxxam/Pacific Lumber's destructive practices
for years.
The Regional Water Board's own advisory staff presented data that
support their recommendation to limit Pacific Lumber to take no more
than 50% of what they asked for, recognizing the damage that would be
done by additional logging activities.
Several North Coast Regional WQ Board members expressed great concern
for the health of the watersheds. They seemed to agree that Freshwater
Creek and Elk River are impaired watersheds, and that they need to be
protected. Many of us were shocked as we witnessed the irrationality of
the vote that resulted in giving Pacific Lumber three-quarters of what
they wanted, when the evidence overwhelmingly suggested that at least a
temporary moratorium on logging was prudent, if not essential to the
recovery of the watersheds in question.
Help us tell the State Water Resources Control Board that they must
protect the health of our watersheds--and our communities.
Tell them to deny approvals for all THPs in Elk River or Freshwater
Creek until adequate Watershed-wide Waste Discharge Requirements have
been developed.
We think they should protect our watersheds, not provide a bail-out
scheme for Pacific Lumber!
Take action now by responding to this alert using EPIC's web site:
http://www.wildcalifornia.org/actions/number-23
For more information:
http://www.wildcalifornia.org/actions/numb...
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A majority of the land claimed by Maxxam/Pacific Lumber was taken by force from several regional tribes..
From the Round Valley Tribal history site;
http://www.covelo.net/tribes/pages/tribes_history.shtml
"When the reservation was established, the Yuki people (as they came to be called) of Round Valley were forced into a difficult and unusual situation. Their traditional homeland was not completely taken over by settlers as in other parts of California. Instead, a small part of it was reserved especially for their use as well as the use of other Indians, many of whom were enemies of the Yuki. The Yuki had to share their home with strangers who spoke other languages, lived with other beliefs, and who used the land and its products differently.
Indians came to Round Valley as they did to other reservations - by force. The word "drive", widely used at the time, is descriptive of the practice of "rounding up" Indians and "driving" them like cattle to the reservation where they were "corralled" by high picket fences. Such drives took place in all weather and seasons, and the elderly and sick often did not survive.
From years of intermarriage, a common lifestyle, and a shared land base, a unified community emerged. The descendants of Yuki, Concow Maidu, Little Lake and other Pomo, Nomlaki, Cahto, Wailaki, Pit River peoples formed a new tribe on the reservation, the Covelo Indian Community, later to be called the Round Valley Indian Tribes. Their heritage is a rich combination of different cultures with a common reservation experience and history."
Maxxam's claim of property ownership only applies if the historical evidence of land theft from indigenous peoples is left out of the discussion. Once this fact is persistently stated, Maxxam will need to acknowledge their land holdings are indeed stolen..
In Canada's Vancouver Island the Nuu Chah Nulth people have resisted logging and eventually were able to enter into a partnership with MacMillan Bloedel logging corporation. The new group is called Iisaak and is dedicated to long term protection of the forest instead of short term profit fueled destrutive harvest methods..
Maxxam/Pacific Lumber cannot be trusted to be involved in the forests of Humboldt/Mendo. The original caretakers at Round Valley need to have a real option of involvement in what happens to the forests..
Local people also need to have community forests not owned by a single corporation, instead being a collective shared land for the town..
Round Valley Sovereign Confederated Tribes;
http://www.covelo.net/tribes/pages/tribes_history.shtml
Nuu Chah Nulth Tribal council;
http://www.nuuchahnulth.org/trees.htm
Iisaak;
From the Round Valley Tribal history site;
http://www.covelo.net/tribes/pages/tribes_history.shtml
"When the reservation was established, the Yuki people (as they came to be called) of Round Valley were forced into a difficult and unusual situation. Their traditional homeland was not completely taken over by settlers as in other parts of California. Instead, a small part of it was reserved especially for their use as well as the use of other Indians, many of whom were enemies of the Yuki. The Yuki had to share their home with strangers who spoke other languages, lived with other beliefs, and who used the land and its products differently.
Indians came to Round Valley as they did to other reservations - by force. The word "drive", widely used at the time, is descriptive of the practice of "rounding up" Indians and "driving" them like cattle to the reservation where they were "corralled" by high picket fences. Such drives took place in all weather and seasons, and the elderly and sick often did not survive.
From years of intermarriage, a common lifestyle, and a shared land base, a unified community emerged. The descendants of Yuki, Concow Maidu, Little Lake and other Pomo, Nomlaki, Cahto, Wailaki, Pit River peoples formed a new tribe on the reservation, the Covelo Indian Community, later to be called the Round Valley Indian Tribes. Their heritage is a rich combination of different cultures with a common reservation experience and history."
Maxxam's claim of property ownership only applies if the historical evidence of land theft from indigenous peoples is left out of the discussion. Once this fact is persistently stated, Maxxam will need to acknowledge their land holdings are indeed stolen..
In Canada's Vancouver Island the Nuu Chah Nulth people have resisted logging and eventually were able to enter into a partnership with MacMillan Bloedel logging corporation. The new group is called Iisaak and is dedicated to long term protection of the forest instead of short term profit fueled destrutive harvest methods..
Maxxam/Pacific Lumber cannot be trusted to be involved in the forests of Humboldt/Mendo. The original caretakers at Round Valley need to have a real option of involvement in what happens to the forests..
Local people also need to have community forests not owned by a single corporation, instead being a collective shared land for the town..
Round Valley Sovereign Confederated Tribes;
http://www.covelo.net/tribes/pages/tribes_history.shtml
Nuu Chah Nulth Tribal council;
http://www.nuuchahnulth.org/trees.htm
Iisaak;
For more information:
http://www.iisaak.com/
You can say that about damn near any place in the world. You going to hold Maxxam to a diffirent standard tha the rest of the planet
Maxxam, SPI and other timber corporations own an excess amount of land, more than is justified by "private property" advocates who mainly maintain a personal tract for housing and possible sustainance farming. William Hearst, the CA timber baron who financed hemp prohibition was one of the few individuals to own such large tracts of land..
Maxxam is one corporation of many that claim property ownership of excess amounts of land. Either this land needs to be returned to the tribes who it was stolen from to begin with (in this case Round Valley), or a shared collective with local residents. Corporations like Maxxam/PL, SPI, International Paper have proven themselves to be unworthy caretakers of the land and need to have their property ownership claims revoked..
Out of fairness indigenous peoples need to be given first chance at reclaiming the land. National forests are in the shared collective category, yet the US corporate government branch called "Forest Service" sells out to corporate timber like SPI, IP, GP, Weyerhauser, Maxxam/PL, etc.. every time..
Am also advocating returning land claimed by mining corporations to the indigenous people (Dineh, Hopi, Shoshone, Paiute) who slaved as workers in the mines and now suffer with various types of cancer as a result..
to quote the band Midnight Oil,
"it belongs to them, let's give it back!!"
peace, love and justice,
luna moth
Maxxam is one corporation of many that claim property ownership of excess amounts of land. Either this land needs to be returned to the tribes who it was stolen from to begin with (in this case Round Valley), or a shared collective with local residents. Corporations like Maxxam/PL, SPI, International Paper have proven themselves to be unworthy caretakers of the land and need to have their property ownership claims revoked..
Out of fairness indigenous peoples need to be given first chance at reclaiming the land. National forests are in the shared collective category, yet the US corporate government branch called "Forest Service" sells out to corporate timber like SPI, IP, GP, Weyerhauser, Maxxam/PL, etc.. every time..
Am also advocating returning land claimed by mining corporations to the indigenous people (Dineh, Hopi, Shoshone, Paiute) who slaved as workers in the mines and now suffer with various types of cancer as a result..
to quote the band Midnight Oil,
"it belongs to them, let's give it back!!"
peace, love and justice,
luna moth
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