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Where Have All Log's Gone?
Where Have All The Logs Gone?
Maxxam/PL's Partial Closure of Carlotta Mill
Maxxam/PL's Partial Closure of Carlotta Mill
Earth First!
For Immediate Release: Thursday, August 9, 2001
Contact: Naomi Wagner, (707)-629-3546
Where Have All The Logs Gone?
Maxxam/PL's Partial Closure of Carlotta Mill
"Maxxam/Pacific Lumber's recent layoffs and subsequent blaming of Earth First! are both regrettable and unnecessary," said Naomi Wagner, long-time Earth First! activist and Petrolia resident, "When will this company learn to live sustainably?"
The company is complaining that the Habitat Conservation Plan (HCP) is not providing them with a steady supply of logs and that pressure from activists is slowing them down. But, according to Citizen Monitors, Maxxam/PL has continued logging at an unsustainable rate this year and has thousands of acres in active and pending Timber Harvest Plans (THP).
In Freshwater they have filed some fifteen plans, at least half of which are approved. The company owns about 15,000 acres in Freshwater, two-thirds of which were clearcut between 1990 and 1997. Clearcutting has dumped massive loads of sediment into water courses, harmful to fish and water quality. They continue to ignore the cumulative effects of years of overcutting watersheds. In Bear Creek, considered the most heavily impacted watershed, CDF has approved plans totaling an additional 700 acres.
"The underlying problem is their refusal to perform real water quality monitoring as required by the local and Regional Water Quality Agency", said Rob DiPerna of THP Watch. "Out of 22 watersheds in their more than 200,000 acre holdings they have not even started a monitoring program on a single one. They are now defying a special Order to Comply and are challenging Water Quality's authority to issue such an order."
Water quality monitoring is a pre-requisite for completion of the watershed analysis requirements of the HCP. When the Habitat Conservation Plan was written it totally disregarded the already existing jurisdiction of the Clean Water Act (CWA) and North Coast Regional Water Quality has always maintained that the HCP does not meet its CWA standards.
Maxxam / PL blames protests in the Mattole for the layoffs at the Carlotta Mill, but that mill processes mainly redwood, while the Mattole is solely a Douglas Fir forest. They also sight lack of access to the Hole in Headwaters, but this is another matter of their needing to comply with a court order to complete water quality monitoring.
The company has filed a Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation (SLAPP) against 70 community residents and activists claiming harm to their business operations. "We are simply protecting public values and upholding the Endangered Species Act . They're attempting to drive a wedge between activists and timber workers, but we have never thought of loggers as 'Us and Them' but rather just all of us!" said Jack Nounnan an elder activist from Arcata named and served in the lawsuit. Meanwhile Maxxam/PL continues to hire Columbia Helicopter crews from Oregon.
For Immediate Release: Thursday, August 9, 2001
Contact: Naomi Wagner, (707)-629-3546
Where Have All The Logs Gone?
Maxxam/PL's Partial Closure of Carlotta Mill
"Maxxam/Pacific Lumber's recent layoffs and subsequent blaming of Earth First! are both regrettable and unnecessary," said Naomi Wagner, long-time Earth First! activist and Petrolia resident, "When will this company learn to live sustainably?"
The company is complaining that the Habitat Conservation Plan (HCP) is not providing them with a steady supply of logs and that pressure from activists is slowing them down. But, according to Citizen Monitors, Maxxam/PL has continued logging at an unsustainable rate this year and has thousands of acres in active and pending Timber Harvest Plans (THP).
In Freshwater they have filed some fifteen plans, at least half of which are approved. The company owns about 15,000 acres in Freshwater, two-thirds of which were clearcut between 1990 and 1997. Clearcutting has dumped massive loads of sediment into water courses, harmful to fish and water quality. They continue to ignore the cumulative effects of years of overcutting watersheds. In Bear Creek, considered the most heavily impacted watershed, CDF has approved plans totaling an additional 700 acres.
"The underlying problem is their refusal to perform real water quality monitoring as required by the local and Regional Water Quality Agency", said Rob DiPerna of THP Watch. "Out of 22 watersheds in their more than 200,000 acre holdings they have not even started a monitoring program on a single one. They are now defying a special Order to Comply and are challenging Water Quality's authority to issue such an order."
Water quality monitoring is a pre-requisite for completion of the watershed analysis requirements of the HCP. When the Habitat Conservation Plan was written it totally disregarded the already existing jurisdiction of the Clean Water Act (CWA) and North Coast Regional Water Quality has always maintained that the HCP does not meet its CWA standards.
Maxxam / PL blames protests in the Mattole for the layoffs at the Carlotta Mill, but that mill processes mainly redwood, while the Mattole is solely a Douglas Fir forest. They also sight lack of access to the Hole in Headwaters, but this is another matter of their needing to comply with a court order to complete water quality monitoring.
The company has filed a Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation (SLAPP) against 70 community residents and activists claiming harm to their business operations. "We are simply protecting public values and upholding the Endangered Species Act . They're attempting to drive a wedge between activists and timber workers, but we have never thought of loggers as 'Us and Them' but rather just all of us!" said Jack Nounnan an elder activist from Arcata named and served in the lawsuit. Meanwhile Maxxam/PL continues to hire Columbia Helicopter crews from Oregon.
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Naomi Wagner is a liar. Her crocodile tears for the people that have lost their jobs is pathetic. She neglects to mention that she and her EF buddies wanted a 63,000 acres Headwaters preserve created. That would have eliminated over 600 jobs.
sure headwaters ecosystem entailed 60,000 acres not just the postage stamp that was protected in the so called deal. but it funny that in the bay area 6000 jobs were lost recently due to lay offs because the economy is in a slump. which trickles down to the building industry and a slow down in housing starts. that combined with ineffective management driven by hurwitz's debts are shutting down their mills. it's not naomi's fault. it's the fault of ineffective managemeent and a slump in the economy that is causing layoffs throughout the us. from two years ago, the stockmarket is worth a third less than it was. there was a boom bust economy and it's the bust time period. that fact doesn't even get into the neccesity to protect the ecosystem. that's a whole other story to tackle. get real recon! i also suspect that recon is a industry person responding to the well drafted press release. we take your response miss bullwinkle with a grain of salt. seen the reprints of the imc stuff in the court papers. we know you monitor this and use ficticious names, because your embarressed to admit the real truth of what goes on behind the redwood curtain.
Jobs are momentary, temporary, fleeting things.
Jobs are one of many ways people move money around, and money is one of several factors influencing how well your kids eat.
This is America, and everybody's kids are gonna eat.
That's not the issue.
Employers are happy to lay people off for any reason or no reason. Less money for you is more money for them. Your boss doesn't give a shit whether your kids eat. That's not what this debate is about.
This debate is about the momentary, temporary, fleeting flow of dollars through Maxxam/PL bank accounts, on the one hand, versus the ongoing mass extinction going on all over the world on the other hand, and specifically the loss of unique wildlife habitat in the tiny amount of redwood forest that's left in the modern world, most of which is in Humboldt County. Nowhere else.
Money is a man made abstraction. Extinction is real, and extinction is forever. We are in the middle of the worst mass extinction in the last 60 million years.
Sixty. Million. Years.
Cutting every tree in Humboldt County down is not going to provide loggers and millworkers with job security. The timber industry is cyclical, and there's no job security to be had.
If you can't handle periodic unemployment, find another line of work. Don't take your temporary, man made, abstract problems out on real forests that take hundreds or thousands of years to recover from your abuse.
Jobs are one of many ways people move money around, and money is one of several factors influencing how well your kids eat.
This is America, and everybody's kids are gonna eat.
That's not the issue.
Employers are happy to lay people off for any reason or no reason. Less money for you is more money for them. Your boss doesn't give a shit whether your kids eat. That's not what this debate is about.
This debate is about the momentary, temporary, fleeting flow of dollars through Maxxam/PL bank accounts, on the one hand, versus the ongoing mass extinction going on all over the world on the other hand, and specifically the loss of unique wildlife habitat in the tiny amount of redwood forest that's left in the modern world, most of which is in Humboldt County. Nowhere else.
Money is a man made abstraction. Extinction is real, and extinction is forever. We are in the middle of the worst mass extinction in the last 60 million years.
Sixty. Million. Years.
Cutting every tree in Humboldt County down is not going to provide loggers and millworkers with job security. The timber industry is cyclical, and there's no job security to be had.
If you can't handle periodic unemployment, find another line of work. Don't take your temporary, man made, abstract problems out on real forests that take hundreds or thousands of years to recover from your abuse.
"nobody important" hit the nail on the head. My thoughts exactly, but I don't have a way with words. The part about "not taking your temporary, man made, abstract problems out on the forest", whew!
This people, like Charles, and even the CDF, well they have holes in their heads, what they are doing to our environment that sustains us, well it is literally making me sick. It is just sickening to watch. And the level of ignorance in some of these loggers, well scares me quite frankley. It's also sad, because we all pay for such irresponsible behavior.
And people DO get laid off all the time. The amount of manipulation going on around this issue is amazing. PL doesn't care one freaking iota about any of those people or their jobs, except their own, or they would practice sustainable logging. I am sure that Naomi really DOES care about the loggers, as people, and that Mary B. truly doesn't.
A manager from PL told me to my face, that sooner or later it ALL will be clearcut, speaking of the Headwaters, and that he doesn't understand the "mystique" of the old growth. To MY face. A year ago, or less. I tell you, it seems like these people have lost touch with their souls. They have little to no respect for things that are REAL. How can they?
Anyway I read something that makes me think of Charles, and many others, it goes like this:
What happened? Did you wish for a big D---, and become one instead. Sorry, I couldn't resist.
How the CDF is getting away with allowing PL to destroy that precious ecosystem is what scares me the most. There is corruption all the way "up" the ladder. Oh what a tangled web they are weaving. Nothing in my life has made me feel as sad and angry as witnessing this violence. And that is what it is, on every level. sick sick sick.
that's all for now.
Somebody Important
This people, like Charles, and even the CDF, well they have holes in their heads, what they are doing to our environment that sustains us, well it is literally making me sick. It is just sickening to watch. And the level of ignorance in some of these loggers, well scares me quite frankley. It's also sad, because we all pay for such irresponsible behavior.
And people DO get laid off all the time. The amount of manipulation going on around this issue is amazing. PL doesn't care one freaking iota about any of those people or their jobs, except their own, or they would practice sustainable logging. I am sure that Naomi really DOES care about the loggers, as people, and that Mary B. truly doesn't.
A manager from PL told me to my face, that sooner or later it ALL will be clearcut, speaking of the Headwaters, and that he doesn't understand the "mystique" of the old growth. To MY face. A year ago, or less. I tell you, it seems like these people have lost touch with their souls. They have little to no respect for things that are REAL. How can they?
Anyway I read something that makes me think of Charles, and many others, it goes like this:
What happened? Did you wish for a big D---, and become one instead. Sorry, I couldn't resist.
How the CDF is getting away with allowing PL to destroy that precious ecosystem is what scares me the most. There is corruption all the way "up" the ladder. Oh what a tangled web they are weaving. Nothing in my life has made me feel as sad and angry as witnessing this violence. And that is what it is, on every level. sick sick sick.
that's all for now.
Somebody Important
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