Earth First! Humboldt

Stop SB 455 – Save Our Forests!
From EPIC’s website- “This bill would dramatically expand the specific 3-year timber harvest plan required under current law, giving logging companies the option of preparing a very general 20-year plan covering up to 100,000 acres. Astonishingly, the bill proposes no increased protections over existing law, no restrictions on [...]

Earth First! Humboldt’s Position on the “McKay 09” Logging Plan

By Jeremy “Farmer” Jensen and Earth First! Humboldt 1/24/12

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The 7,200 acre McKay Tract has been heavily logged over the past century leaving very few mature stands of trees. The largest contiguous grove of old forest over 70 years old is found on Henderson Gulch [...]

Stormy weather is really setting in, but we’re hanging in there.
A few scenes to imagine from the past few days- tree-sitters barely staying dry through quick thinking, rags, jackets, cordage and ingenuity as rain attempts to penetrate every small gap in our shelters, huddled under our tarps in relative dark using headlamps to read during [...]

This summer, forest defenders with Earth First! Humboldt went into the field to capture images rarely seen by the public of Green Diamond’s extensive clear-cutting. Sealed by locked gates, masked by beauty strips and accessed by labyrinthine logging roads, reality on Green Diamond land is harsh. Now, 57 photos of what we witnessed are georeferenced [...]

As protests against Wall Street grow bigger and stronger, we continue our campaign in the forest against the same forces of greed and exploitation intent on liquidating the trees as if they were only numbers in a portfolio. As you can see in the picture, Green Diamond continues to clear-cut our precious temperate rainforest like [...]