Earth First! Humboldt

A Spotted Owl nest is within the clear-cut portion of unit A.

THP# 1-08-155 - “McKay 2010″
The yellow circle represents a 1,000 ft. radius around the Spotted Owl nest.
The reddish patches were recently clear-cut.
Darker areas are patches of larger trees.
Yellow polygons: areas to be logged under this plan.
Red line: Ryan Creek (West)- Freshwater Creek (East) [...]

The tree sitter you see in this video is hanging around 90 ft. in the air from a traverse rope that stretches 200+ ft. between two large trees. The banner reads, “Hey Green Diamond, STOP Clear-cutting - Earth First!”
The action began on Dec. 2nd to bring attention to the clear-cut logging plan that will [...]

No offense, but the story on the McKay Tract logging and development protests on Eurekas Channel 3 news on Friday night was full of factual errors.
(Click here to see the show.The story on the McKay Tract protests starts at 6:05 on the video timeline.)
The following numbered quotes are transcriptions of news anchor Rissa Shaw. See [...]

With 101 acres of Redwood clearcuts already approved- Green Diamond is proposing to clearcut 76 more acres in lower Jacoby Creek. Green Diamond may have this tract in their sights for residential development due to it’s close proximity to town.
“Washington Gulch THP” #1-08-034 (pink) Already Approved.
129.9 acres total
101 acres clearcutting
25.9 acres selection
3 acres no harvest
“G-127 [...]