Action Alert: Help Protect Wildlife, Water Quality and Fisheries in August Fire Area
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by Kimberly Baker
2y ago
Upper South Fork Trinity River Watershed in May of 2021 after the 2020 August Complex Wildfire. Red Mountain and Red Mt. Creek display a natural mosaic burn pattern. Photo by Kimberly Baker. Shasta Trinity National Forest is proposing to log over 4,000 acres in Forest Glen and the Wild and Scenic South Fork Trinity River in the Smoky, Red Mountain, and Prospect Creek tributaries. The stated purpose of the project is public safety and recreational access, reforestation, reduced fuels and economics. Public safety and community protection should be a priority. However, these priorities are best ..read more
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EPIC is Accepting Nominations for Board of Directors July 1-31
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by Amber Jamieson
2y ago
WANTED: Professional, assertive, creative, problem-solvers interested in joining the EPIC Board of Directors. We are looking for people with experience in the following areas: non-profit governance; conservation science; financial management; environmental law; policy development; fundraising; and event planning. Current EPIC Members* may apply to become a Board Member between July 1 and July 31 for the next Board of Director’s year, which begins on January 1. Prospective candidates are asked to fill out an application (available online or in hard-copy format at the office), describing qual ..read more
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Make Your Voice Heard in Redistricting!
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by Tom Wheeler
3y ago
California is redrawing its federal and state legislative maps (including losing one congressional seat!). That means that your legislative district might change.  While environmental and climate justice advocates have been building a policy agenda for years, we currently do not have the political power in California to act on these solutions at the rate and scale required. The 2021 redistricting process is a unique moment to make key structural change: not only for the next legislative session, but for this final decade leading to the 2030 climate deadline. California’s Constitution requ ..read more
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An Update From The Campaign To Save Jackson Demonstration State Forest
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by Matthew Simmons
3y ago
As summer heats up, so does the campaign to save Jackson Demonstration State Forest (Jackson). As you may know, Jackson is a 50,000 acre, state-owned, coast redwood forest where CAL FIRE ‘demonstrates’ logging for private timber companies. Environmental activists, outdoor recreationists, and the Coyote Valley Band of Pomo Indians have allied together to save Jackson. We believe that California should be using its state-owned forest lands like Jackson to sequester carbon, enhance biodiversity, encourage outdoor recreation, and preserve Native American cultural heritage. This past week, forest d ..read more
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EPIC & Allies File Notice of Intent to Sue For Failure In Trespass Cannabis Grows
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by epic
3y ago
Trespass grow site in Shasta-Trinity National Forest. Photo by US Forest Service. EPIC and allies including Klamath-Siskiyou Wildlands Center, Californians for Alternatives to Toxics [and the] Northcoast Environmental Center, filed a formal notice of intent to sue the [U.S.] Forest Service for failing to clean up hazardous waste associated with trespass cannabis grows on Forest Service lands in California. At the heart of the lawsuit is a novel legal question: Is the federal government obligated to remove hazardous waste on its property? By deliberately leaving hazardous waste in the forest ..read more
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ACTION ALERT: Save Richardson Grove For Future Generations!
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by epic
3y ago
For more than a decade, EPIC and allies have fought the proposed Caltrans project in Richardson Grove. The Grove was designated as a heritage park and protected in the California State Park system, and is one of the state’s oldest and most popular state parks. Richardson Grove sits alongside the wild and scenic Eel River, and is a place that is of incredible value to a multitude of people from around the region, the state, the country, and the world. Richardson Grove is the gateway to Northern California’s redwoods, and it shelters one of the last protected stands of accessible old-growth redw ..read more
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Enviros Score Victory on Fish Farm: County & Company Agree More Analysis Necessary
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by Tom Wheeler
3y ago
Image from LostCoastOutpost EPIC, together with our allies at Humboldt Baykeeper, the Coalition for Responsible Transportation Priorities, 350 Humboldt, Humboldt Chapter of the Surfrider Foundation, and the Northcoast Environmental Center, recently won a surprise victory in what seem like an arcane procedural matter concerning the proposed Nordic Aquafarm facility on Humboldt Bay: Nordic has agreed to do a full environmental impact report and not just a initial statement/mitigated negative declaration. Confused? You should be! This gets into the weeds of the California Environmental Quality ..read more
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Lumber Prices are Product of COVID, Not Environmental Protections
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by Tom Wheeler
3y ago
The High Cost of Lumber, Explained If you have been to the lumberyard recently, you likely came away with sticker shock. Lumber prices are up dramatically— from 67% this year to 340% last year. And, of course, environmentalists and endangered species are getting blamed. (We have seen a marked rise in rude emails to EPIC, which is one of the casualties of this job.) To set the record straight, let’s be clear that it was market failures—not environmental protections—at fault for the jump in prices.  At the start of the pandemic, anticipating hard times ahead, timber companies sought to offl ..read more
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Join Us For A Summer Ivy Pull On July 15th!
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by Rhiannon Lewis-Stephenson
3y ago
The Event: We had such a great time during our Earth Day Ivy Pull in partnership with the No Ivy League, that we have decided to make Ivy Pulls a new quarterly event for EPIC! We will continue our previous work to remove invasive ivy from the ground and trees along the junction of Stagecoach Road and Anderson Road in Trinidad, CA. English ivy climbs the native trees and eventually causes them to die, removing important coastal erosion buffers. By removing the ivy, we will help to maintain the diverse coastal forests that we know and love. When: Thursday, July 15th, from 1:00-4:00 PM What to br ..read more
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Take Action: Call For An Immediate Halt To Logging In Occupied JDSF!
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by epic
3y ago
Logging commenced yesterday on the highly contested timber harvest plan called Caspar 500 in Jackson State Demonstration Forest (JDSF) where a tree sit in an almost two-hundred-year-old redwood known as the “Mama Tree” has captured the public’s attention since April. Trees are being felled despite people being present in the forest in the same location in an effort to protect the trees. Early yesterday morning, tree sitter Alder reported hearing chainsaws and heavy thuds as big trees were being cut at a “fast and furious” rate in multiple locations. Alder immediately notified Cal Fire State Fo ..read more
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