tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20239657Thu, 08 Sep 2016 14:01:54 +0000Ax menBP Spill Cartooncascadiaforest defensehistory channelloggingsouthern cascadiaThe work to defend our forests continues, but this blog is toast.http://saveancientforests.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.com (John Doe #86)Blogger233125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20239657.post-7977019283380499851Fri, 16 Jul 2010 18:23:00 +00002010-07-16T12:00:36.326-07:00I started this blog in 2005 to share information and chronicle the events of the ongoing struggle to defend our forests from Maxxam/Pacific Lumber. With their inevitable bankruptcy, caused by the over logging of our precious Redwood forests, I grew tired of posting all the time. Our forests still need your help, no matter where you are on Earth. Please do something where you live to defend our http://saveancientforests.blogspot.com/2010/07/end-of-blog.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (John Doe #86)12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20239657.post-1454247237958228733Thu, 01 Jul 2010 18:21:00 +00002010-07-01T11:44:31.455-07:00life without the webhttp://saveancientforests.blogspot.com/2010/07/internet-is-not-my-friend.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (John Doe #86)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20239657.post-9214591293265457797Fri, 04 Jun 2010 02:26:00 +00002010-06-03T19:38:40.239-07:00BP Spill CartoonA commenter on the Humboldt Herald brought this guys cartoons to my attention. Unfortunately, I can't remember who it was.http://saveancientforests.blogspot.com/2010/06/another-bp-spill-cartoon-from-mark.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (John Doe #86)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20239657.post-3345267259494108858Sat, 29 May 2010 06:30:00 +00002010-05-28T23:31:51.484-07:00http://saveancientforests.blogspot.com/2010/05/battle-at-kruger.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (John Doe #86)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20239657.post-4589333810458270786Fri, 28 May 2010 17:52:00 +00002010-05-28T10:54:23.840-07:00The BP spill.http://saveancientforests.blogspot.com/2010/05/what-made-me-start-blogging-again.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (John Doe #86)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20239657.post-5313632497115123852Fri, 28 May 2010 06:05:00 +00002010-05-27T23:51:20.915-07:00Seems like not much has happened on the front lines for years now. Started long before the newspapers pronounced the timber wars over , tree sitters came down (for photo ops), and talking head enviros started saying "old-growth logging is no longer the issue". Sure, there's been some tree-sits, but if you were here before the mid 2000's you know what I'm talking about. Contrary to the rosy http://saveancientforests.blogspot.com/2010/05/timber-wars-over-or-what.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (John Doe #86)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20239657.post-1581299784321819106Sat, 22 May 2010 17:36:00 +00002010-05-22T11:12:57.367-07:00A threat to Ancient Redwoods along a a short stretch of highway draws the attention of many. Meanwhile, farther north, beauty strips of trees left along the highway barely mask the ongoing plunder occuring daily in our hills. Thousands of acres of Redwoods are clear-cut every year in Humboldt and Del Norte by the Green Diamond Resource Company as the people go about their daily lives and pay http://saveancientforests.blogspot.com/2010/05/richardson-grove.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (John Doe #86)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20239657.post-2750913831779837277Wed, 12 May 2010 04:41:00 +00002010-05-12T10:00:16.325-07:00cascadiasouthern cascadiaDespite what you may have heard ...http://saveancientforests.blogspot.com/2010/05/map-of-cascadia.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (John Doe #86)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20239657.post-8676716798376198194Tue, 11 May 2010 21:33:00 +00002010-05-11T14:33:54.050-07:00He he he ...http://saveancientforests.blogspot.com/2010/05/ooga-booga.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (John Doe #86)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20239657.post-5044671798845437163Tue, 11 Aug 2009 05:11:00 +00002009-08-10T22:38:14.508-07:00The Earth First! Rendezvous and logging road blockades that followed were truly inspiring.This blog will remain mostly dormant for an indefinite period.Meanwhile, look through the archives and check out the links. A lot of the archives have to do with Pacific Lumber, a company that has now gone bankrupt and been purchased by the Fisher family, owners of the GAP clothing chain. Their relatively http://saveancientforests.blogspot.com/2009/08/socasc4ever-cuz-its-not-over.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (John Doe #86)4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20239657.post-3764938491523515188Sun, 17 May 2009 20:19:00 +00002009-05-17T13:35:24.611-07:00check out EF Humboldt and the Earth First! Rendezvous, a yearly gathering of radical Earth defenders sharing skills and having a kick-ass time in the woods.http://saveancientforests.blogspot.com/2009/05/earth-first-still-at-it-in-redwoods.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (John Doe #86)9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20239657.post-1658793767336518071Sat, 11 Apr 2009 16:24:00 +00002009-04-11T09:40:39.872-07:00Ax menforest defensehistory channelloggingI for one think they should get the whole story instead of just the highly glorified version of events. Anyone know if they are still actively filming Ax Men? There's some feral forest friends out there that would really like to know.http://saveancientforests.blogspot.com/2009/04/wanted-location-of-axe-men-film-crew.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (John Doe #86)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20239657.post-5676976944403492668Mon, 16 Mar 2009 00:51:00 +00002009-03-15T18:11:28.475-07:00It turns out that some of the logging glorified on the Ax Men reality show is illegal. I don't watch it, I've seen enough loggers destroying Old-Growth forests in real life. The ads alone are enough to remind me that our forests and rivers, and really our whole planet, are facing a life or death scenario. Either people hold on to their medieval resource plundering mentality and bankrupt the http://saveancientforests.blogspot.com/2009/03/ax-men-tv-show-glorifies-illegal.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (John Doe #86)12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20239657.post-7412341902537232201Mon, 09 Mar 2009 03:12:00 +00002009-03-08T20:44:11.387-07:00Ok, enough hibernation, spring has sprung.At night, I can hear the soft thumps as the rats land on my roof. They launch themselves from the branches of the apricot tree because they want to get inside my attic, into a house with heat.click here for the full story by Susan Straight.photo sourcehttp://saveancientforests.blogspot.com/2009/03/suburbs-going-feral.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (John Doe #86)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20239657.post-8108388250615538614Tue, 09 Dec 2008 03:45:00 +00002008-12-08T19:51:22.894-08:00There's still plenty of good stuff to read in the archives. You can see current logging plans under review in the research links.http://saveancientforests.blogspot.com/2008/12/this-blog-is-hibernating.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (John Doe #86)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20239657.post-2095201974619635741Fri, 17 Oct 2008 16:52:00 +00002008-10-17T20:38:00.228-07:00photo sourceLee and Man Sold Evergreen to the "Worthy Pick Group" out of the British Virgin Islands.Quotes and numbers are from todays Eureka T-S.As the global economic downturn progresses, big timber industry firms with local facilities are now at odds.Green Diamond (GD) and subsidiary California Redwood Co. (CRC) say that Chinese-owned Evergreen Pulp owes them millions of dollars for logs and http://saveancientforests.blogspot.com/2008/10/pulp-friction.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (John Doe #86)6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20239657.post-4661687371443296063Thu, 16 Oct 2008 16:57:00 +00002008-10-17T11:21:16.756-07:00As many have said, the Evergreen pulp mill shut-down will reverberate through our local economy. In the Sept. 5th edition of the Times-Standard, Evergreen's Rex Bohn talked about how the company was installing new machinery to help them split and chip whole tanoak logs for pulp. Green Diamond was hoping to sell them Tanoak logs for which there has previously been little demand.Tanoaks have long http://saveancientforests.blogspot.com/2008/10/evergreen-diamond.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (John Doe #86)3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20239657.post-6857121783093360698Tue, 07 Oct 2008 03:32:00 +00002008-10-06T21:33:06.126-07:00As Earths ecosystems decline so does the economy. One fourth of the worlds mammals face extinction. Our global forests are being leveled. The real costs of industrial processing of natural resources have been externalized for centuries. The Earth is paying the price... and so are we.The generations of the past have stolen from their descendants. It is up to those who are next in line to step up http://saveancientforests.blogspot.com/2008/10/economy-and-ecology-facing-global.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (John Doe #86)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20239657.post-1580373092384556356Tue, 30 Sep 2008 01:41:00 +00002008-09-29T18:54:44.790-07:00the title keeps changing to a hindi script on it's own...*************************************************************************(If you have not already been notified, we apologize for the late notice)Our rallying cry of the last 2 decades "MAXXAM OUT OF HUMBOLDT!" has finally come to pass! You are invited to come and celebrate at what will likely be an amazing reunion!We will gather at Cuneo http://saveancientforests.blogspot.com/2008/09/hurwitz-out-of-humboldt-party.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (John Doe #86)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20239657.post-1706047256085914764Fri, 12 Sep 2008 18:47:00 +00002008-09-14T13:32:28.635-07:00Though different in character from other Action Camps I've attended, this one marks an important milestone in a shifting landscape. Pacific Lumber is no more. Their violently confrontational bully tactics against activists are hopefully gone too. We face a new situation in that other companies, who's logging practices were hidden in the shadow of PL's logging for years, are now receiving http://saveancientforests.blogspot.com/2008/09/ef-action-camp.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (John Doe #86)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20239657.post-5220032128922055668Thu, 31 Jul 2008 02:53:00 +00002008-08-02T09:49:39.321-07:00from- the EF! Humboldt Website. Click on the flier to see the huge version. Here's a report from last years Action Camp.September 17th of this year will mark ten years since the death of David Gypsy Chain. Click here for last years Sept. 17th post.(fixed the action camp link.)http://saveancientforests.blogspot.com/2008/07/earth-first-direct-action-camp-this.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (John Doe #86)3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20239657.post-5630637916164914700Thu, 31 Jul 2008 02:00:00 +00002008-07-30T19:08:16.834-07:00The reorganization of the former Pacific Lumber Company and Scotia Pacific companies is commencing. Forest defenders are watching as events unfold to see if this is the truly the end of Old-Growth logging on these embattled lands.(note: there are now three "Redwood Companies", Mendocino Redwood Company, Humboldt Redwood Company and California Redwood Company- formerly Simpson)http://saveancientforests.blogspot.com/2008/07/humboldt-redwood-company.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (John Doe #86)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20239657.post-6036477225469111811Sun, 27 Jul 2008 18:13:00 +00002008-07-27T11:51:01.720-07:00In-FightingAfter the Maxxam corporation executed a hostile takeover of Pacific Lumber in the early 1980's, Maxxam CEO Charles Hurwitz split the company into several smaller companies. Pacific Lumber (PL aka Palco) owns the town and sawmills. Scotia Pacific (Scopac) owns the land, writes logging plans and sells logs to PL. Now they're in bankruptcy court and the Judge in the case has ruled that http://saveancientforests.blogspot.com/2008/07/pl-subsidiary-resisting-reorganization.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (John Doe #86)7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20239657.post-2877999858159860435Mon, 21 Jul 2008 17:46:00 +00002008-07-21T10:55:29.027-07:00A friend came across this website (www.stopclearcutting.org) on accident while looking for www.stopclearcuttingcalifornia.org"The senseless destruction of creation caused by clearcutting God's forests leads to floods, extinction of species of untold value to the future of humankind, depletion of soils, and ultimately famine and death."http://saveancientforests.blogspot.com/2008/07/christians-against-clearcutting.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (John Doe #86)4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20239657.post-6616704917429372568Wed, 16 Jul 2008 02:50:00 +00002008-07-15T20:41:51.898-07:00I am glad there are firefighters out there protecting people and their dwellings. That's what I think should be focused on, not fires that are burning in wilderness areas. This picture shows the "Siskyous Complex" fire crossing the GO road.The below email was forwarded to me today. Key sentences:"the logging is shaking houses on the property I'm living on many miles away because they are falling http://saveancientforests.blogspot.com/2008/07/hells-half-acre.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (John Doe #86)0