Audio segments from Trees Radio Hour! Interview with Vince Taylor, Executive Director of the Campaign To Restore Jackson State Forest December, 2003 Four years of legal successes have revoked an illegal Environmental Impact Report and voided the destructive forest management plan. Vince Taylor discusses a visionary bill supported by CRJSF that is progressing through the California legislature to reform Jackson State Forest management.

The Campaign to Restore Jackson State Redwood Forest is working to stop destructive logging in California's largest State Forest - the 50,000-acre Jackson State Demonstration Forest in Mendocino County. Acquired by the state in l947 to demonstrate that second growth redwood could be logged profitably, Jackson Forest is an island of public land in the midst of a half-million acres of devastated industrial timberland. The Campaign to Restore Jackson State Redwood Forest believes it is time to redirect the management focus of this forest. Using outreach, education, research, and litigation, our goal is to motivate people and government officials, locally and statewide, to restore this impaired public redwood habitat for the benefit of endangered and threatened species and for recreation and education.


Hope for Jackson State Forest

	Braving the rain on a Campaign hike to old-growth trees in lesser-known Dresser Grove, Jackson Sate Forest. Photo: Vinve Taylor

Until this year, all efforts to get the state to reform management of Jackson State Forest ran up against a stone wall. The state refused to give up the $10-15 million in annual profits it was reaping from large-scale logging of the public forest. Now after four years of losing lawsuits, growing public protests and, most importantly, court orders halting all timber production, the wall appears to have finally crumbled. The prospects for meaningful reform are brighter than ever before. (read more)

Board of Forestry Rejects Jackson Forest Advisory Group Consensus
December 19, 2011
Even for a body famous for doing the wrong thing, the Board of Forestry sank to new lows in its treatment of the unanimous consensus recommendations of the Jackson Forest Advisory Group. (read more)


A New Future for Jackson State Forest
April 25, 2011
The Campaign to Restore Jackson State Redwood Forest has worked since 2000 to reform management of California's 48,000-acre redwood forest located in Mendocino County. January 15, 2011 marked a momentous milestone in the campaign. (read more)


Jackson Advisory Group Nears Draft of Recommendations
May 11, 2010
The Jackson Advisory Group (JAG) was appointed by the Director of CAL FIRE, with the concurrence of the Board of Forestry, in April of 2008. The Group was given a broad charter to review the management plan for 50,000-acre Jackson Demonstration State Forest in Mendocino County and to recommend changes to the Director and Board of Forestry. (read more)


Natural Forestry Progressing for Jackson Forest?
August 19, 2009
In the previous update, I reported that the Jackson Advisory Group (JAG) was considering "Natural Forestry" for Jackson State Forest. Since that time, the concept of Natural Forestry has evolved and appears to be making headway as the preferred management approach. (read more)


Will Natural Forestry Become the New Forestry for Jackson Forest?
April 15, 2009
I last reported on Jackson Forest developments in the middle of 2008. I skipped the year-end update because it seemed that a holding pattern had developed, and there was not significant new news. There are now developments worth reporting. (read more)


The Final Chapter
September 2, 2008
In 2000, the Campaign to Restore Jackson State Redwood Forest (the Campaign) filed suit to halt logging in Jackson State Forest. Over the next eight years, legal actions or the threat of legal actions compelled the Department of Forestry (formerly abbreviated as CDF, now CalFire) to refrain from any logging and to develop a new management plan and accompanying environmental documents. Finally, in January of 2008, a new management plan for Jackson State Forest was approved, with the support of the Campaign. (read more)


Campaign to Restore Jackson State Redwood Forest
December 10, 2007
Management reform for Jackson Forest is moving forward ever so slowly, but it is moving. (read more)


Campaign to Restore Jackson State Redwood Forest
April 24, 2007
I reported in the last issue of Branching Out that all of the important interest groups now agree that Jackson State Forest, our publicly owned 50,000-acre redwood forest, should be managed for broad public benefit. (read more)


Campaign to Restore Jackson State Redwood Forest: Reform Efforts Turn the Corner
November 15, 2006
After six years of education, and five years with no timber harvests, the idea that our publicly owned 50,000-acre redwood forest--Jackson State Forest--should be managed for broad public benefit has become widely accepted. The Department of Forestry, the Board of Forestry, and even the industrial timber interests in Mendocino County are now saying publicly that Jackson Forest should be managed for research, restoration, recreation, and education--exactly what the Campaign has been recommending since 2000. (read more)


Campaign to Restore Jackson State
April 5, 2006
The public comment period on the long-delayed revised Environmental Impact Report (EIR) for Jackson State Forest ended on March 1, 2006, with public comments topping 6,000. (read more)


Campaign To Restore Jackson State Forest
September 20, 2005
Logging in 50,000-acre Jackson State Redwood Forest (Mendocino County) continues to be halted by court order. The California Department of Forestry (CDF) is now in its second year of efforts to revise the Environmental Impact Report (EIR) for Jackson State Forest to remedy deficiencies found by the court. According to CDF, the revised draft report is nearing completion. Although no date for release is yet fixed, CDF and Board of Forestry staff have indicated that the administrative draft of the report will be released unofficially to the public and Board members in the last half of July. (read more)


Campaign To Restore Jackson State Forest
April 4, 2005
The Campaign to Restore Jackson State Forest won a lawsuit in 2003 that continued to prevent the planned massive logging of Jackson Forest. In 2004, Senator Wesley Chesbro introduced a bill to reform management of Jackson Forest. This bill passed both the California Senate and the Assembly, only to be vetoed by the governor in September. (read more)


Campaign To Restore Jackson State Forest: Governor Vetoes Jackson Forest Reform Bill
December 8, 2004
Despite receiving over 3,000 letters urging him to sign Senator Chesbro's state forest reform bill, SB 1648, Governor Schwarzenegger vetoed it on September 16, 2004. (read more)


Campaign To Restore Jackson State Forest
September 6, 2004
Update on the Campaign to Restore Jackson State Redwood Forest (read more)


The Campaign to Restore Jackson State Redwood Forest
May 1, 2001
We all have experienced the frustration of trying to stop the annihilation of our redwood forests by timber corporations. Experience continues to teach us that the corporations control the regulation of logging on private lands, defeating every citizen effort to preserve the ecosystems of private forests. (read more)


Where We Are & Where Came From
The struggle to reform the management of Jackson State Forest may someday serve as a textbook example of how persistent, effective public pressure can force the government to shift from narrow, parochial interests to broad public interests. (read more)



Contact Information

Email: restore@jacksonforest.com
Web Site: www.jacksonforest.com
Phone: (707) 937-3001
P.O. Box 1789 244 North Main Street Fort Bragg, CA 95437