Underwood Roadless Area Threatened
March 25, 2008
The Six Rivers National Forest recently announced its decision to build a permanent road through the Underwood Roadless area on the Wild and Scenic South Fork Trinity River. The road is proposed specifically to give Sierra Pacific Industries (SPI) cheap access to a landlocked 160 acre parcel containing never logged stands of old growth forest on Underwood Creek.

EPIC Joins Lawsuit Over California's Salmon Rules
February 25, 2008
San Francisco, CA - A coalition of environmental and fishery groups filed suit today in San Francisco Superior Court against the California Department of Fish and Game (DFG), seeking to overturn new regulations that streamline the killing of endangered coho salmon. The groups charge the regulations, adopted by DFG in December 2007, violate the California Endangered Species Act (CESA). The coalition includes the Environmental Protection Information Center (EPIC), Sierra Club and California Trout.

Court Rejects Timber Industry Attack on Threatened Seabird:
February 5, 2008
- A federal district court today rejected the timber industry's latest attack on the marbled murrelet, a small seabird that nests in old-growth trees in the Pacific Northwest. Timber industry lawyers had asked the court to remove Endangered Species Act protections that have been in place since 1992.

Three New Pacific Lumber Reorganization Plans Filed With Bankruptcy
January 31, 2008
January 31, 2008 - Three reorganization plans for the bankrupt Pacific Lumber Company (PL) were filed by yesterday's Court deadline. PL's two largest secured creditor entities each filed separate plans, as did PL itself, amending its earlier proposals. The review process will commence in a Court confirmation hearing in Texas on April 1, 2008.

30th Anniversary Celebration
November 10, 2007
Mateel Community Center, Redway