Judge to Strike Down Maxxam's Logging Plan: EPIC Victory Close at Hand

	Headwaters Forest Photo: Dean Rimmerman

"This is extortion!" exclaimed Cecelia Lanman, former Programs Director of EPIC, in February 1999. She was quickly escorted from the California State Capitol, and the legislature called its first vote on the infamous Headwaters Deal. It failed. After missing its legal deadline to pass the bill, the legislature "stopped the clock" at midnight, and Maxxam Corporation's lobbyists scurried to the hallways to secure the additional votes it needed. A second vote passed the Headwaters Deal into law, seeming to seal the fate of more than 210,000 acres of land. (read more)

6th Annual Coho Confab
Join Trees Foundation, the Salmonid Restoration Federation, and Jughandle Creek Farm at the Farm on the Mendocino Coast for the 6th annual Coho Confab, to be held August 22-24.The theme for this year's Confab is "From the Classroom to the Field; From the Estuary, Upstream." Trees Foundation believes that community participation and cooperation (not to mention getting your hands a bit dirty) nurtures vibrant watersheds for all residents and "spawns" new and creative ways to bring back the Coho. (read more)

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