Updates + News
EPIC Saves Big Old Trees
September 21, 2017
Last December, we ventured out into the Klamath National Forest to monitor the Jess Timber Sale to ensure that trees that were marked for logging were consistent with Forest Service decisions and environmental policies. At our first stop in the timber sale, we noticed that dozens of mature trees were marked to be logged in riparian reserves, where they were supposed to be protected. read more >>
EPIC 40th Fall Celebration Features Casey Neill, Alice DiMicele and Joanne Rand
September 16, 2017
You are cordially invited to celebrate forty years of grassroots activism for forest and wildlife protection at the EPIC Fall Celebration on Friday, November 3rd from 6pm-midnight at the Mateel Community Center in Redway, CA. We are very pleased to present musical activists Casey Neill and the Norway Rats, Alice DiMicele and Joanne Rand who will be sure to take us on a trip back in time to the roots of the North Coast environmental movement as we honor Judi Bari with the Sempervirens Lifetime Achievement Award. read more >>
EPIC Victory: Klamath Old-Growth Saved From Logging
September 13, 2017
As you remember (because you read every word that we write, right?), EPIC had submitted an “objection” of the draft decision for the Horse Creek Project, a large scale post-fire logging project on the Klamath National Forest. In our objection, we laid out measures that the Forest Service must take to avoid breaking the law. Here’s the big news: the Forest Service listened! read more >>
A Long Strange Trip: 10 Years of Richardson Grove Defense
September 13, 2017
Last Saturday, EPIC celebrated a strange anniversary: marking 10 years since the first public meeting regarding Caltran’s Richardson Grove project. That equals: 10 years of silence from chainsaws echoing throughout the grove; 10 years without old-growth redwood roots being cut; 10 years without construction and concrete covering the sacred grounds of Richardson Grove State Park. At this moment, 10 years later, we couldn’t be prouder of the inaction we’ve caused. read more >>
Tipping the Scales
August 23, 2017
EPIC recently submitted an objection to the Horse Creek Project— 1,700 acres of post-fire clearcutting in the 2016 Gap Fire footprint. An administrative objection is the way to formally challenge a Forest Service project, prior to litigation. Our lawsuit against the Klamath National Forest, for clearcutting nearly 10,000 acres after the 2014 Westside Fires, has yet to be heard in Federal Court. Both of these timber sales expect to kill or adversely harm salmon and their essential fish habitat. read more >>
Sharon Duggan - Kin to the Earth
August 23, 2017
California’s forest practice rules—often described as the most protective in the nation—largely stem from one woman: Sharon Duggan. Sharon is a one-woman force-of-nature, a potent combination of caring and cunning. For 35 years, Sharon has provided legal muscle to help individuals and grassroots organizations challenge the status quo and preserve our North Coast. She is a kin to the earth. read more >>
Exploring Scattered Public Lands
August 16, 2017
The United States began with a great wealth of fertile farmable land, timberland, and minerals. The young nation devised a number of programs, including the Homestead Act, to settle and develop this huge potential. Over time, most useable land was claimed, and the Bureau of Land Management was formed in 1946 to oversee the remaining land. Susan Nolan, longtime EPIC Supporter and 2010 EPIC Volunteer of the Year has visited some of the scattered tracts of land that the BLM manages throughout the region. read more >>
Logging Threatens Unique Coastal Sitka Spruce Grove
August 8, 2017
A proposed Timber Harvest Plan in Del Norte County near Crescent City threatens to devalue a sensitive and unique grove if coastal Sitka spruce. THP 1-17-034DEL “Hambro” proposes to harvest and substantially degrade the ecological value of 44 acres of mature unique grove of Sitka spruce that has been designated as a special and unique area by the California Coastal Commission and that presently resides in a Coastal Special Treatment Area that calls for special management considerations. read more >>
State Water Board Approves Strictest TMDL in State History
August 8, 2017
The California State Water Resources Control Board has moved to ratify and strengthen conditions in the most stringent Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL) and watershed remediation plan (Action Plan) for remediation ever established in the State. At its August 1, 2017 meeting in Sacramento, the State Water Board ratified the now-15-year-tardy TMDL and Action Plan for the Upper Elk River Watershed, just south of Eureka, California. read more >>
Support New Draft Wilderness Legislation!
August 7, 2017
Take Action! Congressman Huffman has released a draft bill that would help protect 326,000 acres of federal public lands as “wilderness” by expanding nine existing wilderness areas and establishing ten new ones and would designate 485 miles of streams and rivers as “wild and scenic rivers.” View a map with the new proposed wilderness areas below. read more >>
