 | Landslide that was triggered after steep slope was clearcut - located in the "Hole in Headwaters" |
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Pacific Lumber Company/Maxxam (PL/Maxxam) owns approximately 210,000 acres of forestland, all of which is located in Humboldt County. PL/Maxxam is best known for its scofflaw attitude toward environmental laws, as well as its wanton destruction of the last remaining ancient redwood forests in private hands.
- Pacific Lumber's Record (June 5, 2004)
Lawless Logging Continues
Maxxam/PL has become notorious for violating the law, with a record that includes falsifying evidence to a federal court, hundreds of violations of the law, and losing its timber operating license
- Litigation on Maxxam/Pacific Lumber's State Permit to Kill
The Sustained Yield Plan (SYP) and Incidental Take Permit (ITP) Case
Learn about EPIC's challenge to many of the sacrifices that were established through the infamous Headwaters Deal, including a state permit to kill endangered species.
- Hole in Headwaters
Logging Plan Threatens the new Headwaters Reserve - Find out about THP 520 (aka, the "Hole in the Headwaters)
- State Agency Finds Maxxam/Pacific Lumber To Blame for Financial Woes (May 5, 2005)
Problems From "Deliberate Business Decisions....Not....Regulatory Decisions"
A state agency's extensive analysis of Maxxam/Pacific Lumber's finances was made public today, in which the State Water Resources Control Board (State Board) concludes that the company's predicament "is the ...
- Report from the State Water Resources Control Board on Maxxam/Pacfic Lumber's Financial Problems (April 27, 2005 - 416KB PDF)
This extensive review of Pacific Lumber's finances concludes the company's predicament "is the result of the risky business model that Maxxam has chosen to follow."
- Lawsuit Seeks to Put Brakes on Aggressive Redwood Logging (November 4, 2004)
Controversial Texas Financier Back In Court Again
The Environmental Protection Information Center (EPIC) challenged a series of Maxxam/Pacific Lumber's logging plans in state court today, as well as a 100-year management plan that was approved without publi...
- Insult to Injury: PL Attempts to Axe Fish and Wildlife Protections (April 1, 2004)
In March, Maxxam/Pacific Lumber (PL) announced its plans to change its Habitat Conservation Plan (HCP), seeking to eliminate the very provisions it has been violating all along. These changes would allow it...
- Moment of (In)Decision for Water Quality: Pacific Lumber's Political Pandering Continues to Pay Off (June 1, 2002)
After years of delay, the Regional Water Board refused to take action to prevent further damage from Pacific Lumber's logging operations.
- EPIC's Comments on Proposal to Require Reports of Waste Discharge in Five Watersheds (March 26, 2002 - 316KB PDF)
Describes the authority and obligation for the Regional Water Board to issue "waste discharge requirements" for Pacific Lumber's logging operations
- Grizzly Creek State Park Under Seige (October 4, 1998)
Headwaters Deal Allows Pacific Lumber to Log Thousands of Acres near Park -
EPIC is challenging Maxxam/Pacific Lumber under the federal Clean Water Act, charging that it is illegally discharging sediment and herbicides from ditches, culverts, and other "point sources."
- EPIC's Summary and Critique of the Pacific Lumber Habitat Conservation Plan and Sustained Yield Plan
- Pacific Lumber THPs 1997-1999
- Participants in the EPIC/ Sierra Club Review of the Pacific Lumber HCP/ SYP
