Press Releases

2009

Botched Logging Around Orleans

EPIC Joins Global Day of Climate Change

Agency Proposal Leaves Threatened Coho with Dry Riverbeds

Coalition of Environmental Groups Call for Ouster of Appointee from State Forestry Board

Groups Sue to Protect North Coast Rivers and Fisheries


2008

California Supreme Court Sides with Environmentalists in Decades-Long Forest Dispute

Emergency Petition Filed to Protect Imperiled Salmon

Mendocino Redwood Company to Assume Control of Pacific Lumber

Underwood Roadless Area Threatened

EPIC Joins Lawsuit Over California’s Salmon Rules

Court Rejects Timber Industry Attack on Threatened Seabird

Three New Pacific Lumber Reorganization Plans Filed with Bankruptcy


2007

EPIC’s 30th Anniversary Celebration

EPIC Marks Third Decade of Forest and Watershed Advocacy

Timber Industry Uses Draft Bush ESA Regulations

Citizen Suit Prompts Settlement of Pulp Mill Pollution

Court Rules Rare Salamanders Were Illegally Denied Protection Under ESA


2006

Federal Court Upholds Protections for Roadless Forests

Habitat Protections for Threatened Marbled Murrelet Slashed

Conservation Groups Challenge Fish & Game Refusal to Protect Recently Discovered Salamander

Regional Water Board Adopts Cutting-Edge Water Quality Protections

Court Ruling Opens Forest Service Fire Planning to Public

Habitat of Newly Discovered Salamander Species Slated for Logging

EPIC Inquiry on Disclosure Sent to Realtors in Maxxam Land Liquidation

Citizen Lawsuit Filed Against Evergreen’s Humboldt Bay Pulp Mill


2005

Community Appeals to Pacific Lumber to Halt Logging at Nanning Creek

Groups Notify Evergreen Pulp Mill of Intent to File Suit

Maxxam/Pacific Lumber Slapped with Logging Violation Notice

Federal Agency Reaffirms Pacific Lumber’s Flawed Habitat Conservation Plan

Pacific Lumber Mounts Last-Minute Attack on Public Hearing Process

Petition Filed in Court for Air Quality Board to Halt Pulp Mill Pollution

Beginning of the End-Game for Maxxam in Humboldt County

Judge Upholds Protection for Old-Growth Forests

EPIC to Defend Order Limiting Timber Harvest in Damaged Watersheds

Forest Service Rush to Log Hits Snag

New Species of Salamander Found in Siskiyou Mountains

Federal Court Halts Klamath Old-Growth Logging

State Agency Finds Maxxam/Pacific Lumber to Blame for Financial Woes

Fisheries Service to Protect Green Sturgeon in Sacramento River, Refuses to Extend Protection to Klamath Basin