With more than 380,000 acres of land, Simpson Timber Company is the largest corporate logging company on the North Coast and was also the first logging company in California to receive an Habitat Conservation Plan (HCP) to "take" (or kill) a protected species. The company received a permit in 1992 to kill 100 Northern spotted owls during the first 10 years of the HCP, with additional "take" to be authorized in 2002. It is now seeking an Aquatic HCP to cover threatened salmon, salamander, and frog species. There are vast deficiencies in the draft released in 2003, as it proposes to lock into place rules and standards that are wholly ineffective to protect water quality and imperiled species.