PRESS RELEASE Today, on behalf of the Friends of the Shasta River and the Environmental Protection Information Center (EPIC), the Western Environmental Law Center notified the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) of the groups’ intent to challenge its flawed Shasta River safe harbor program in federal court. The NMFS safe harbor program provides legal immunity for harming protected species in exchange for stewardship pract

Join us on Friday, March 18th, from 12:00-2:00 PM, for our Spring Equinox Ivy Pull in Trinidad State Park. Get your gardening muscles ready for spring by helping out our beautiful coastal forests! Sign up here! Why is this important? This aggressive plant takes over the understory by outcompeting our native plants. The loss of our native plant species also affects wildlife. They lose the native food sources that they depend on, such as salal berries, huckleberries, trilliums,

Our mature and old growth are some of our most powerful climate solutions. But these forests are still being logged when they should be set aside for carbon storage, wildlife habitat, and clean water. We need the Biden administration to understand that forest defense is climate defense! When we protect our older forests from logging, we both reduce greenhouse gas emissions and ensure these forests continue to store vast amounts of carbon —a win-win climate change solution! Ou

EPIC—together with our partners, Humboldt Baykeeper, the Northcoast Environmental Center, the Coalition for Responsible Transportation Priorities, Surfrider Foundation, 350 Humboldt North Group of the Redwood Chapter of the Sierra Club, and Save California Salmon—filed a joint comment on the draft environmental impact report for the proposed onshore recirculating aquaculture system (a.k.a., the “fish farm”) put forward by Nordic Aquafarms. The Lost Coast Outpost published a w

Wolves in Northern Rockies still face brutal slaughter Today, a federal court restored Endangered Species Act protections for the gray wolf after they were eliminated by the Trump administration in 2020. The ruling orders the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to resume recovery efforts for the imperiled species. Today’s decision redesignates the gray wolf as a species threatened with extinction in the lower 48 states with the exception of the Northern Rockies population (map), f

The "Region 5 Post-Fire Hazard Tree Project" is the Forest Service’s newest attempt to bypass meaningful environmental impact analysis. The project proposes to cover nine National Forests ranging across the state that were impacted by recent fires and would allow for the removal of thousands of acres of forest along the roadside, with little site-specific environmental review for the stated purpose of removing “hazard trees.” There is some justification for the project. Snags

Those of you who have been following the fight to save Jackson Demonstration State Forest may be wondering if there is anything tangible you can do to make your opposition to logging in this special place heard. Well, now you can! Do you live in California’s 2nd District? Help us send a message to Senator McGuire, Assembly Member Wood, and Congressman Huffman! We need our representatives to demand an immediate moratorium on logging in the Jackson Demonstration State Forest (J