Take Action: PGE Threatens to Cut Bald Eagle Nest Tree…Unless Owners Pay Big PG&E is threatening to shut off power to a landowner unless they agree to let the company cut down a tree with a currently active bald eagle nest. Let them know that their bullying behavior is not welcome in our community. PG&E’s “enhanced vegetation management program” is intended to reduce the wildfire risk associated with its operation of power lines across the state by logging trees adjacent to t

Today, on behalf of the Friends of the Shasta River and Environmental Protection Information Center, the Western Environmental Law Center challenged in federal court the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration National Marine Fisheries Service’s (NMFS) flawed Shasta River safe harbor program. Applied here, the safe harbor program gives legal immunity to a dam owner and water diverters for harming protected species in exchange for scant stewardship practices on private

On the weekend of May 21-22, EPIC sponsored a campout near Ruth to look at recovery from the massive 2020 August Fire, and examine how fire is managed. The 2022 fire campout was a success. Here’s a summary and some pictures. Many people stepped up in large ways and small to help create this event. Kristen Lark, district ranger for the Mad River District of Six Rivers National Forest, went out of her way to ensure the event was legally compliant, keeping us all out of trouble

2018 was EPIC's first year of pulling Scotch broom to protect the Shasta snow wreath from the Shasta-Trinity National Forest use of herbicides. After five years, we have shown that people power is more effective than toxic chemicals. Our efforts have successfully guarded this incredibly rare plant from invasive Scotch broom plants and drift from poisonous glyphosate and aminopyralid. The Shasta snow wreath is so incredibly rare; it is known to grow in only twenty-four locatio

Recently, many landowners on the North Coast have experienced Pacific Gas & Electric’s (PG&E) Enhanced Vegetation Management. In fact, PG&E has been logging wide swaths along their utility power lines on private, state, and federal lands. PG&E claims that clearing trees near their power lines is necessary to prevent wildfires. But landowners feel that PG&E has far too much discretion in deciding whether to remove trees and frequently takes trees that were in no danger of comi

On May 28th, CAL FIRE released its weekly report documenting the status of all Timber Harvest Plans (THPs) in California. The Save Jackson Coalition was pleased to learn that three controversial THPs located in Jackson Demonstration State Forest (JDSF) had been withdrawn. The plans constitute a total of 1479 acres (over 2 square miles) of forest now taken off the chopping block. As part of the larger campaign to change the management plan of JDSF, the Mitchell Creek THP, Litt