Green Diamond Resource Company, one of the largest industrial timber companies in California and one of the primary private owners of redwood forests, has applied for a Habitat Conservation Plan (HCP) for marbled murrelets under the Endangered Species Act.

Today, conservation groups and a fishing guide filed suit in federal court in San Francisco to challenge the Trump administration’s new interpretation of the Endangered Species Act (ESA) that “harm” to species does not include destroying their habitat. The decision reverses 50 years of bipartisan agreement that protecting species’ habitat is at the heart of the ESA and, without it, many species will go extinct.

The Trinity Divide/Lakehead Fuel Break Project proposes to remove up to 60–70% of the forest canopy from nearly 2,000 acres within a 2,538-acre project area in Northern California without a full environmental review. This area is a globally recognized biodiversity hotspot and a primary wildlife corridor surrounded by heavily logged private timberlands.

The U.S. Forest Service is rushing salvage logging into one of northern California's most biologically rare watersheds, under a legal shortcut that bypasses environmental review.

On March 23rd, legislation sponsored by EPIC and authored by Asm. Chris Rogers passed out of its first legislative committee, the Assembly Natural Resources Committee.

Tell the Mendocino Board of Supervisors to send a letter of support in favor of AB 2494 to the State Legislature!

Today, the Forest Service has taken the next step in rescinding the Roadless Rule, potentially making 4.4 million acres of old growth forests, rivers, and wildlife in California vulnerable to industrial logging and road development.