The Humboldt County Board of Supervisors will discuss whether to support AB 2494 at its regular Board meeting on April 21, 2026. AB 2494 (Rogers) is a bill sponsored by EPIC to modernize management over Demonstration State Forests statewide. Make a public comment in person or virtually at the Supervisor’s meeting on April 21, 2026. The agenda and the Zoom meeting link will be posted on the County website

The sweeping restructuring of the United States Forest Service represents one of the most dramatic reorganizations of a federal land management agency in the nation's history, placing 193 million acres of public land at risk.

EPIC and the Save Richardson Grove Coalition recently lost at the California Court of Appeals. This stings.

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!

On March 23, at 2:30 p.m., EPIC’s sponsored legislation AB 2494 that will end the commercial logging in the Jackson Demonstration State Forest, will be heard in its first committee meeting in the California State Legislature.

National Forests around the country have been instructed to “get the cut out” and maximize timber production. Simultaneously, the climate emergency and the decades of science supporting the role forest ecosystems play in sustaining life on earth is no longer given consideration.