Please join us on October 10 in Caspar for AB2494: Where do we go from here? A community discussion and debrief, from 1-4:30 at the Caspar Community Center. The event is co-sponsored by the Redwood Chapter, the Mendocino Trail Stewards, EPIC, and Forests Unlimited. It will feature a talk and Q&A with attorney Melodie Meyer, who led EPIC’s work on AB 2494. It will include a THP Comment Workshop with Rick Coates of Forests Unlimited, who will give us tools for monitoring and co

AB 2494 (Rogers) updates decades-old management objectives for California's demonstration state forests, including the addition of "durable onsite carbon storage and sequestration" (DOCSS) as a co-equal objective alongside biodiversity, wildfire resilience, recreation, and other public benefits.

Great news! AB 2494 made it out of the Assembly Appropriations Committee and is now up for a floor vote at the Assembly level, which will occur by May 29th.

On May 14, EPIC-sponsored legislation AB 2494 that will end the commercial logging mandate in all state forests, including the Jackson Demonstration State Forest, will be heard in its second committee hearing in the California State Legislature. The Assembly Appropriations Committee will vote on the bill, deciding whether it continues the process through the legislature to eventually get signed into law by Governor Newsom.

The Board of Forestry is pushing forward a controversial proposed rule-making under the guise of wildfire risk reduction, which would allow logging and use of heavy equipment—including tractors and dozers—in Watercourse and Lake Protection Zones (WLPZ). This rule-making is a dangerous attempt at deregulation that isn’t backed up by science.

EPIC is currently involved in 7 active lawsuits, 17 coalitions and collaboratives, and countless other environmental advocacy efforts.

From Friday, March 1st to Sunday, March 3rd, three EPIC staff attended the 42nd annual Public Interest Environmental Law...