Campaign to Save Headwaters Forest from 1986-1999. I moved to Humboldt County in the spring of 1997, and almost immediately found myself...

Legacy trees, i.e. old growth snags and live trees are defined as disproportionately large diameter trees that are often remnants of the...

The Westside salvage logging project on the Klamath National Forest (KNF) is having more than severe ecological costs. The Forest Service...

Flooding of Elk River Arcata, Calif. – The Environmental Protection Information Center (EPIC), the Pacific Coast Federation of...

Mixed-severity fire, like that shown, provides functional habitat for northern spotted owls. Photo credit, Scott Harding. Private...

Such seems to typify the plight of the northern spotted owl in California, a species in precipitous decline with no voice to defend...

In the late 1980s, before the Northwest Forest Plan, loggers were pulling 4.5 billion board feet of timber out of federal forests within...

Aerial view of Green Diamond clearcut. If a timber harvesting permit is approved illegally, and no one is watching, does the landowner...

The coastal redwood forests are considered part of the larger temperate rainforest system that once blanketed the coast of the Pacific...

Union of Concerned Scientists, staff from major federal agencies tasked with protecting our health and environment believe that too often...

The Mendocino Central Coast Waste Transfer Station Project would have taken 12.6 acres from Russian Gulch State Park, which contains...

Source: Lost Coast Outpost. According to local Angela Tellez who took the photo, “It floods like this at least once a year, though this...

Fieldtrip to Mattole THP’s with HRC Nestled in a remote valley that drains to California’s famous Lost Coast, the Mattole River watershed...

Extensive Green Diamond Clearcuts in Little River Watershed Introduction Habitat integrity and connectivity for species movement,...

EPIC submitted a reclassification petition for the northern spotted owl to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service on August 15, 2012. Today’s...

The Humboldt Marten (martes caurina humboldtensis) is a stealthy, cat-sized forest carnivore in the weasel family (related to minks and...

On appearance alone, the marbled murrelet doesn’t appear to be very remarkable. The murrelet is a small seabird mottled with streaks of...

The Pacific fisher faces many threats to its survival and conservation. From logging to roads, stand-replacing wildfires and...

EPIC’s Northern Spotted Owl Self-defense Campaign has sought to achieve enhanced protections for the owl in California and beyond. Given...

As part of our efforts to see the spotted owl listed as either a “threatened” or “endangered” species under the California Endangered...