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

On Friday, Governor Newsom vetoed AB 2494 (Rogers), our bill to modernize the management of state-owned “demonstration forests.” Under existing law, these public lands are to be managed for “maximum sustained production” of timber products, while only “giving consideration” to other management values, like recreation, biodiversity, research, and wildfire resilience.

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.

We did it! AB 2494 made it out of its final Legislative Committee (Senate Appropriations) and is now up for a final floor vote at both the Assembly and Senate level, which will occur by August 31st.

On July 1, 2026, the Senate Natural Resources and Water Committee voted to pass AB 2494 (Rogers) with a 5 - 2 partisan split.

Next week AB 2494 (Rogers) will be heard and voted on by the Senate Natural Resources and Water Committee. The hearing will start at 9 AM on July 1, 2026, and will be held at the State Capitol in Room 113, 1315 10th St, Sacramento, CA 95814.

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.