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California/Pacific Northwest Frontline Sources & Recent Reports

• Forest defenders always have their hands full. For latest stories from northern California, Indymedia is a fabulous independent news source online:
  www.sf.indymedia.org/features/forest/
• North Coast Earth First! is at the front lines of defending our ancient trees. Visit their news group.
• Learn about John Quigley's Old Glory tree-sit in Los Angeles
• Read about the Red Hill tree-sit in Ontario, Canada
• Headwaters Action Video Collective often has good footage of what's happening in northern California now. See vivid details in their web presentation The Stumps of Avalon (Dec. 2002).
• Read our mid-December 2002 Humboldt County update on ongoing tree-sits, and find out what you can do to help.

Forest Defense Archives

To view past articles and links, visit our archives.

Forest Defense All Over the World

In 2002, Julia Butterfly was arrested in Ecuador in an effort to protect the Amazon rainforest. Activists are working there to prevent an international consortium from punching an oil pipeline through fragile indigenous forest land.

Forest Links

(thanks to SF Indymedia for many of the current listings)

Northern California Organizations & Media

• Sanctuary Forest guardian of Luna
• Mattole Defense direct action
• Earth Films photos and streaming videos
• Headwaters Action Video Collective documentary films
• Freshwater Treesit Remedy's Blog
• Judi Bari & Earth First! v. FBI/OPD Judi Bari and Darryl Cherney federal civil rights lawsuit
• Klamath-Siskiyou Wildlands Center
• Environmental Protection Information Center incl. Headwaters Forest Slide Show
• Bay Area Coalition for Headwaters Headwaters Forest
• Salmon Forever Northcoast Forest Science Data
• Headwaters Forest Defense vs. County of Humboldt and City of Eureka Pepper Spray Case
• Save Jackson State Forest Mendocino County
• YubaWatershed - Sierra Nevada grassroots group dealing with Sierra Pacific Industries
• North Coast Earth First! Headwaters Forest action
• Forests Forever protecting California's forests
• OtterMedia pictures
• Rainforest Action Network The redwood forests of California are in fact temperate rainforests
• Save the Redwoods League Buying redwood forest land to protect it
• Sempervirens Fund Preserving redwoods lands since 1900
• John Muir Project of Earth Island Institute, to protect national forests from logging
• Sierra Club action for trees
• California Wilderness Coalition a voice for wild California

Maxxam Background Info

• Maxxam Board of Directors named one of the worst by Fortune
• Palco after the Maxxam takeover (IWW)
• Charles Hurwitz Maxxam CEO
• Photo exhibit (Corporate Watch)
• Pacific Lumber Company

Pacific Northwest Forest Information

• Portland IMC Forest Activism News
• Tree-sit.org News, info, and open publishing
• Cascadia Forest Alliance News and info
• Cascadia Summer 2003 campaign website
• Mazama Forest Defense Klamath-Siskiyou bioregion
• Umpqua Watersheds Info about the southern Oregon river basin
• The Forest Voice Quarterly Journal re: resource extraction on public lands
• Trees Foundation
• Wild Wilderness
• Ecoecho the forest action community of Eugene, Oregon
• Greenwood Watershed Association the GAP boycott and other Mendocino Coast news
• Jim Britell’s “Usual Suspect” Series advice on grassroots forest activism
• Legacy—the Landscape Connection
• Headwaters Environmental Center of Ashland Oregon
• Oregon Natural Resources Council
• Mendicino Environmental Center (MEC)
• EarthJustice Legal Defense Fund
• Plight of the Redwoods a unique presentation by California forest activists and tree-sitters
• Executive summary of the Water Quality Staff Final Report Headwaters Forest details

National Forest Defense Groups

• American Forests
• National Forest Protection Alliance
• We Save Trees