Sanctuary Forest
In our shared conservation work, there seem to be three dimensions: Activism, Advocacy, and Education. These dimensions are defined by what role an organization plays in a particular campaign, issue, or cause. Involvement in the challenges of environmental protection requires the use of all three of these elements. If we take each one of these individually, we see that each can be extremely useful, relative to its timing. Activism, which takes an immediate approach, indeed will create an immediate effect. Advocacy, in written or spoken support of a desired effect, takes more time but may create longer-term results. Education links activism and advocacy together to create an immediate approach with lasting, long-term results. It is this third dimension that can give great depth and meaning to the important and essential work of protection and preservation of clean water and temperate rain forests. Many environmental organizations just assume that education will be one of the results of Activism and Advocacy, leaving experience to be the teacher. But, think what today would look like if we had spent as much time in our lives as educators as we did as activists and advocates.
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Epic Report
The first few months of the new year have been very busy ones for EPIC, as we work toward comprehensive logging reform on a number of related fronts. We hope to successfully meet the immense challenges ahead of us through a combination of new litigation and sustained public advocacy. EPIC and nearly twenty other conservation, Native American and fisheries organizations filed a sweeping new federal lawsuit on March 1, charging the California Department of Forestry (CDF) and other state officials with violating the Endangered Species Act by approving logging plans that harm Coho salmon. Substantive hearings in the case should begin shortly. In the meantime, we?re still pursuing a challenge to Pacific Lumber Company?s Sustained Yield Plan, a 120-year forest liquidation plan prepared as part of the Headwaters Forest deal.
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