EPIC's National Forest Program Racks Up Victories
Need a little good news this dreary season? EPIC's national forest program has been part of a few heartening victories in recent months, halting some needlessly destructive projects on our public lands.
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Trees Foundation: A Growing Network Of Community Action
Since 1991 Trees Foundation has been assisting and supporting grassroots conservation and restoration groups along California's North Coast. Trees has empowered community-based activism by providing professional and technical services, free of charge, that are often difficult to obtain in rural areas, or prohibitively expensive for lean organizations focused on issues critical to the revival of North Coast wildlands and imperiled ecosystems.
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Protecting Forests In The Shasta-Trinity Watersheds
The Conservation Congress formed in February 2004 to specifically focus forest watch activities on the Shasta-Trinity National Forest in northern California. We targeted the Shasta-Trinity because it seems to receive less public scrutiny than some of the other National Forests in the region. Our Forest Monitoring Program on the "Shasta T" includes commenting on timber sales, road construction, hazardous fuel reduction, and wildlife habitat improvement projects. We expect to see an increase in logging on this forest due to the recent gutting of the Northwest Forest Plan.
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Thinking Like A Mountain: Wilderness Stewardship In Northern California
The California Wilderness Legacy Project was formed in 2003 to address a growing need to educate both wilderness visitors and the general public in the protection and stewardship of our state and federal wilderness areas.
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