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Here Richard illustrates a bedrock stream channel that had been buried under 14 feet of dirt from road fill Photo: Traci ?Bear? Thiele

This column is being written as the dry summer continues into fall. Large areas of the Mattole River are dry. Just a couple of months ago many of those areas had abundant Coho Salmon fingerlings from last winter's runs. The recent and continuing tragedy in the Klamath River with the loss of over 30,000 large returning salmon spawners, mostly Chinook, weighs heavily on everyone -- especially for the Tribes along the Klamath. In both these instances water quantity and quality are the issues. (read more)


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Organic farmer eliza Barret speaks out against clearcuts and herbicides at a Sacramento rally Photo: Traci "Bear" Thiele

The Heritage Tree Preservation Initiative wasn't able to garner an adequate number of signatures in time for the November 2002 election, but Senator Don Perata is sponsoring Senate Constitutional Amendment 17 to get it on the ballot by way of Legislative action. Funding and a fuller awareness of the importance of the issue are prerequisites for success ? which should be forthcoming in the next year or two. (read more)


Conservation Easements: Last Raps
This is the beginning. This is the end. This is the last in a series of articles about ?conservation easements.? This is the beginning of ?conservation enhancements.? (read more)


The Campaign to Restore Jackson State Redwood Forest
We all have experienced the frustration of trying to stop the annihilation of our redwood forests by timber corporations. Experience continues to teach us that the corporations control the regulation of logging on private lands, defeating every citizen effort to preserve the ecosystems of private forests. (read more)


The Gienger Report...Diggin' In
The last ?Diggin? In? column briefly summarized a broad array of issues ranging from the Mattole conflict over the Pacific Lumber (PL) predation of old-growth fir on highly unstable slopes, to political stonewalling of action by the North Coast Regional Water Quality Control Board on five impaired North Coast watersheds. I also discussed the Redway PL Timber Harvest Plan (THP) 044 temporary settlement. (read more)


Conservation Easements: Direct Action
This column has been primarily concerned with the (read more)


Alliance for Sustainable Jobs and the Environment
More than 150 participants at the Alliance for (read more)


Rainbow Ridge
Logging on Rainbow Ridge in the Mattole has begun. Helicopter fuel trucks have made their run through the gates; the sheriffs with the aid of zealous Fish and Game wardens have been tracking forest defenders in the woods for nearly a month, arresting all they can grab hold of. But resistance continues over the (read more)


Mattole Restoration Council
After twenty years or more of intensive bioregional efforts, the watershed concept seems to have grown strong roots here in the Mattole. People talk about the watershed as the context for education, community planning, their neighbors, and everyday life. (read more)


The Gienger Report...Diggin In
The last "Diggin' In" column covered numerous topics, including the (read more)


Conservation Easements: An International Movement
Conservation Easements: (read more)


The Collapse of the Climate Treaty Negotiations and Forests
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Rainbow Ridge
In this issue, we take a close look at Rainbow Ridge and some of our Affiliate and fiscally sponsored groups that are working to protect that area, which is a critically important biological connector between the coast and Mattole River and South Fork Eel River watersheds. (read more)


Marcus Antonius Was Wrong!
?Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears. I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him. The evil that men do lives after them, The good is oft interred with their bones.? (read more)


Why Would You Intentionally Devalue Your Property?
A member of our community asked this question at a recent meeting on conservation easements and land stewardship hosted by Sanctuary Forest. A wonderful question. (read more)