Please write a letter to help save the Mattole Forest. 450 million dollars has become available for forest and wildlife conservation, thanks to the passage of Proposition 84. Please ask the California Wildlife Conservation Board to use some of this money to purchase Pacific Lumber Company’s Mattole River property. P.L. owns about 18,000 acres in the Mattole River Watershed. This includes around 2,000 acres of  oldgrowth Douglas Fir forest.                                                                                          

       Write to:

Wildlife Conservation Board

http://www.wcb.ca.gov

John P Donnelly, Interim Executive Director

1807 13^th Street, Suite 103

Sacramento, CA 95814

(916) 445-8448

Fax (916) 323-0280

       Sometimes we have action camps, where people learn about what the timber companies are doing in the forest and we have trainings in backwoods techniques, non-violence, climbing, and media. Some activists come  from far places because they have heard that ancient trees are still falling, and endangered species habitat is being destroyed. Some forest defenders are local residents who are fed up with unsustainable logging practices. Some are traveling through and decide to get involved after hearing about us. Once activists are trained, they form into affinity groups that plan actions. There are town actions, backwoods actions, and gate actions. Some backwoods actions are tree-sitting, road-blockading, and free-stating. Tree-sitting invoves setting a climbing rope and some place to sleep, such as aplywood platform, cargo net, or dream-catcher made of parachute cord.