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Maxxam/Pacific
Lumber Nails Order To Vacate To Trees
Order Against Tree-Sitters Starts Clock Ticking
for Possible PL Action
FRESHWATER WATERSHED-In an area where there are at least 18 tree-sits occupied
by activists protesting Maxxam/Pacific Lumber's (PL) unsustainable logging,
an order to vacate within 24 hours was posted on trees PL believes to be occupied
today. The posting at about 4 pm on Wednesday presumably starts the
clock ticking for PL to move to evict the tree-sitters.
The Order To Show Cause Re. a Preliminary Injunction and Temporary Restraining
Order (TRO) was granted by Humboldt County Superior Court judge Dale Reinholtsen
on Monday March 10. The order names tree-sitters Remedy, Wren and Does 1-200,
and all persons working in concert with them.
In addition to ordering them to remove their persons and personal property
from the trees they occupy within 24 hours, they have until March 19 to file
any opposition to the order, and to appear at a hearing in Eureka on March
24. The TRO expires on March 21.
The TRO is based on a SLAPP suit (Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation)
that PL filed against tree-sitters last August. Freshwater is not the
only area on PL property where forest defenders are sitting in trees. There
have been on-going tree-sits and other protests as well as other campaign
activity such as agency petitioning and acquisition strategies in the Mattole
watershed and on Gypsy Mountain, where David Gypsy Chain was killed by an
angry logger in 1998.
Freshwater watershed has become the flashpoint because PL has been given the
green light to log in unstable areas without waste discharge permits despite
severe flooding, debris torrents and sedimentation of streams. The Regional
Water Quality Board gave PL the go-ahead on February 27, despite compelling
testimony from eminent scientists that the degradation in water quality is
tied to increased rate of cut allowed under the Headwaters deal HCP and SYP.
(Habitat Conservation Plan and Sustained Yield Plan).
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