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15 May, 2013
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Come to the Redwood Coast Rendezvous June 14-18 2013

Tags : blockade training climb training direct action summer camp earth first!earth first! humboldt redwood coast rendezvous skill share stop old growth logging strawberry rock tree sit willits bypass

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Redwood Coast Rendezvous 2013

by EF!Humboldt ~ May 10th, 2013

Come on out to the mountains of Humboldt County for this years Redwood Coast Rendezvous June 14th-18th.

This summer looks like a hot one for direct action against extraction across the continent!

Consequently, we’ll be focusing on skill sharing and training in order to spread the knowledge of practical blockading techniques, technical rope climbing, more direct action techniques and campaign organizing.

In the Redwood region alone there are two ongoing direct action campaigns.

In Willits, the California Highway Patrol and their riot squad can’t keep the Little Lake Valley Defenders down as tree-sits continue to go up in the path of destruction planned for the new Highway 101 bypass around the town and through ancient trees and wetlands.

In northern Humboldt, the the tree-sitters are holding strong in some of the oldest and largest Redwoods in the Trinidad area as Green Diamonds logging echoes down from the hills.

Redwood Coast Rendezvous schedule and location TBA soon.

or Email: contactefhum@gmail.com

via Earth First! Humboldt.

12 March, 2013
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No Clearcuts Near Strawberry Rock! Green Diamond Needs to Protect More than a Pittance of Trinidad's Famous Forest

Tags : culturally significant strawberry rock tree sit trinidad trinidad bay

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As the issue of Green Diamond's proposed 85 acre clearcut goes before the Trinidad City Council tonight, the determination of the community that has risen up to defend Strawberry Rock's forest is stronger than ever. The demand is simple: cancel the Strawberry Rock THP and turn the 1 square mile around the Rock into a community forest that will never be clearcut or developed.

So far, Green Diamond has only responded with the bare minimum offer: leave the Rock and the trail to it alone, as well as 27 acres of forest adjacent to the trail. This offer does not go nearly far enough in preserving the historic character of the area's 100-year-old temperate rainforest. The right thing for Green Diamond to do is to place ALL of Strawberry Rock's forests into a conservation easement, so that it may become Trinidad's next old growth forest.

The fact is, there is a very strong case that the public already has a legal entitlement to access Strawberry Rock. This fact turns Green Diamond's "offer" to protect the trail to the rock, the rock itself, and an additional 27 acres into a legal obligation rather than a gift.

California's laws on public easements and right of way makes it so that we, the people, have the absolute legal right to access Strawberry Rock, and hike the trail to do so. The fact that Green Diamond has done nothing to prevent the public from accessing the Rock in their 20+ years of ownership means even if they started arresting people tomorrow, they would have no leg to stand on in court. The public currently holds a prescriptive easement to the trail and the Rock.

The 27 acres they "offered" the public at February's public meeting is required by their own voluntary certification standards of retaining 27% of a given THP. Further, they have no right to "give" the public what is rightfully theirs–public right of way to Strawberry Rock has existed long before Green Diamond ever acquired the Trinidad property.

If Green Diamond truly wishes to be a generous member of the community, they need to give more than simply the bare minimum required by law and their certification standards.