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6 NORTH COAST JOURNAL • THURSDAY, AUG. 7, 2014 • northcoastjournal.com
Un-entered Forest Accord nears among tree-sitters, timber company and environmentalists on the Mattole By Heidi Walters
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ast week, forest activists partially peeled back a barricade, which has been blocking Humboldt Redwood Co.’s main road into its 8,000-acre Mattole watershed timber holdings since early July, to let a group of foresters, environmentalists and some of their own through to examine an area the company wants to log. And then, after the field trip, the activists agreed to keep the access open to allow in ATVs bearing HRC biologists endeavoring to resolve issues in several timber harvest plans the activists are protesting. HRC agreed, in turn, that if it decides to resume operations on the disputed harvest plans at any time (presumably before resolution is reached), it would give the activists a week’s notice. “We’re going to honor the blockade,” says company president and chief forester Mike Jani. The company also tentatively agreed to limit its herbicide use in some places, and on last Wednesday’s field trip a forester even unmarked some big trees that had
been blue-lined to be cut. Most significantly, HRC agreed to begin refining its old-growth policy by establishing a brandnew designation to preserve at least some of an unusual type of forest rarely found in the historically heavily logged region: “un-entered” forest. It’s a major turning point in a situation that has threatened to undermine the green peace that Humboldt Redwood Co. famously forged with forest activists six years ago when it took over Pacific Lumber Co.’s operations following that company’s death and reorganization. At that time, HRC promised tree-sitters who’d been perched in Palco old growth for three years that the company would protect the ancient ones. Like its parent company, Mendocino Redwood Company, HRC then gained sustainability certification from the Forest Stewardship Council. It voluntarily established old-growth restrictions and set aside “high conservation value” areas to protect old growth stands, including about 200 acres in the Mattole. continued on page 8