Here are comments from members concerning the
Battle Creek watershed restoration issue:
Battle
Creek Comment: Re: Battle Creek
clearcutting
Battle Creek Comment: I am asking you to
consider more facts before allowing Sierra
Pacific to do more checkerboard clearcut
logging in my local area for 3 reasons:
(1) Have you information on how much loss
of species diversity will result? Right now,
on Mount Lassen’s flanks, there are 6
different types in this mixed coniferous
forest: (1) Sugar Pines, (2) White Firs, (3)
Incense Cedars, (4) Dougas Firs, (5)
Ponderosa Pines, and (6) Kellogg’s Black Oak
trees. In the natural world, diversity is
wealth. SP’s goal of stripping this diversity
and replacing it with Ponderosa pine
plantations which can be harvested like wheat
may have an affect on survival of natural
forests and the populations they support.
Clear cutting forests above the special
Battle Creek Salmon spawning restoration
effort equals introduciong a fragmented
forest upstream from this critical salmon
spawning project.
Fragmented forests are weakened forests.
Prior to logging the creeks were more
effective nurseries for salmon either
spawning or sheltering prior to heading out
to the ocean.
(2) Have you considered the cumulative
affects on soil productivity and soil loss
should a pulse event storm occur (a big,
major storm more powerful than weathermen
could predict) example a 100 year event
thunderstorm could send the type erosion into
Battle Creek feeder streams like the big
storm on the Russian River decades ago that
sent silt filling in all the creeks next to
logging roads of dirt that muddied up and
ruined the creeks for salmon fingerlings to
survive.
(3) Have you considered the possibility of
the affect on the understory species like
dogwood and coffeeberry (that grow beneath
sugar pine, white fir, incense cedar, doug
fir, and kellogg’s black oak and the wildlife
bird, mammal and insect life that are nursed
from birth amongst these
bushes and smaller trees growing beneath
the Sierra Nevada Mixed coniferous forest
that would be clear cut by SP?
Salmon are now endangered as a res ult of
loss of habitat…would you consider
carefully all the evidence prior to allowing
business? I reside in Shasta County just
25miles from the clear cutting south of
Highway 44, above Battle Creek Watershed.
Mary Martha
Weidert
Battle Creek Comment: my family has owned
a cabin in Calaveras county for over 10
years. We love the mountain and count our
blessings to be able to come to the forest
and enjoy it. But over the last few years we
have gotten increasingly disturbed by the
clear cutting that is allowed on the
mountain. Just this week I witnessed truck
after truck thundering down Highway 4 loaded
with felled trees. Evidently since it was a
long winter they are hurrying to cut as much
as they can before the snow comes again.
Governor, have you seen what the clear
cutters are doing to the Sierra? It is
heartbreaking, an environmental atrocity of
epic proportions. How can this be? How can
the most progressive state in the union, in
the most developed country in the world,
condone and allow this practice? We are
horrified and appalled when developing
countries like Brazil allow the destruction
of their rain forests for short term economic
gain. Governor, it is happening right here,
right now, in our own natural wonder. The
State stewards the forest on behalf of our
citizens. You cannot sit idly by while Sierra
Pacific Industries destroys acre after acre
of our forests. Please, please, please –
suspend their clear cutting licenses and
create a commission to define and enforce
responsible logging across our entire state.
Soon, it will be too late. There will be
nothing left to save.
Victoria
Coleman
Battle Creek Comment: Stop the destruction
of the Battle Creek watershed through
thoughtless clear cutting.
Chuck
Hammerstad
Battle Creek Comment: The Calif
government, with your lead, is doing a
wonderful job by supporting Salmon
restoration on Battle Creek near the Trinity
Alps. But by allowing SPI to clear cut this
watershed at the same time is rather like
having one surgeon repair your right hand
while another cuts off the arm at the
shoulder. Please: stop this nonsense now, and
stop the clearcutting.
Richard
Montgomery
Battle Creek Comment: Twenty-five years
ago I became aware of the horrifying
clearcutting that has ruined acres of
California and the herbicide use that
continues to cause problems. Isn’t this
enough time to have learned that these
policies are more damaging than ever.
Lois
Robin
Battle Creek Comment: If this information
about clearcutting at Battle Creek is true,
as I believe it is, it is horrible policy.
Please do everything you can to stop this
degradation of our precious environment and
resources.Ted
Benhari
Battle Creek Comment: Dear Gov. Brown and
Secretary Laird: Please do not allow SPI to
continue to liquidate California’s rich
forest resources at the expense of wildfire
and communities. I urge you to act to impose,
at minimum, a moratorium on clearcutting in
the Sierra Nevada. It is long overdue.
Katherine
Evatt
Battle Creek Comment: Gov. Brown, THIS IS
something for which you should STAND UP and
STOP. Clear-cutting is so retro and that
isn’t your projected campaign image. STOP
THIS INSANITY, PLEASE !!!!
V L
Whiteside
Battle Creek
Comment: Is the Lookout THP in the Battle
Creek watershed just another example of
corporate America wagging the government tail
of California, or is it simply inept
government handling of the public trust?
I live in Grass
Valley and appreciate the need for well
managed timber harvests, but no matter how
it’s viewed…the Lookout THP approval
process was flawed and needs to be
reexamined. I’m also curious where the milled
lumber will be ultimately used.
John
Boyd
Battle Creek
Comment: please stop clear-cutting in the
battle creek watershed area, before there is
no salmon areas where the salmon can spawn
at, please bind the sierra pacific land
companies projects til a thorough
investigation of the environment issue can be
looked at
.gloria
jimenez
Battle Creek
Comment: California allowing timber clear
cutting where it is funding watershed
restoration does not make sense. Clear
cutting a forest is horrifying. It is death
multiplied many times over and spreads out
and over the landscape into every aspect of
the atmosphere and environment. Such an
arrogant abuse is incomprehensible. Yet the
State of California is allowing it to happen
– even in watersheds that are being restored
with our tax dollars.
Please continue to
restore our watersheds – please STOP clear
cutting forests.
Heather
Richman
Battle Creek
Comment: It makes no sense to spend effort
and money to restore downstream for salmon
and clear-cut upstream, resulting in
destruction of habitat on the same stream for
the same salmon. Please stop this logging.
Rasa
Gustaitis Moss
Battle Creek
Comment: I only travel through the Battle
Creek area, but I see clearcutting throughout
the Sierra. Why is this still allowed to
occur, when the science and good sense tell
us it is not possible to have a healthy
forest when it is truncated in large swaths
and sprayed with herbicides that harm water
and habitat? The situation in Battle Creek
speaks to the larger problem affecting the
Sierra and the state – clearcutting has got
to go.
Laurie
Davis
Battle Creek
Comment: please stop the clear
cutting
ralph
j byrne
Battle Creek
Comment: Dear Governor and Secretary of
Natural Resources, I am writing you in the
hope that you will stop the legality of the
clear cutting practice in our forests. Best
practices forestry as taught in all
Universities does not include clear cutting.
Clearcutting is not sustainable as the arial
pictures of Battle Creek show. Clearcuts are
sprayed with herbicides and replanted with
few tree species. These plantations are
planted to dense for straight boles growth
and harvested at age 60 or 80 years. These
stands are a huge fire risk, deplete genetic
tree diversity and cause siltation of creeks
and rivers when first planted.
Pat
Lind
Battle Creek
Comment: What a sad thing, that we are so
unconscious of all the wonderful gifts we
have been given. But it seems,profit
rules.
Betty A. and
Peter J. Mich
Battle Creek
Comment: Please stop the clear
cutting.
Lori
Kondro
Battle Creek Comment:
Please stop the
clear-cutting of Battle Creek. Ecosystems
must be preserved. It’s critical for any kind
of healthy environmental future. Regular
folks are so tired of policies that hurt our
environmental future but are tolerated as
they line somebody’s pocket. When those in
charge of corporate america finally realize
that we’re screwed environmentally – it will
be way, way too late and their grandchildren
and great-grandchildren will look at them and
wonder how they could have been so
short-sighted, arrogant, greedy and stupid.
What a depressing legancy to leave for any
future generations…..if there ARE any
future generations.Kara
Littell-McWilliams
I own a home in
Manton, in the Battle Creek watershed. I
raised my family there, and have been
involved in efforts to stop SPI’s rampage
across the Sierra Nevada for more than a
decade, as a biologist and as a forest
protection activist. SPI s type of industrial
clearcutting includes bulldozing, burning,
planting, and chemical herbicide
applications. It is not forestry, but
agricultural tree farming. These practices
completely eliminate the natural forest. If
this isn t stopped now, restoration of the
salmon and steelhead fishery in Battle Creek
is going to be seriously jeopardized. It
already is at risk from the nearly 20,000
acres of clearcuts that have already been
permitted in the short span of a decade.
There has never been this level of logging
destruction in the Sierra Nevada in history
even a hundred years ago, when the first
ancient giant trees were cut down (trees that
were 500 years old or more), at least the
forest could grow back naturally. There is no
hope of this now.
Please implement the
California Wildlife Action Plan, a blueprint
for conservation that we taxpayers paid for,
that recommends setting ecologically based
limits on clearcutting for each watershed.
Please put a halt to the use of chemical
herbicides in the headwaters of our drinking
water supplies, including chemicals like
triclopyr that are lethal to juvenile
salmonids. A full scale scientific review of
the cumulative impacts of clearcutting this
watershed is imperative, and all logging must
be halted until a sustainable management plan
for logging in the watershed can be created.
Credible scientists without ties to the
logging industry must lead this
effort.Vivian
Parker
Battle
Creek Comment: Risking the state revenues
used for salmon habitat restoration, by
allowing Sierra Pacific to continue clear
cutting the Battle Creek watershed, is
potentially a gross waste of fiscal
resources. Clear cutting should
stop!Jason Bradley
Battle
Creek Comment: Clear cutting is literally
raping the land. I lived in Eureka, CA 1972
to 1975 and it was going on then with
impunity. I saw it first hand from a small
plane on the other side of the foothills.
Please finally put a stop to this careless
disregard for our land.
Ann
Hobson
Battle
Creek Comment: Ecosystem management requires
all affective elements be coordinated so that
the objectives of the plan will not be
subverted. All activities upstream affect
activities downstream. This type of planning
was not done for the Battle Creek Watershed.
Please fix this egregious error. And don’t do
it again!
Sandy
Sanders
Battle
Creek Comment: There are so many ways in
which clearcutting damages the environment.
Let me count the ways: destruction of salmon
habitat through erosion; widespread use of
herbicides that pollute water and soil;
destruction of diverse forests and
replacement with tree plantations of one or
two species; increased risk of fire danger
due to even-aged management; increased forest
temperatures because the large trees are
gone; large releases of carbon dioxide that
exacerbate climate change; fewer jobs in the
woods as huge machinery replaces loggers; and
many more. Why is this allowed? The only
purpose of clearcutting is increased profits
for the timber companies. Please end this
practice
now.Sue
Lynn
sigrid
mclaughlin
Battle
Creek Comment: Clear cutting is an outrageous
action and results in the destruction of
habitat and many species. It destroys the
natural beauty of forests which may never
recover for decades, if at
all.Margery
Nicolsosn
Battle
Creek Comment: What a sad thing, that we are
so unconscious of all the wonderful gifts we
have been given. But it seems,profit
rules.Betty
A. and Peter J. Mich
Battle
Creek Comment:
Please
stop the clear
cutting.Lori
Kondro
Battle
Creek Comment: Please stop the clear-cutting
of Battle Creek. Ecosystems must be
preserved. It’s critical for any kind of
healthy environmental future. Regular folks
are so tired of policies that hurt our
environmental future but are tolerated as
they line somebody’s pocket. When those in
charge of corporate america finally realize
that we’re screwed environmentally – it will
be way, way too late and their grandchildren
and great-grandchildren will look at them and
wonder how they could have been so
short-sighted, arrogant, greedy and stupid.
What a depressing legancy to leave for any
future generations…..if there ARE any
future
generations.Kara
Littell-McWilliams
Battle
Creek Comment: Dear Governor Brown and
Secretary Laird –
I strongly
support the state’s efforts to enhance
watersheds, remove dams and restore
fisheries, particularly in the special
volcanic habitat area of Battle Creek. It is
just wrong to permit Sierra Pacific
Industries to clearcut in the environmentally
significant Battle Creek watershed. Forest
harvest with clearcut practices is
destructive and out-dated. I urge you to take
action and reverse the California Department
of Forestry permits that allow Sierra Pacific
to continue their grossly inappropriate
forest resource mining. This watershed and
the fishery it supports needs restoration,
not
devastation.Nikki
Nedeff
Battle
Creek Comment: It is ridiculous that clear
cutting is still allowed when we know it is
so damaging to the systems that keep us all
alive. Please stop it.
Lisa
Brown
Battle
Creek Comment: WE need to protect our
drinking water, salmon, and wildlife. Clear
cutting our watersheds destroys these
priceless resources.
Felipe
Garcia
Battle
Creek Comment: The Battle Creek Watershed is
being devastated by clearcutting. It is not
only ugly to look at but the trees that are
replanted are usually not the trees that were
harvested. This is creating a very disruptive
ecosystem not protective of sustainable
species. Select cutting and replanting with
replacement trees will aid in sustaining the
current ecosystem. What must also be taken
into account is climate change.
I have
observed extremely degraded water quality
from clearcut logging operations. Timber
companies need to be required to sample for
pre and post logging water quality. The
Regional Board does not have sufficient funds
to do this. The timber companies should
either be required to hire independent firms
to take regular water samples or pay into a
fund sufficient monies to cover credible
sampling. Restoration of wildlife habitat
should also be
required.
John Livingston
Battle
Creek Comment: Please put a stop to
clearcutting in the Battle Creek watershed.
It is not compatible with long term wildlife,
fish, and soil health.
Don
Morrill
Battle
Creek Comment: Wow! Let’s get some logic
here! Haven’t we learned? about the
consequences of this type of logging? about
the greediness of logging business to cut as
much as fast as secretly as they can when
they know resources and informed and
concerned citizens are asking for alternative
and more sensitive procedures are needed.
about our American lifestyle which needs to
curb our use of resources to recover our
destructiveness to the environment. I just
complete a duplex and tried very hard to
incorporate appropriate building practices to
decrease consumption of wood products and use
of more environmentally friendly construction
practices… we ALL have to stop consuming
like we have in the past… there are too
many people, houses, roads, buildings…
please recognize this and help the timber
industry ease into a transition away from
clear cutting and save our forests, animals
and their habitat and most importantly,
everybody’s watershed! Liz
Mosher
Battle
Creek Comment: Clearcutting only benefits big
timber. Downstream recreation is degraded,
flora and fauna die, and (desirable) water
quality is a joke. The Battle Creek watershed
is an ongoing disgrace to this State’s status
as a white knight for natural
beauty.
Please
reset our State’s priorities and save our
resources and beauty for present and future
residents.Ann
E Garside
Battle Creek
Comment: Hello – I have been involved in
Forest Activism since the early 1990s. The
logging on private lands has intensified
since that time. Large clearcuts are the norm
now, where in the 90’s they were rare.
Plantations and watershed destruction are
rampant. The logging and clearcuts are
literally right next to large creek and
streams. The Battle Creek watershed is a
perfect example of taxpayers putting money
into salmon restoration and private
timberland owners taking any benefits away
with the other hand. Butte Creek in Butte
County is another creek that is heavily
impacted by private land logging and has
millions of dollars of restoration work in
progress.
This is simply
ridiculous.
Governor Brown, you
are a straight talker. Tell us how this adds
up?? Patricia
Puterbaugh
Battle Creek
Comment: Isn’t this “public land”? That means
it belongs to me too and I don’t want a
private company to desecrate the land,
wildlife habitat, fish and water of this
forested area.
Marty
Brown
Battle Creek
Comment: Please stop the clear cutting in
northern California by Sierra
Pacific.Charlotte
Williams
Battle Creek
Comment: I oppose this clearcutting! Sierra
Pacific, the largest private landowner in
California, is doing it now to much of the
most vital forested habitat in California.
Not only is it a heinous practice, but made
much worse in this case because of an
expensive effort by the State of California
to restore salmon habitat that was destroyed
by dams and irrigation.
A serious breakdown
in California policy and management allows
this ridiculous atrocity. California and the
federal government are removing dams in the
Battle Creek watershed to restore the salmon
fishery while the state’s department of
forestry and fire protection (CalFire) is
permitting industrial clear cutting in the
watershed. Sierra Pacific has filed 16 plans
to clear cut 20,000 acres in the watershed.
This is like taking an aspirin to cure a
headache with one hand and cutting off your
head with the other because you can get a
couple of dollars for it at the pawn shop. It
is profligate. It is duplicitous. It is self
defeating. It is stupid.
It must be stopped.
Please look at these pages and tell the
Governor you want this unconscionable
practice stopped. PelicanNetwork & Colin
Smith
Colin
Smith
Battle Creek
Comment: Is this a case of the left hand not
knowing what the right hand is doing or
something more nefarious? Clear cutting the
Battle Creek watershed by Sierra Pacific at
the same time taxpayers are funding the
restoration of salmon in the same stream,
makes no sense at all. Sierra Pacific may
have contributed to your campaign, but ‘we
the people’ elected you to work for ALL of
us. Stop the clear cutting now please. Thank
you. R.
Zierikzee
Battle Creek
Comment: Clear cutting destroys the
environment, and is not sustainable. Greed is
killing the planet. Please stand up against
this horrific
process.
Paul Jimerson
Battle Creek
Comment: Clearcutting is undercutting the
work done to save the salmon!
Betty A.
Michelozzi
Battle Creek
Comment: I am appalled that clear cutting is
still be done and in California! Please stop
this atrocity that is happening in the
Sierras by Pacific Sierra logging co.
Carol
Carson
Battle Creek
Comment: Restoring balance and harmony w/our
natural environment is the only way we can
retain a sustainable planet – clear cutting
creates havoc. It must stopped and an
alternative found.
Pauline
Allen
Battle Creek
Comment: I’m surprised clearcutting is still
an issue. I thought we oulawed this
devestating practice 40 years ago! So let’s
outlaw it
now.
Michelle Miranda
Battle Creek
Comment: This is craziness. How can the Board
of Forestry allow clearcutting to sabatoge
all the work being done to restore the Batlle
Creek fishery?
James
Feichtl
Battle Creek
Comment: This is craziness. How can the Board
of Forestry allow clearcutting to sabotage
all the work being done to restore the Battle
Creek fishery? James
Feichtl
Battle Creek
Comment: Clearcutting in the headwaters of
Battle Creek at the same time the state is
trying to restore salmon there is not good
policy. I urge a moritorium on clearcutting
in the area. John
Trinkl
Battle Creek
Comment: Stop the clear cutting.
RON GABEL
Battle Creek
Comment: Dear Governor Brown,
In April 2002 the
IRON MOUNTAIN MINE TRUSTEE COUNCIL consisting
of State and Federal Agencies:
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
California Department of Fish and Game
National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration
Bureau of Land Management
Bureau of Reclamation issued its FINAL
RESTORATION PLAN FOR NATURAL RESOURCE
INJURIES
FROM IRON MOUNTAIN MINE
That plan allocated
$9 million for ecological and lost human-use
restoration. “Proposed restoration actions
will occur along the
Sacramento River and
its tributaries between Keswick Reservoir and
Red Bluff Diversion Dam, Redding to Red
Bluff.”
In April 2005, our
organization, a 501(c)3 non-profit applied
for a grant under this plan to preserve 215
acres of upper Salt Creek, a vibrant Salmon
and Steelhead habitat, just below Iron
Mountain Mine. We were denied because the
bulk of the $9 million was going to be dumped
into a single watershed, Battle Creek,
located many miles south of the Iron Mountain
Superfund Cleanup Site.
That Battle Creek is
now being assulted with clear cutting is
evidence that restoration should not be
concentrated on single watersheds, but on
multiple watersheds. That Battle Creek
riparian habitat is being destroyed by Sierra
Pacific clearcuts is a double insult in that
federal and state funds were directed to
Battle Creek instead of many deserving
watersheds north of Battle Creek below
Keswick Dam. The purpose of public investment
was salmon and steelhead restoration!!!
This is a fiscal and
environmental travesty needing your
intervention. Susan G.
Weale
Battle Creek
Comment: please revise plans of clear-cutting
made by sierra pacific. the devastation
caused is inhumane for our environment at
this time. gloria
jimenez
Battle Creek
Comment: I have spent time on Battle Creek
and know what a special place it is. Please
protect it and give the salmon a chance to
survive Susan
Hubbard
Toni Wolfson
Battle Creek
Comment: Governor Brown: Please investigate
the clear- cutting of 20,000 acres in the
Battle Creek watershed. It is a big and
stupid plan! We are depending on you to look
very seriously into this and stop this. Many
thanks for your consideration!
Audie
Housman
Battle Creek
Comment: I’m not a Californian but I stand
with them on this clear cutting outrage that
it’s going on their beautiful state. When is
all this madness going to stop? Hasn’t human
kind done enough to destroy our beautiful God
given planet?
Truly ypours,
Antonio DeSousa
Battle Creek
Comment: Clear cutting watershed is the
height of self-destructive stupidity. Please
stop this. Joseph
Christensen
Battle Creek
Comment: The clear cutting and use of
herbicides in this critical Battle Creek
watershed, where so much is being done to
salvage the salmon population, is dangerously
counter-productive and absurdly threatens to
undermine the expensive and important
project. Please restrict this logging
practice in this area. Tom
Dodd
Battle Creek
Comment: Governor Brown,
This is a moment of
truth so the effect of your decision in this
matter involves much more than the health of
a salmon population and a micro ecology.
As well as anyone,
you must be aware that clear cutting Battle
Creek or anywhere else would be hypocritical,
short-sighted cynical and stupid.
You also know that
the cost to the public of such environmental
neglect equals that of the “pioneers” who
destroyed most of California’s ancient
forests in the 19th century and that the cost
to us far surpasses any economic benefit and
further, you know that this benefit is to a
handful of forest investors. You know that
logging is done mechanically today, often
using the cheapest labor available–recently
immigrated.
You know that
previous appointments to the Board of
Forestry literally destroyed the department’s
commitment to environmental preservation and
that CalFire, a public agency, is nothing
more than a means of protecting the assets of
timber managers, cares not a whit for
environmental issues nor for public
recreation, and that Battle Creek is but one
example of this agency’s neglect.
But you also know
that today’s environmental problems, as vast
as they are, can only be solved by setting
precedents in local actions, such as, Battle
Creek and thus, I expect you know that this
is a place where we must take a stand for the
future or there may not be a future very
long. Michael Winn
Battle Creek
Comment: sir not only is it fiscally
iresponsible to allow clear cutting for a
fee,but then use tax paper funds,both state
and federal to apply environmental
remediation. this practice in forestery and
mining is costing my great,great
grandchildren to much reduction in quality of
life. long before they come. let us all
embrace reason,and honourably in this and all
governanace. thank you James
otha wolfenden
Battle Creek
Comment: Salmon, Yes.
Logging, No.
Please help get rid
of the practices that are cutting down trees
and removing dams while permits allow clear
cutting of watershed. We need some balance
here and need Gov. Brown to provide the
necessary leadership. Maris
Sidenstecker
Battle
Creek Comment: Clear cutting does permanent
and irrevocable damage to an ecosystem and
should not be permitted under any
circumstances. Cosmetic improvements such as
tree plantations do not restore the lost
biodiversity. Tim
Goncharoff
Battle
Creek Comment: stop the clear cutting. Stop
the destruction of our natural
resources. john
ruffner
Battle
Creek Comment: This is the kind of bureaucrat
not-knowing-what-the-other-hand-is-doing
stuff that drives the public crazy and gives
government a very black eye.
Fix this
and save the salmon. betty
winholtz
Battle
Creek Comment: PLEASE stop clear cutting! The
fish, birds, butterflies and every animal are
driven out of a habitat that is already
diminishing steadily. Erosion causes sediment
to fill and heat creeks and choke off life.
Then the company plants a plantation of
single species pine for industrial harvest
which chokes off the vitality of the forest.
This is ABUSE of our natural resources.
Climate change is here because of abuse. Now
clear cutting WILL contribute to more
catastrophic conditions. Frankie
English
Stacey Gledich
Battle
Creek Comment: There is no question that
clear cutting is severely damaging to
watersheds. Allowing this practice to
continue in the Battle Creek watershed is
undoing years of work and millions of dollars
spent on restoring salmon and steelhead to
this system.
Please put
a stop to the clear cutting in the Battle
Creek watershed. Dougald
Scott
Battle
Creek Comment: Please Stop All Further
Industrial Clearcuts in
Watersheds. David
Dilworth
Battle
Creek Comment: In a time when global warming
threatens life as we know it, continued clear
cutting for short term gain does not make
sense. Forests act naturally to restore the
balance of composition in the atmosphere and
provide a home to diverse species of animals.
Please take action to stop this senseless
clear cutting and loss of an irreplaceable
resource. Please help preserve the Battle
Creek watershed forest. John
Schlottig
Battle
Creek Comment: Re Sierra Pacific and the
Battle Creek watershed: Clear cutting in this
day and age?? Please stop this
madness. Gary L.
Auth
Battle
Creek Comment: Any practice that is
destructive to ecosystems or is unsustainable
must be stopped, redesigned to be non-harmful
and sustainable practices. This applies
globally to all actions and cannot be
compromised. Period. Marshall
Sanders
Battle
Creek Comment: Dear Governor and Secretary of
Natural Resources,
I am
appalled by the clear cutting of the
watershed! While I understand the need for
forest management, this is, in my opinion, a
terrible travesty to our precious forests!
Why restore the salmon fishery at the same
time destroy the forests with clear cutting?
Please put a stop to this so that the salmon
fisheries, with the restored watershed at
Battle Creek, can have a forest to come back
too and complete the balance needed in our
ecosystems! Greg
Minuskin
Battle
Creek Comment: I attended meetings of the
Jackson Forest Advisory for 2 years. CalFire
is an enabler of the timber industry, it’s
policies are not in the public interest but
to serve the goals of timber
production. Michael
Winn
Battle
Creek Comment: this clearcutting is
shortsighted greed at the expense of our
grandchildren’s legacy. We must stop thinking
selfishly. Stop this industrial clear cutting
now. Linda Hanes
Battle
Creek Comment: Matt Weiser’s excellent
article on Battle Creek pointed out a problem
that exists across the Sierra and southern
Cascades: Sierra Pacific Industries’
clearcutting is at total odds with state,
federal and local conservation efforts and
investment.
While
communities and agencies work to reduce the
risk of damaging fires, SPI is logging large,
fire-resistant trees and replacing them with
highly flammable pine plantations. While
PG&E, conservation groups, and wildlife
agencies invest millions to restore rivers,
fish habitat, and frog populations, SPI is
dumping millions of gallons of herbicide in
the watersheds and creating huge erosion
risks. While the state works to reduce
greenhouse gas emissions, SPI is releasing
huge amounts of carbon by deep-ripping forest
soils.
This is
not enlightened forest management. It’s
forest liquidation, a late 19th century
robber-baron approach to resource management.
And it’s putting the public’s wildlife,
fisheries, and water quality at risk.
Betty A. and Peter J.
Mich
Battle
Creek Comment: Please ensure that Sierra
Pacific is not allowed to clear cut in the
Battle Creek area. It should be obvious by
now that clear cutting causes irreversible
damage, and it’s an irrespo0nsible way of
harvesting wood. Kermit
Cuff
Battle
Creek Comment: Battle Creek is the wrong
place and the wrong time for clearcut
logging. Please put a stop to it!
Steven Singer
Battle
Creek Comment: Totally destroying entire
ecosystems and undermining the health of
hundreds of watersheds can no longer be
considered acceptable. Make clear cutting
illegal. Nancy B. Macy
Battle
Creek Comment: We need more trees and we need
more salmon. Stop the clearcut, don’t waste
our tax dollars by letting Sierra Pacific do
this. Greg Meyer
Battle
Creek Comment: What the hell is this??? this
plan is in direct opposition to protecting
the watershed and in restoring the salmon
fisheries.What insanity–no coordination,
planning or good judgment. anita
jennings
Battle
Creek Comment: I think the State of
California shouldn’t allow clearcutting of
its forests. Kevin
Wacknov
Battle
Creek Comment: Matt Weiser’s excellent
article on Battle Creek pointed out a problem
that exists across the Sierra and southern
Cascades: Sierra Pacific Industries’ clear
cutting is at total odds with state, federal
and local conservation efforts and
investment.
While
communities and agencies work to reduce the
risk of damaging fires, SPI is logging large,
fire-resistant trees and replacing them with
highly flammable pine plantations. While
PG&E, conservation groups, and wildlife
agencies invest millions to restore rivers,
fish habitat, and frog populations, SPI is
dumping millions of gallons of herbicide in
the watersheds and creating huge erosion
risks. While the state works to reduce
greenhouse gas emissions, SPI is releasing
huge amounts of carbon by deep-ripping forest
soils.
This is
not enlightened forest management. It’s
forest liquidation, a late 19th century
robber-baron approach to resource management.
And it’s putting the public’s wildlife,
fisheries, and water quality at risk
Beverly
Anderson
Battle
Creek Comment: Dear Sirs,
You still
have my full faith and confidence but please
act to correct this terrible mis-use of our
state’s treasured natural
resources.
Mike
Dusharme
Battle
Creek Comment: Clear cutting has got to stop.
The value of our forests far exceeds the
short term financial gain received by the
private sector. the public has a right to
preserve this valuable land that sustains the
environment and so many interdependant
ecosystems. I have supported Governor Brown.
Please stop this misuse of a valuable and
irreplaceable treasure.
Saarah
Romo
Battle
Creek Comment: Dear Governor Brown and
Secretary Laird:
There is a
problem that exists across the Sierra and
southern Cascades: Sierra Pacific Industries’
clearcutting is at total odds with state,
federal and local conservation efforts and
investment.
While
communities and agencies work to reduce the
risk of damaging fires, SPI is logging large,
fire-resistant trees and replacing them with
highly flammable pine plantations. While
PG&E, conservation groups, and wildlife
agencies invest millions to restore rivers,
fish habitat, and frog populations, SPI is
dumping millions of gallons of herbicide in
the watersheds and creating huge erosion
risks. While the state works to reduce
greenhouse gas emissions, SPI is releasing
huge amounts of carbon by deep-ripping forest
soils.
This is
not enlightened forest management. It’s
forest liquidation, a late 19th century
robber-baron approach to resource management.
And it’s putting the public’s wildlife,
fisheries, and water quality at risk.
Please put
a stop to this!
Jim
Curland
Battle
Creek Comment: Clear cutting has got to stop.
The value of our forests far exceeds the
short term financial gain received by the
private sector. the public has a right to
preserve this valuable land that sustains the
environment and so many interdependant
ecosystems. I have supported Governor Brown.
Please stop this misuse of a valuable and
irreplaceable treasure.
Saarah
Romo
Battle
Creek Comment: We are shocked and horrified
to hear of the extensive clear-cutting of the
Sierra forests in our beautiful state!! Have
we gone back to the dark ages!!??! Please
make it stop and NOW!!! We will be in the
streets protesting if it doesn’t stop. What
an embarrassment to our state! What a crime
against our forests, our children’s
heritage!!
Bill and Jan
Tache
Battle
Creek Comment: Jerry, and John. Please do not
allow Sierra Pacific to clearcut forest in
the Battle Creek watershed. This harvesting
is a travesty to the environment.
Thank you
for your consideration.
Tauria
Linala
Battle
Creek Comment: I have taught Fisheries at
Humboldt State for the past 30+ years and
have been involved in efforts to restore the
Battle Creek watershed. I cannot imagine a
worse location to allow large clearcutting.
There is hope that Battle Creek could
possibly become an additional refuge for
endgangered winter Chinook, in addition to
providing quality habitat for other
anadromous salmonids in one of the few
Sacramento tributaries that has any
substantial production potential. Please do
not allow clear cuts in this
drainage.
david
hankin
Battle
Creek Comment: Please stop the timber clear
cutting by Sierra Pacific in the Battle Creek
watershed. Not only is the clear cutting
atrocious in its destruction of the habitat
and its wildlife, it is in ludicrous conflict
with taxpayer-funded watershed restoration in
the same area!!!
Emiko
Isa
Battle
Creek Comment: I find it difficult to
understand why the State of California and
the Federal Government can get together and
invest upwards of $138 million on the Battle
Creek Restoration Project and allow the
Sierra Pacific Lumber Company to jeopardize
the project by strip logging above in the
same watershed. What is found to be legal
sometimes is not just, good government must
find a way to preserve and protect from those
who would destroy for profit.
James G
Kimball
Battle
Creek Comment: I have taught Fisheries at
Humboldt State for the past 30+ years and
have been involved in efforts to restore the
Battle Creek watershed. I cannot imagine a
worse location to allow large clearcutting.
There is hope that Battle Creek could
possibly become an additional refuge for
endgangered winter Chinook, in addition to
providing quality habitat for other
anadromous salmonids in one of the few
Sacramento tributaries that has any
substantial production potential. Please do
not allow clear cuts in this drainage.
david
hankin