To Protest Logging on Rainbow Ridge, 87-Year-Old Locked Down to Gate and Preventing Access to Humboldt Redwoods Mill in Scotia

87-year-old Jack Nounnan has locked himself to the main log truck entry in #Scotia, Ca to protest deforestation on Rainbow Ridge in the Mattole Forest. [Image from Blockade Babes Instagram]

An elderly man kneels asphalt with his head against the rusty bars of the gate at the entrance to Humboldt Redwood Company’s mill in Scotia this afternoon. He has locked himself there as a protest against ongoing logging by the Humboldt Redwood Company on Rainbow Ridge which rises through the Mattole Forest. A small group of protesters, one playing a guitar, two holding a large banner support him.

87-year-old Jack Jack Nounnan is trying to stop traffic at the main log truck entry , explained Georgia Doremus, spokesperson for Earth First! Humboldt and the campaign to Save the Mattole’s Ancient Forest.

“He’s blocking log trucks from coming into the mill,” said Doremus. “He’s been blocking log trucks for maybe two hours,” she told us about 3:10 p.m.

John Andersen, Director of Humboldt Redwood Company, wrote, “We are aware of a trespasser at the sawmill in Scotia.  Our first priority is everyone’s safety and are grateful the Sherriff deputies on site.  They will safely remove the trespasser and keep the area safe for our employees contractors and the trespasser.  In the meantime we are checking to make sure the trespasser has water (we will provide water and a snack if necessary) and we have diverted operational activities around the area to assure everyone is out of harm’s way.”

Samantha Karges, spokesperson for the Humboldt County Sheriff’s Department, told us at 4:20 p.m., “Deputies are preparing to remove the man from the gate right now.”

The protesters say that Humboldt Redwood Company (HRC) which markets sustainably harvested wood is cutting old growth Douglas Fir and impacting wildlife.

HRC contends they are not cutting old growth and are proud of their record. (See full statement below)

“Tomorrow we’re expecting to see a continuation of protests,” Doremus said. “There is a lot of community resistance, a lot of members from the Mattole Valley. There is a lot of momentum.”

Doremus said that a core group of the protesters tomorrow will be “elders based out of Petrolia.” Because of that she said, “We’re hoping to see a lot members of the community that is impacted out there…We’re having a rally tomorrow at Monument Gate starting at 10 [in the morning.]”

87-year-old Jack Nounan has locked himself to the main log truck entry in #Scotia, Ca to protest deforestation on Rainbow Ridge in the Mattole Forest. [Image from Blockade Babes Instagram]

An elderly man is locked down to a gate at the Scotia Mill to protest logging on Rainbow Ridge. [Photo from Blockade Babes]

Response from John Anderson, Director of Humboldt Redwood Company.

We are aware of a trespasser at the sawmill in Scotia.  Our first priority is everyone’s safety and are grateful the Sherriff deputies on site.  They will safely remove the trespasser and keep the area safe for our employees contractors and the trespasser.  In the meantime we are checking to make sure the trespasser has water (we will provide water and a snack if necessary) and we have diverted operational activities around the area to assure everyone is out of harm’s way.  We appreciate the consistency and prompt response of the Sherriff’s office.
It appears the trespasser has an interest in our forest management in the Mattole.  We are happy to share our activities on our timberland and including the logging on our property in the Mattole area; we submit to FSC annual audits and review of our activities in addition to the seven (7) state and federal agencies responsible for overseeing Timber Harvest (THP) Activities.  You are probably aware a California THP is recognized as a CEQA compliant EIS.  The process of earning a THP is extensive, thorough and subject to judicial challenge.  We go beyond that in seeking third-party audits. 
 
Specific to this THP, we went a hurdle beyond that already high bar.  Beginning in 2012, we sought additional input from stakeholders and FSC which led us to voluntarily modify the THP in 2016, in 2018 we voluntarily sought a third review with stakeholders and FSC.
 
We have toured more than fifty (50) people through the THP area.  We completed the reporting requested of the FSC auditor which led to our beginning operations.    This reporting included specific voluntary areas set aside for High Conservation Value Forest (HVCF) which we addressed to the satisfaction of the FSC auditor specifically for this THP. Old growth trees and old growth type trees are being protected down to the single tree – be they redwood, Douglas fir or any tree.   We are currently performing an additional, voluntary review of the tens of thousands of acres we own in conjunction with the FSC auditor to evaluate again those areas beyond the current THP for HVCF areas. 
 
We have had a longstanding policy to take anyone anywhere on the property, to the place of their choosing to see firsthand our forest management activities. Pick a place on the map, anywhere on our property, and we will go there together to look at it and talk about it.  Over the twenty (20) years our family of companies has been in business we have done this with thousands of interested parties and we have learned from one and other.  We actively encourage and promote this sort of transparency.  Beyond meeting people on the property, we are one a few, if any, timber companies publishing a breadth and depth of data alongside our commitment to policies and principles of our activities.  It can all be found here:  https://www.hrcllc.com/
 
Specific to old growth we protect beyond the requirements of FSC down to the single tree and to trees that show “characteristics of old growth.”  Our policy applies to redwoods, Douglas fir and any tree on our property. This is true in the Mattole and across our entire ownership.  In the case of the THP in the Mattole dozens of interested parties, including FSC auditors, have reviewed the harvest to assure we are in alignment with our policy of protecting old growth trees, among so many other commitments.  The specifics of our Old Growth Policy can be found here:  https://www.hrcllc.com/old-growth
 
We hope these policies and transparency can be a signal to other timberland owners to operate at a high environmental standard and be a successful business. We think it would be good for all forests and are trying to set a positive example in our part of the world. 
 
Coming back to trespassing, it would be better to take us up on the offer to come see for oneself, either in the Mattole at completion of operations, or anywhere on the map of our ownership
 
Our first priority is for the safety of our employees, contractors and trespassers.  These are busy and activity operations – logging and sawmills –  is safer to contact us an come see for [oneself] then than to come and go unexpectedly and without warning.  To that end, we appreciate the Sherriff’s office responding promptly and consistently.

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Loggers wife
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Loggers wife
4 years ago

You have got to be kidding me take his ass to jail !! So ridiculous ! These men and women are providing for their family ! Getting Up at 2am, missing out on time with their family that’s at home Bc this old geezer ! That now have to sit at the mill waiting for him to remove himself ??someones Giving him water and snacks let him dehydrate !!you have got to be kidding me !! Btw it’s not only rainbow ridge being taken to Scotia mill asshat !!

Muddy Black Dodge
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4 years ago
Reply to  Loggers wife

Maybe realize Loggers wife( if that’s your real name) you husband is being used by a billionaire family who doesn’t give a shit about you, your family, our environment( yours too), our county (yours too), or the Eco system that is Rainbow Ridge. So much more to say, but can’t be posted on this site. Long live Jack, Rainbow Ridge, and the folks willing to step in the way of the GAP clothing store family.[edit] Oh poor you and your families shitty decision to be a huge tree logger who can’t log the big ones anymore because most are gone already. Are you from Oregon or Washington and moved here because all the big ones have been cut where you are from, or are you folks from here and wish to get the last of the big money in the woods… Hope you answer me.

Thirdeye
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Thirdeye
4 years ago

Wow, sounds like you really give a shit about timber workers and their families!

Joe dirt
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Joe dirt
4 years ago
Reply to  Thirdeye

Something changed the world the day before Independence day 3rd of July. Maybe it was a prayer a voice. A sacred moment shared and spread throughout the world a gift from the heavens a teardrop from an angel a love song so deep everyone had to listen God only knows whatever it is started at rainbow ridge up monument road.
The healing has begun

ChiddyChiddyBangBang
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ChiddyChiddyBangBang
4 years ago
Reply to  Joe dirt

The piston engine changed everything.

Driptorch
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Driptorch
4 years ago

Whimpy black dodge wiped clean with the paper that they produce for you. I assume you live in a plastic house with poly carb shelving, concrete doors? Every morning you wake up and hit the shitter, you can thank them too. There’s no old growth logging anymore, there just forest management, so lets get over that once and for all. We’ll all be there for you when your neighborhood burns down from lack of proper thinning and sapling management little black dodge. Open your eyes, your blind post to shitting on the hard ass workers that contribute more than half of our counties tax revenue that paints the lines on your little road and funds your kids schooling. These guys work harder in a week than you may have your whole life. The ecosystem is not healthy being strangled with unmanaged forests and timberland. Keep it up HRC, thank you for keeping our land healthy, fire safe and disease free. Keep it up to all you loggers wives, your guys will work through this blind sided retrograde peanut butter and granola rampage. Keep it muddy black dodger Rodger. I know you shop at GAP, stop lying.

Central HumCo
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4 years ago
Reply to  Driptorch

Birth/BERTH Certificate Tax
Building Permit Tax
Certificate Tax (for HumCo farmers and ‘egg handlers’)
CDL License Tax
Cigarette Tax
Commercial Medical Marijuana Land Ordinance (huh?)
Corporate Income Tax
Court Tax
Death Tax/Probate
Dog License Tax
Federal Income Tax (Fed)
Federal Unemployment Tax (FUTA)
Fee Tax
Fishing License Tax
Food License Tax
Fuel Permit Tax
Gasoline Tax (California highest)
Hunting License Tax
Inheritance Tax
Inventory Tax
IRS Interest Charges (tax on top of tax)
IRS Penalties (tax on top of tax on top of tax)
Liquor Tax
Luxury Tax
Marriage License Tax
Medicare Tax
Property Tax
Real Estate Tax
Recreational Vehicle Tax
REGIStration Tax
Road Usage Tax (Truckers)
Sales Tax
School Tax
Service charge Tax
Social Security Tax
State Fire Tax
State Income Tax
State Unemployment Tax
Telephone Federal Excise Tax
Telephone Federal Universal Service Fee Tax
Telephone Federal, State and Local Surcharge Tax
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Telephone State and Local Tax
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Use Tax
Utility Tax
Vehicle License Registration Tax
Vehicle Sales Tax
Watercraft Registration Tax
Well Permit Tax
Workers Compensation Tax
(And to think, we left British Rule to avoid so many taxes)

STILL THINK THIS IS FUNNY?

Not one of these taxes existed 100 years ago…
And our country was the most prosperous in the world.

We had no national debt…
We had the largest middle class in the world…
And Mom stayed home to raise the babies.

What happened?
Can you spell ‘Politicians’?

Rex Trevor
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Rex Trevor
4 years ago
Reply to  Central HumCo

Off hand I can spot one fictitious entry;

We had no national debt”…

Nope. We sure did, especially after getting involved in WWI – ended 11-11-1918.
The only time in US history that we didn’t have a National Debt was briefly during Andrew Jackson’s admin in the 1830s

Central HumCo
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4 years ago
Reply to  Rex Trevor

~thank you for the correction. I shoulda said something like “less than a bazillion” :-))

TQM
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TQM
4 years ago
Reply to  Central HumCo

RIF: Ridiculously Irrelevant Fantasies.

Central HumCo
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4 years ago
Reply to  TQM

~if your head is in the sand.

shak
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shak
4 years ago
Reply to  Central HumCo

They didn’t just habben over night by whim, they were well planned, just like they did it across the pond. Create an article, use anonymous pens to support the narrative in the article, use gang stalking methods to ridicule, demean, slander, jail, anyone who differs from the narrative. Bribe, threaten, the elected so they don’t oppose the narrative. blablabla. Same old stuff, just new vicinity.
This video is enlightening. Stick with it, the video gets clearer as he unravels the dirty deeds. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VArbRzbIu0g&feature=youtu.be

Patterns.

Rob Halford
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Rob Halford
4 years ago
Reply to  shak

Hmmmm….this sounds a lot like the way Trump is treated every day. You guys use the same whiny playbook over and over. It doesn’t really matter because Trump will be reelected and we will have 4 more years of REAL leadership.

Eli's Commings
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Eli's Commings
4 years ago
Reply to  Loggers wife

Elijah is here a new day is dawning greed death and destruction will no longer be allowed time to change your ways our children’s future is more important then your money can buy no more wars you cannot play that game
The elders are moving and their children are wide awake you cannot hide behind your jobs and take the last of the old growth Douglas fir Forest go cut their babies down somewhere else Elijah is here and says no more old growth at rainbow ridge

james lane
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james lane
4 years ago
Reply to  Loggers wife

save the redwoods, that is all that matters.

binbearda4
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binbearda4
4 years ago

Tank Man on the ridge. Go brother,,,,

Joe dirt
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Joe dirt
4 years ago
Reply to  binbearda4

Wisdom keeper on monument gate says it will be nice to have the timber company gives a little bit to the people rainbow ridge is just a small drop of what they own and would be a win-win situation for everybody

Mary
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Mary
4 years ago

HRCs “old growth policy” as applied to individual trees requires that a tree, in addition to old growth ecological function and physical characteristics, must have been established prior to 1800. It also explains that if they cut one of those by “mistake”, or for building a road they won’t bring it to the mill. Great.

In a landscape dominated by high winds, earthquakes and landslides, there are only a small number of trees that meet the age requirement. Many of the big, mature trees fit all the characteristics, but are deemed to young to be protected.

HOJ in Training
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HOJ in Training
4 years ago

Way to go, Jack!

Just don’t pull that when they log my property.

Life is Good
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Life is Good
4 years ago

You can play guitar and lay around all you want but the Fishers will prevail. I agree with your cause but it’s a waste of time. The powers that be have already had their palms greased.

Greg
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Greg
4 years ago

John returned my call from two weeks ago today and explained some of the companies policies to me personally! He answered all my questions thoroughly. That’s a lot better than what maxxam offered back in the 90’s. Thanks, Mr. Anderson. I have a better understanding of his view on why they are logging there. According to him those lands were mis-managed for years and this guy either really cares about restoring them, or is super-proficient at pretending.

Joe dirt
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Joe dirt
4 years ago
Reply to  Greg

Mis managed meaning that we the forest protectors held out against them logging the property and now they think that they can do it year by year they try to take more and more the greed and corruption goes on

Martin
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Martin
4 years ago

With any luck that old fart will die of old age in the gate. I am sick and tired of these parasites stopping logging in our area. It is TIME to get them the hell out of the road!!!!!!!!!

Safe to say that spikes are next.
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Safe to say that spikes are next.
4 years ago
Reply to  Martin

I’m tired of people that think logging is more important than a healthy ecosystem. It’s almost as if a healthy ecosystem can provide far more than any job at any mill.. take it from me. I cut down and process trees for a living along with other things. But you can’t pay me enough to cut on old trees or in the watershed. LOGGERS out of jobs boo hoo. Diversify like everybody else. Try giving to the forest instead of taking from it.

Guest
Guest
Guest
4 years ago

Every tree is in some watershed or another. You can’t cut a tree without taking from it. It’s not that logging is more important than the forest but that food, shelter, schooling, etc are not free. Especially government demands a lot of wherewithal out of every citizen engaged in activity that is made legal by that government. And nothing but a very tenuous subsistence can be had from a forest. It sounds so right to say that a forest should not be disturbed but it also ignores reality that so many people can’t ever survive without taking a lot out of nature. So boo boo yourself- you can’t have your cake and eat it too. A thousand people chipping away at the forest according to their own wants are probably more destructive than any modern logging company. I know as I live in a huge clear cut done in Under 3 Acre Exemption bites.

Patty Clary
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Patty Clary
4 years ago

Jack is the man! What a great guy and inspiration.

Can't stand trespassers
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Can't stand trespassers
4 years ago

Not to bright there dipstick. An elderly woman lives up that road. In an emergency that is her way out. You better pray she doesn’t have an event.

tax payer
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tax payer
4 years ago

dont worry. there are many ways to move him quickly

Can't Stand Stupid
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Can't Stand Stupid
4 years ago
Reply to  tax payer

That’s probably her husband chained to the gate

tax payer
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tax payer
4 years ago

so. what does that have to do with anything and why would you speculate that? all i am saying is you can take the gate off the hinges and move the man and the gate as one if needs be

Joe dirt
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Joe dirt
4 years ago
Reply to  tax payer

The gate that Jack was hooked to his no residents behind there is also other ways out of the Scotia Mill if an emergency happened yesterday the only people blocking monument gate was a sheriff and a security cronies as far as I could tell I didn’t stay long that’s what I seen most companies don’t put in Gates that have hinges that are easily removed

Martin
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Martin
4 years ago
Reply to  tax payer

Yep, a dozer comes to find!

Driptorch
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Driptorch
4 years ago

Earth first! Should be paying the wages of all the hardworking family members, workers, and contractors of HRC that have continually had their wages altered due to this ruckus. Do these protesters have jobs??! Besides getting funded for misconstrued feelings? They are taking food off the table for many hardworking local families. The small, young trees have been cut already, creating a safer and healthier forest for all. Let them do their job and turn them into your houses and structures that keep you warm and safe. Keep our community fire safe, bring on the logs. Thank you HRC for keeping our forests healthy and safe from imminent fire and disease.

Smokey the beer.
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Smokey the beer.
4 years ago
Reply to  Driptorch

It seems like all the comments that are pro HRC are written exactly the same. Almost like John Anderson himself is sitting here trying to appear that he has more support. But in case you are not John , driptorch, you are seriously mentally disabled or something if you think that HRC keeps the forests healthy and fire safe. Really? Go friggin look at it with your own eyes.

Really?
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Really?
4 years ago

But that’s exactly what people who complain about the protesters are saying only about the economy and their livelihoods. You are seriously mentally disabled if you think that your livelihood doesn’t come from people who labor to support themselves and you too. There is a limit on how much you can extract from your fellow citizens before they can no longer support you on the fashion in which you demand to be supported.

...
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...
4 years ago
Reply to  Driptorch

I would bet the 87-year-old has no job. He probably hasn’t worked in years.

Davy Jones
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Davy Jones
4 years ago
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(Life is a job only some will truly live while others just complain about) the Tao from ancient China 6th century BC

guest
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guest
4 years ago
Reply to  ...

His job has been protesting all the usual causes for decades. https://archive.org/details/AH-SI-Nounnan In this youTube

Apparently he objected to his own teachers in elementary school, decided to become a teacher himself and teach in a different way. Not surprisingly he lead the children in their first protest.

TQM
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TQM
4 years ago
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It wouldnt be so bad to develop a rap sheet for defending the environment as a retirement hobby. I hope I do the same when I’m no longer working 40+ hrs. a week to survive.

Stephen Crane
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Stephen Crane
4 years ago

Maybe sometimes it is good to just leave things alone. (The trees in question, in this case).
I know about people needing jobs.
After the protesters have their say and the timber company has its PR statements, maybe just leave it alone.

Carol
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4 years ago

Goddess Bless You, Jack!
Sending love your way.
Thank You!

Paul
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Paul
4 years ago
Reply to  Carol

Look at him he needs blessings he Dosent look like he will live another day! Let him stay locked and find another route and he can’t rot there!

guest
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guest
4 years ago
Reply to  Paul

paul, you’re jealous. cuz ladies love a man with conviction.

f@%k yeah Jack !!!

Central HumCo
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4 years ago
Reply to  guest

~true enough.

Mike
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Mike
4 years ago

So he’s blocking the trees after they’ve been cut to save the trees?

Steve
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Steve
4 years ago

It must be nice to have nothing else to do but fuck up other people’s livelihood…but this is dumboldt…

Joe dirt
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Joe dirt
4 years ago
Reply to  Steve

Steve well’s you still up to no good

TQM
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TQM
4 years ago

Damn! I hope I’m like him when I’m 87!

artist formerly known as wildman
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artist formerly known as wildman
4 years ago

Jack still going strong at 87.

Bushytails
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Bushytails
4 years ago

I don’t get it. This seems like a dispute of facts, and thus something that should be easily resolved. Are they harvesting old growth, or not?

tech
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tech
4 years ago
Reply to  Bushytails

Any true old growth on company land is gone besides some very limited stands or one-off trees with wood defects/damage. True old-growth redwood is hundreds if not thousands of years old. What they are arguing about is the logging of what has regrown since and they (hippies) consider “old-growth”. To a Forester(and the truth), it is second growth, to a hippie, it is “old-growth” or what can become old-growth redwood.

Muddy Black Dodge
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4 years ago

You are a bad ass Jack, I wish I had had half the heart you have displayed with your actions today. Long live Jack!!!, I send you love from my whole family. Peace brave man, you are awesome.

hill billy
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hill billy
4 years ago

That’s beautiful!

Hank
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Hank
4 years ago

Kudos to Jack Nounan!!
Brave & committed dude.

Thirdeye
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Thirdeye
4 years ago
Reply to  Hank

Should be committed.

Drea
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Drea
4 years ago
Reply to  Thirdeye

To history and local legend, for being one of the finest examples of a man in this county.

Joe dirt
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Joe dirt
4 years ago

The elders are standing ground not for themselves but for everybody’s children that will suffer We Love our kids and want them to have a stable environment to grow up in headwaters of the mattole and the moisture belt for inland redwoods the coast between petrolia and Ferndale is one of the most wettest places in northern California it holds a fog bank for most of the year some people call it the wildcat rainbow ridge Just inland a little ways a majestic area you will probably never visit in our time but if left to stand will become a area where our children and their children can go and see just how majestic and magical a mostly intact old-growth fir Forest can be these elders are our modern day heroes and should not be put in jail for protecting what they believe in the future belongs to the kids

Really?
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Really?
4 years ago
Reply to  Joe dirt

“Get off my lawn!”

Your Neighbor
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Your Neighbor
4 years ago

Why, oh why must we be so divided? We keep going round & round and still the trees get cut. Let’s stop this nonsense. Let the forests be. Logging families, the time is coming to a close, don’t blame the old man. Us old folks care about the trees, clean air and a better future for our heirs. Come on, break in through to the other side.

Central HumCo
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4 years ago
Reply to  Your Neighbor

“Why, oh why must we be so divided?”

We’ve been programmed as such to not realize we are as drops of rain that fall upon the ocean.

guest
Guest
guest
4 years ago
Reply to  Your Neighbor

Age does not magically create intelligence, rectitude or even sanity. A few learn from experience that they never were as right as they thought they were when they were young but most don’t.

Thirdeye
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Thirdeye
4 years ago

Running out of young cannon fodder from LA and the SF bay area?

Doctor Doom
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Doctor Doom
4 years ago
Reply to  Thirdeye

From the original Indian Killers now going to kill the trees as we kill the children’s futures maybe we done enough

Really?
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Really?
4 years ago
Reply to  Doctor Doom

The original Indian killers died off a hundred years ago along with the original Indians who burnt off the prairies to keep the trees from growing in them.

Central HumCo
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4 years ago
Reply to  Really?

~oh bunker.

Trees for the railroads is what turned the prairies into the Dust Bowl.

Guest
Guest
Guest
4 years ago
Reply to  Central HumCo

The railroad ties came mostly from shipped from Michigan, Minnesota and Northern California when the Transcontinental Railroad was built. But this comment was about the local natives keeping trees out to encourage forage for the animals they hunted. “What was initially perceived by colonists as “untouched, pristine” wilderness in North America, was actually the cumulative result of these occasional, managed fires creating an intentional mosaic of grasslands and forests across North America, sustained and managed by the original Peoples of the landbase.” https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Native_American_use_of_fire_in_ecosystems

Strike now spike now.
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Strike now spike now.
4 years ago
Reply to  Thirdeye

Maybe they were all spiking trees while you were distracted by the gate…

the misadventures of bunjee
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the misadventures of bunjee
4 years ago

I read in other places that the trucks simply used a different gate while these folks were protesting.

Paul
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Paul
4 years ago

Yeah right like I said let the old bastard sit and rot there he looks like on his final days anyway! Do these people really think what they do will matter??! Like someone else said they are protesting trees already harvested!! Get a clue it’s dont yours someone else owns it and leave what they want to do alone!

Central HumCo
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4 years ago
Reply to  Paul

Your people are driven by a terrible sense of deficiency. When the last tree is cut, the last fish is caught, and the last river is polluted; when to breathe the air is sickening, you will realize, too late, that wealth is not in bank accounts and that you can’t eat money.
https://quoteinvestigator.com/2011/10/20/last-tree-cut/

tax payer
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tax payer
4 years ago

what do they mean by snacks? plums and a little prune juice?

Ascutney
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Ascutney
4 years ago

He is my hero!

Jeffersonian
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Jeffersonian
4 years ago

This lumber co. Is getting exactly what it deserves and i wish its owners more bad luck in the future. There was no need for them to log that little stand of fir. They have at 1,000,000 acres of land all covered with growing timber, which by the way they are logging trees on at way too early an age and claiming they are ecoconcious.

nobody
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nobody
4 years ago

we need more people like him.

Somebody
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Somebody
4 years ago
Reply to  nobody

But then who would do the work that supports him in his old age?

margaret krefting
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margaret krefting
4 years ago

Now i watch out for the GAP cannabis farm to ruin what’s left of the real product. Gap has no taste in art or products.

Martin
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Martin
4 years ago

Stop giving these brainless parasites media coverage and they will go away. They are like blow flies on red meat. They should be arrested and fined for trespassing on private property. They never contribute anything, but bitch and scream about every thing!!!

Ceramic Spike
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Ceramic Spike
4 years ago
Reply to  Martin

Believe it or not there are plenty of people who work, pay their taxes and give back to their communities who disagree with you and more importantly the HRC. “Unemployed, hippie, commies, bums… Bitching about everything” It’s a broken record. And so unlike what you do.

And about those people that like to work and defend what they believe in; they have funding.

can't stand trespassers
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can't stand trespassers
4 years ago
Reply to  Ceramic Spike

Yeah. Their welfare check collected in the trailer court.

Central HumCo
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4 years ago

~not even close.

Syd
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Syd
4 years ago

Next time you light a fire in your fireplace, Buy boards to fix a fence, or build a house, store, hospital, etc. Remember where the lumber or firewood came from. HRC has the right to log on their own land. You do not have the right to tell them what to do or trespass. If it was your land and you paid taxes on it maybe then you would have a voice in it. Sorry but I come from a long line of timber workers. Suggestion use your own money to buy up all the land with the trees on it and watch them slowly die because they will just look at all the dead trees along our beautiful redwood highway. I respect your opinions and all of you should show a little more respect for each other. As the old guy chained to the gate what is going to get you. Madame Butterfly tried life in a tree and it did not stop anything so being chained to a gate is just as unsafe and stupid.

Central HumCo
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4 years ago
Reply to  Syd

~yes, it’s shows so much intelligence to log like it’s the 90s.

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Oceanbreeze
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Oceanbreeze
4 years ago

Having commitment to take non violent action to bring concerns to light is a valid and noble self sacrifice. Jack is a kind and compassionate being, same as many of those that work with and in the forest.
We should be finding middle ground, having conversations and really thinking about what is best for the next generations. I hope that day is not too far off.

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4 years ago

Oh the effort it takes the complete liberal to believe all the conflicting things required. You must blame corporations for all the greedy wealth they accumulated by logging and simultaneously demand that every immigrant who wants a share of that wealth should be free to come here and do the same things. You want simultaneously to house all the people of the world without wood, concrete or industrial farming disrupting nature. You must believe every poor person is an honest, hard working human deserving of free education, health care, housing, etc but people who are not poor don’t deserve the education, health care, housing, etc they work to pay for. You must believe, that, since peace is obviously better than war, it must be man’s natural state that can be brought about wanting it despite the evidence of history that is virtually one long conflict that includes liberal violence to get what they want. And talking about History! If you don’t like it, just edit it until it proves what you want it to prove. Life in liberal land must be one long Disneyland vacation.

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4 years ago
Reply to  Kym Kemp

Kudos, Kym! You said it! Couldn’t have put it better…

TQM
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TQM
4 years ago
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That sounds very Libertarian to me!

Joe dirt
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Joe dirt
4 years ago

Rainbow ridge is a very sensitive area parts of it have been mismanaged by allowing what would be considered second and third growth fir trees that need severe thinning out Landslide areas really steep terrain that is hard to manage once areas are clear-cut do not grow back the slides keep topsoil erosion happening and trees have a hard time getting a foothold in these areas from a foresters point of view there is a lot of work to do. then from a loggers point of view there’s a lot of money to be had. There is also a large amounts of what some people would consider intact old growth forest stands mostly fur but some redwood intermingled From an environmentalist point of view if we treat the planet and the ecosystem as a living entity maybe we have a chance the farthest Westward point in California the wildcat on the Lost coast also where the cascadian fault lines meet up where the cloud people gather creating a fog belt for most of the year which affects the climate in Ferndale eureka up the Van duzen river. By disturbing this area could move the air faster through making the fog and clouds dissipate changing the weather and climate in this whole area to a much hotter drier place peace and love to everybody in respect of the planet

Tommie Wilson
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Tommie Wilson
2 years ago

I havent said much publicly, but after reading all of the comments about logging vs. Environmental concerns , i will clue some of you to a few unknown or ignored factors. Consider that zinc oxides from galvanized metal (such as what is used in culverts that go under every inside corner of every road) kills moss. If you want evidence of this look on any mossy roof and note that wherever rain hits a galvanized flashing, from that point to the eves, no moss. So take the miles of roads x the number of culverts, seasonal or year round, x the hours of water flowing steadily to the ocean, what do you think this moss killer does to plankton and other micro organizms that are the first step on the food chain that salmon, and all other marine depend on. Is it easier to blame the logger, who must follow a government prescription, or be in breach of contract for erosion,( a natural occurance) for the declining fish populations? Furthermore those of you who are environmentally or commercially aligned throw your stones at each other, when in fact it is the governments prescription that is really the culprit. I say this because of my previous occupation, and the experience gained there. The forester will cruise an area and m
ark trees sually in a way th at leaves a
Point count per acre of a unit designated for harvest. The problem with this method, in my opinion is that while eveyone from the faller to the truckers try to do a clean job. Or face breach of contract woes, and while they are basically devestating the ribboned area…. wbhat is happening to the rest of the forest
? Where treesare continually pblown ldown by lthe wind or old agel or leaning to hepavily during pextreme wet weather. Thse treesare left to rot on the forst floor for years and years. Alnpd ill say this als
O tat moe timer falls and rots on the ground annually than man has ever taken. Look for yourselves. I fell timber for 45 years. And i am a friend of earth first. We have had talks about this and they agree with me, that if we covered the entire forest and only took trees that needed harvesting, wpithin twenty years you would not see two stumps close enough to jump. Each tree competes against the others
And in that environment, they thrive. I will have more to say laer on, but pleasedigeest this info and be proactive
. Thank you.