Protesters Began Blocking Scotia Mill at Noon Today
Group shot of Mattole forest defenders from the Instagram account blockade.babes
Please remember that information gathered from initial reports is subject to revision as more facts become available.
KMUD News’s Lauren Schmitt interviewed long time forest defender Bob Murphy who explained protesters have closed two gates into the Scotia Mill by locking themselves to a triangle of bicycles. The lockdown began around noon. A sheriff had arrived at about 1 p.m. asking them to please remove themselves. Protesters were disinclined to acquiesce to that request.
Murphy said the protest is a response to Humboldt Redwood Company’s ongoing logging in “unentered forest” stands on Rainbow Ridge in the Mattole watershed. Murphy described these areas as having not been logged before and having no previous roads built into them. He said it was particularly egregious that HRC markets this timber as sustainable and “refuses to acknowledge this as High Value Conservation” timber.
Murphy said they are also protesting Green Diamond Timber Company’s ongoing use of clearcut timber harvesting practices.
Earlier Chapters:
- Two Protestors Arrested at Rainbow Ridge Logging Blockade
- Protesters Say They Are Locking to Gate to Stop Logging After Humboldt Redwoods Company Removed Tripod Sitter
- Man Protesting Logging Rainbow Ridge Describes Ordeal
- Demonstrators Picketed Humboldt Redwoods Company Yesterday in Hopes of Stopping Logging Planned for the Rainbow Ridge Area
- Truckers and Protesters Concerned About Plans to Log Rainbow Ridge Clashed Near Scotia Mill Yesterday
- Sheriff’s Office Warns Logging Protesters Near Rainbow Ridge This Morning
- Timber Fallers on Rainbow Ridge, Protesters Again at Monument Gate
- ‘Elders Defend Elders,’ Say Activists as Four Arrested This Morning Trying to Stop Logging on Rainbow Ridge
- ‘Fight to Save Rainbow Ridge Continues: Rally at Monument Gate and a Second Tree Sitter in the Mattole,’ Says Earth First! Humboldt
- ‘Fight to Save Rainbow Ridge Continues: Rally at Monument Gate and a Second Tree Sitter in the Mattole,’ Says Earth First! Humboldt
- Sheriff’s Office Says Claims of Trip Wire Near Treesit Unfounded; Rainbow Ridge Protesters Say One Treesitter Arrested
- Earth First! Humboldt Vows Continued Protest But Treesitter Leaves Perch on Rainbow Ridge
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Dude was high as a kite.
🕯🌳This is the results of that one lone tree sitter.🌳👍🏽🤯
Generally that’s the effect someone has tossing a pebble into a pond.
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Why are they wearing masks? This crap just costs us all money. I bet the unentered forest has many entrances, and just go around them. And what will the end result be, wasted time and resources, the trees will be cut down, and the forest becomes more healthy. These things do not impress our students, they have learned logging is very healthy for the forest. Shove in the dogs, to let your chain hog, before you can think, you’ve made another log!
Not true. All you need to do is take a walk in an old growth forest, then take a walk in a 3rd or 4th gen forest. If you’ve never been in an old growth forest there are plenty within driving distance.
The one on the left is on the right. Y’ALL Califolk don’t need any trees anyways.
“A sheriff had arrived at about 1 p.m. ”
There’s one Sheriff per county – Sheesh.
I applaud the people who are looking out for our resources and forests. not a great stand to make in this day and age, but there needs to be better oversite. We must manage our forest to help deter fires, but we must also retain our old growth. it is a thin line for sure.
Actually it is not at all a thin line. Forest can be “maintained” with no logging at all, in terns of fire management. A limited amount of material CAN be removed as part of fire management but it doesn’t have to be. In fact it is better for the forest to let the material burn in place, and return the carbon and minerals to the soil.
Humboldt Redwood is as bad as Hurwitz. They harvest trees that are way too young and market it as high quality when in reality its junk. Now they are after that little stand of old fir on rainbow. They claim they are environmentally conscious. Thats what all these companies do these days. Its just a big smoke screen. These are non resident owners. They dont really care. Similar to the bs pacific choice seafoods pedals.
When will you quit listening to the bullshit these wannabes environment savers spew…all of that area was logged in the 50s and 60s…there is no old growth just some trees 80 years old…NOT OLD GROWTH… get a friggin clue. By protesting you do nothing constructive. Complain about the pot growers depleting runs of salmon,kings,coho,and steelhead trout. Fucking enough already.
Actually there’s still 5% of old-growth left. I’d say by that little of a number, it seems worth it to fight for & protect.
Actually past logging is one of the main reasons for the decline in salmonids. Two of the main things are that logging deposited massive amounts of sediment that buried spawning beds, and removed riparian cover causing creeks and rivers to heat up. Maybe if you had all the facts in front of you you would think differently. There is a wealth of information pertaining to this issue that can be found on the web.
Nothing to do with water being diverted to vineyards and golf courses of central and southern california….
That was an arguable case 40 years ago but not today. Sediment moves through the stream system to the ocean. Sediment inputs today are the lowest of any time for which historical records are available and have been declining for over 40 years. What we have now is a huge amount of oceanic predation on salmon runs because of the dramatic rise in the population of sea lions since the 1970s. Go to the mouth of the Mattole during a strong salmon run and you will see the sea lions having a big party. Hatcheries are basically in the business of raising sea lion food.
Do you have a book or an article on the sediment in the stream systems? I have believed the contrary and would really be interested in proof otherwise. That’s very interesting.
I agree, Steve!!!
It’s a stretch, but it would make more sense to protest out front of Dazeys, or any other grow op store, considering the chickenpocking of grow scenes that now interrupt much of the previous forestland connectivity across our northern counties, not to mention the serious cultural miasma that has taken hold concomitantly.
So good luck protesters. it just seems like the story never ends, always a new batch of obsessed tree converts.
I was involved in the late 90s, so I get it, but it definately seems inefective considering all the other outrageous challenges we face.
So good luck
grassy hilltops intermixed with Douglas fir canyons are pretty great
They must work for great employers to give them time off for this. (Sarc). Work? These jackasses?
Someone should check and see if they get public assistance, and if so they are not engaging in looking for work,getting stoned and protesting such a life we are paying for…
Typical one way process thinking. Not necessarily an activist myself but any activist I ever met, I met them at work, cooking, cleaning, volunteering, or attending college. Not one of them was ever unemployed, at least not for long. I had admired their commitment to their beliefs on top of theif full time jobs.
Where is that trucker than ran through the line last time! These protesters are such idiots. Go Home. You are not wanted .
I seen firsthand the last 2 protests. Both times they used elderly or disabled gentlemen locked to gates/ bicycles to make their point. While 20 -30 yr olds are off to the side taking pictures. I witnessed HRC employees offer water , which was refused. They use elderly for shock value but only want to take pictures
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