So, What's Up with Headwaters Forest? The Latest News and Calls to Action!

Want an introduction to the Headwaters Forest issue? You can't do any better than reading this 1995 essay (recently revised) by EF! Media Center Director Andy Caffrey: "Partners in Crime: Bill Clinton, Pete Wilson, Wall Street and the Death of the Redwood Forest"

THE BEST Headwaters Forest web site for beginners and media! I don't know yet who has put this web site together at net-code.com, but it rocks! It is extremely well organized, seems to be constantly updated, and links to the best from the other Headwaters sites

KRIS Coho--The Klamath Resource Information System (KRIS) is a computer program that allows easy access to data tables, charts, photographs and bibliographic materials related to a watershed or specific location. KRIS also operates seamlessly with ArcView to show information spatially. KRIS Coho is the first application of KRIS outside of the Klamath River basin. It was compiled to supply information to the public and management agencies to help them evaluate the Pacific Lumber Company (PALCO) Habitat Conservation Plan (HCP). It consists of all the available fisheries and water quality data in the public domain, and an electronic map system.

The PALCO HCP was produced by the company as part of the Headwaters Forest deal and to meet the requirements of the U.S. Endangered Species Act (ESA). Residing on PALCO lands are the coho salmon, marbled murrelet and spotted owl, all currently listed as threatened under the ESA. If adopted, the HCP will shape the management of the company's forests for the next 50 years. Despite the importance of this document, the public and most agency personnel evaluating the plan have not had access to raw data relating to habitat conditions and trends. This precludes independent assessment of the conclusions in the HCP. KRIS will enable everyone to evaluate the HCP based on the best available science. These web pages are designed to explain the significance of each topic in KRIS Coho, describe the different types of information contained in the system, and evaluate the PALCO HCP.

Headwaters Forest Project--An excellent site produced by Bay Area Action and the Headwaters Forest Sanctuary Project. Provides much of the content used at the other sites! Bravo!

Headwaters Forest Earth First! The site produced for the Earth First! Headwaters Forest local group. Unfortunately, the site is usually extremely outdated and often confuses people by continuously posting obsolete announcements. The news section, for example, hasn't been updated since Sept. 1997. Please double check info. from this site before coming out to base camp, attending rallies, etc.

Jail MAXXAM CEO Charles Hurwitz!

Pie MAXXAM CEO Charles Hurwitz! Read the story of EF!er Al Decker's pieing of Charlie Hurwitz, S&L looter and destroyer of the last of the Ancient Redwood Forest.

Non-violent Pepper-Spray Victims Archive at Bay Area Action

Julia Butterfly Hill, an extraordinary woman, has taken roost 180 feet up in an ancient redwood tree, Luna, which sprouted during the last millennium. Julia has not set foot on the ground yet in 1998. She is protesting the S&L-looting, Redwood Extincter Charles Hurwitz and his MAXXAM Corp. which took over the Pacific Lumber company in the mid-80s and has proceeded to liquidate the last of the old-growth redwood groves, except the stands which comprise the Headwaters Forest complex. Here are three web sites dedicated to Julia. If you would like to then purchase the Luna treesit video, and help out the EF! Media Center, then click here.

• Luna Media Services
• The Original Luna web site--revised
• Photos of the Luna tree sit

Mendocino Environmental Center

Change Magazine Earth First! section

Alternatives To Old Growth--prepared by the Rainforest Action Network

Redwood Rock! A site of lyric rewrites for the redwoods of BiG HiTs by Madonna, Michael jackson, Carly Simon, Bruce Springsteen, Elvis Presley and more!

Forest Workers Union, Local #1, IWW--Outside Agitators have invaded Northern California! These invaders are multinational timber corporations like Georgia Pacific, Louisiana Pacific, and MAXXAM. Aided by the Federal Government, these unaccountable corporate criminals are taking jobs, hurting the environment, and literally destroying rural communities. This site has been established to offer resources for these communities in hopes that they can organize and defend themselves. This site also has a specific web page on The Crimes of MAXXAM and Charles Hurwitz.

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Last updated August 15, 1999