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Tell CAL FIRE to Protect Old-Growth Redwoods
A Timber Harvest Plan that proposes logging of up to 64 old-growth coast redwoods and valuable wildlife trees off Highway 9 in San Mateo County is under review by CAL FIRE.
Please join me in urging CAL FIRE to protect old-growth redwoods.
What's Happening
A Timber Harvest Plan (THP 1-16-080 SMO (Stoddard)) that proposes logging of up to 64 old-growth coast redwoods and valuable wildlife trees off Highway 9 in San Mateo County is under review by CAL FIRE. If this plan is approved, all but 13 out of 87 old-growth and wildlife trees on this 40-acre parcel will be logged. Join me in asking CAL FIRE to insist on a revised plan that fully protects all of the old-growth and wildlife trees.
What You Can Do
Only about 5% of the original old-growth redwood forest remains in the Santa Cruz Mountains. Redwoods are remarkable for their longevity, resistance to fire, insects, and disease, and for their majestic beauty. Old-growth redwoods provide habitat for diverse wildlife species, capture more CO2 than any other tree on earth, and inspire us with their size and beauty. Logging the old-growth redwoods on this 40-acre property is not the only viable option for this landowner. A Conservation Easement that permanently protects the old-growth trees while allowing timber harvesting of the rest of the forest could be of substantial economic benefit to the landowner. Three adjacent properties already have Conservation Easements on them. Purchase of the entire property by Midpeninsula Regional Open Space District is another option.
Thanks for joining me in speaking up to protect our irreplaceable old-growth redwoods. Your voice does make a difference!
Sincerely,
Lennie Roberts
Legislative Advocate
Sample message: Please make changes below and tell CAL FIRE why this matters to you.
Committee for Green Foothills
Protecting open space, farmlands, and natural resources through advocacy, education, and community empowerment in Santa Clara and San Mateo counties since 1962.
Local, Vocal, Effective
What's Happening
A Timber Harvest Plan (THP 1-16-080 SMO (Stoddard)) that proposes logging of up to 64 old-growth coast redwoods and valuable wildlife trees off Highway 9 in San Mateo County is under review by CAL FIRE. If this plan is approved, all but 13 out of 87 old-growth and wildlife trees on this 40-acre parcel will be logged. Join me in asking CAL FIRE to insist on a revised plan that fully protects all of the old-growth and wildlife trees.
What You Can Do
- Email CAL FIRE (please edit the email and let them know why this matters to you)
Only about 5% of the original old-growth redwood forest remains in the Santa Cruz Mountains. Redwoods are remarkable for their longevity, resistance to fire, insects, and disease, and for their majestic beauty. Old-growth redwoods provide habitat for diverse wildlife species, capture more CO2 than any other tree on earth, and inspire us with their size and beauty. Logging the old-growth redwoods on this 40-acre property is not the only viable option for this landowner. A Conservation Easement that permanently protects the old-growth trees while allowing timber harvesting of the rest of the forest could be of substantial economic benefit to the landowner. Three adjacent properties already have Conservation Easements on them. Purchase of the entire property by Midpeninsula Regional Open Space District is another option.
Thanks for joining me in speaking up to protect our irreplaceable old-growth redwoods. Your voice does make a difference!
Sincerely,
Lennie Roberts
Legislative Advocate
Sample message: Please make changes below and tell CAL FIRE why this matters to you.
Dear CAL FIRE,
I'm writing to ask that THP 1-16-080 SMO be revised to fully protect all of the Old Growth and wildlife redwoods.
Only about 5% of the original Old Growth redwood forest remains in the Santa Cruz Mountains. Redwoods are remarkable for their longevity, resistance to fire, insects, and disease, and for their majestic beauty. Old Growth redwoods provide habitat for diverse wildlife species, capture more CO2 than any other tree on earth, and inspire us with their size, longevity and beauty.
Logging the Old Growth redwoods on this 40-acre property is not the only viable option for this landowner.
Thank you,
Committee for Green Foothills
Protecting open space, farmlands, and natural resources through advocacy, education, and community empowerment in Santa Clara and San Mateo counties since 1962.
Local, Vocal, Effective
For more information:
http://www.greenfoothills.org/
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For the past year that I have been living out on River Street, I have seen many flatbed trucks carrying as many as (roughly) 6-10 large (mature) redwoods of various sizes, freshly cut and being hauled west on Route 1.
I know this is a slightly different aspect of the issue that Lennie is addressing here, probably, and I have wanted to notify the appropriate people about these sightings of cut trees and inquire as to the legality of this practice that I am witnessing only a part of as I wait on the corner of the Route 1 intersection.
These trees turned into dead or un-trees, did not look unhealthy, (except now they were cut forever) and they had obviously been cut fairly recently and were being hauled out west to be taken to...where?
To some processing facility? Where? Out on the coast? (Does anyone know more about this rape of the earth and who is allowing it or making money from it?)
I always see this awful dreaded sight in the morning.
I have always been upset by this sight, as each redwood tree is vital and necessary to keep all the other redwoods and the ecosystem they thrive in alive, especially now in the time of climate change.
Also, it may be that we are losing many more of these unique trees I to drought as they are (generally) extremely dry these days and losing a lot of their leaves. While they are not producing as many, I have observed. I sit under the redwood trees often in the forests, and observe them.
Once, I also spotted a truck hauling the same kinds of cut redwood trees further west on Mission Street near Bay Street -at that intersection a little further west of my other sightings.
The driver's are always looking straight ahead, as if they do not want a confrontation. But we need to save all the redwood trees in this region, Santa Cruz.
dogwood
I know this is a slightly different aspect of the issue that Lennie is addressing here, probably, and I have wanted to notify the appropriate people about these sightings of cut trees and inquire as to the legality of this practice that I am witnessing only a part of as I wait on the corner of the Route 1 intersection.
These trees turned into dead or un-trees, did not look unhealthy, (except now they were cut forever) and they had obviously been cut fairly recently and were being hauled out west to be taken to...where?
To some processing facility? Where? Out on the coast? (Does anyone know more about this rape of the earth and who is allowing it or making money from it?)
I always see this awful dreaded sight in the morning.
I have always been upset by this sight, as each redwood tree is vital and necessary to keep all the other redwoods and the ecosystem they thrive in alive, especially now in the time of climate change.
Also, it may be that we are losing many more of these unique trees I to drought as they are (generally) extremely dry these days and losing a lot of their leaves. While they are not producing as many, I have observed. I sit under the redwood trees often in the forests, and observe them.
Once, I also spotted a truck hauling the same kinds of cut redwood trees further west on Mission Street near Bay Street -at that intersection a little further west of my other sightings.
The driver's are always looking straight ahead, as if they do not want a confrontation. But we need to save all the redwood trees in this region, Santa Cruz.
dogwood
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