Life Preserver
The Buckeye Conservancy floated the idea when they were preparing their 2003 report, but according to Rodoni they were looking for a solution that could be applied throughout Humboldt County. Unfortunately, the legislative changes they were proposing, which would have extended the duration of THPs as well as expand the acreage limits for Nonindustrial Timber Management Plans, weren’t successful. Rodoni describes the council’s proposal as “a different approach to solving the same problem.”
PTEIRs have been around since 1996, according to Zuckerman, and the council is not the first organization to put one into place. He cites the Hearst Corporation’s PTEIR for their timber holdings and the Mendocino Redwood Company, which is in the process of developing a comprehensive PTEIR for its approximately 228,500 acres of Northern California redwood and Douglas fir forest. But the council’s project would be the first watershed-wide PTEIR specifically designed to alleviate the problems facing small timberland owners.
Still, reducing administrative costs for small landowners is just the tip of the iceberg. For family logging operations like Stansberry’s, it will still be an uphill battle no matter what. Once upon a time, it was possible to make a living as a rancher or a logger in the Mattole watershed, but over time costs have outpaced profits. The 62-year-old explains that he’s worried about how an inheritance tax will affect his son when the land becomes his eventually. What will he have to do then, Stansberry wonders aloud — clearcut to pay for the taxes or break up the property into 600-acre trophy ranches for the super rich? Only time will tell.
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