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Given the redwood forest’s overall condition, shouldn’t habitat restoration, endangered species’ recruitment and retention of older trees be a top priority? Refugia like the McKay tract may provide a crucial stabilizing buffer to climate change.
Finally, trees grow trees. If Green Diamond really wants to shine, they should let more of their second growth keep growing — into old growth. Then, if the four principles of good forestry (no cutting old growth, no clearcuts, no herbicides and no steep slopes) are observed, there’ll be no more need for treesitters. Earth First!
Naomi Wagner, Petrolia
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Railroad!
Proposed lines ‘set rich blood a-tingling’ in early 1900s
Some Other Proposed North Coast Railroads
Choo-choo Fantasies
Exposing this east-west rail nonsense
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Undeterred Will
Will chides Andrew for lack of attention to detail and makes plans for his inevitable victory.
Today
44th Annual Kinetic Grand Championship Race
STAFF PICK / events, art, outdoors, sports, for kids, free / 9 a.m.-6 p.m. A 3-day, 42-mile kinetic sculpture race over land, sand, mud and water! LeMans start at the Noon Whistle on the Arcata Plaza. Follow the race through Manila, Eureka and into Ferndale on Memorial Day for the Glorious Finish. kineticgrandchampionship.com. 889-3024.
Flow 2012 Fashion Show
STAFF PICK / events / 8 p.m. Arcata Theatre Lounge, 1036 G St. Student designed and produced clothing. Fundraiser for Arcata Arts Institute. $35/$25 students. artsinstitute.net. 822-1220.
Woodside Preschool's Rummage/Bake Sale
events / 8 a.m.-noon. Woodside Preschool, 900 Hodgson St, Eureka. www.woodsidepreschool.com. 445-9132.
Lanphere Dunes Restoration
STAFF PICK / outdoors / 9:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Meet at Pacific Union School. Help remove non-native invasives at the Lanphere Dunes Unit of the Humboldt Bay National Wildlife Refuge. Tools and gloves provided, wear work clothes and bring water. Carpool to the protected site. 444-1397.
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SIX Comments
Comment / By Shunka Wakan / June 11, 2009, 5:18 a.m.
Good points, Naomi, it’s just too bad that you have also been a traitor to the Earth First! movement. Naomi teamed up with a fellow calling himself “Water,” to publish a newsletter for North Coast Earth First! I made the mistake of trying to help, in the early days, only to find that Water was paying his friends to do editing and layout, and was not allowing the group to proofread the newsletters before they were sent out to the public. Naomi admitted that Water was playing a “shell game” with Earth First! donations, using the money to fund other projects he was involved in, and providing little financial support to the active NCEF! campaigns. Meetings were held, and the end result was a consensus (minus Naomi) that Water and Naomi cease and desist publishing their misrepresentative newsletter, and to return the mailing list to the active group, yet those consensus decisions were ignored by Naomi and Water, and I continue to hear reports of more newsletters being published by this dynamic duo. When I realized what was going on with the newsletter, and had my own negative experiences with Water’s pompous attitude, I stopped helping out with the newsletter and reported on what I had seen to the Earth First! group. I refused to carry the newsletters on the Earth First! table, yet I was still allowing Naomi to use the office to work on her defense to the Maxxam/PL S.L.A.P.P. suits that she was involved in at the time. Once she decided to settle out of the suits, she made one last attempt to get me to carry the newsletters, which I refused to do. She would often call and complain that she felt ostracized from the NCEF! group, and I told her that this would not change until she stopped working with Water on these newsletters that did not accurately represent the NCEF! movement. She became very angry at this statement, began yelling at me over the phone, and then proceeded to call up the Trees Foundation (this is where it gets good). She phoned the Trees Foundation, as a “representative of North Coast Earth First!,” and requested that NCEF! be removed as affiliates, so that the funding for the office I was running could be cut! Talk about a vengeful person, eh?!?! This may or may not have been done in anticipation of the lawsuit brought by the donor, as I had told Naomi that we had received a very large donation, or at least we were supposed to. Once this was done, the Trees Foundation tried to flush NCEF! down the memory hole, by denying that it had ever “supported nor given funding to North Coast Earth First!” in their perjerous defense to the lawsuit brought by the donor who tried to donate $185,000 to NCEF! Nice try, Naomi, yet the truth is that you have also been a traitor to the movement, a hypocrite when it comes to following consensus decisions, and a conspirator with the Trees Foundation to rob NCEF! of our once-in-a-lifetime donation of $185,000. Sad but true.
Comment / By Thirdeye / June 11, 2009, 7:08 p.m.
This pissing match is amusing. Stupidly amusing.
Comment / By Shunka Wakan / June 12, 2009, 9:49 a.m.
Not a pissing match, just the facts. Maybe the stupidly amusing part is all you; to many of us, these issues are anything but amusing.
Comment / By brian / June 14, 2009, 3:21 p.m.
They’re not people, they’re hippies.
Comment / By Shunka Wakan / June 16, 2009, 3:53 a.m.
Wow, that’s intelligent, Brian.
Been watchin’ too much Southpark there, buddy?
Comment / By brian / June 17, 2009, 9:11 p.m.
LOL………….errrr, thanks?