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Clearcuts west of Mt. Lassen. These represent only a small percentage of the many 20 acre holes scarring the watersheds from central California to the Oregon border.

Stop Clearcutting California!

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State Policy Makers and Agencies
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Northern California's watersheds are being clearcut at a rapid rate. The worst offender, Sierra Pacific Industries (SPI), is the largest landowner in the state.  SPI began massive clearcutting of its lands about 10 years ago.  One quarter million acres have already been converted into monoculture tree farms, and their plan is to destroy 1 million acres of land that contains ecosystems that took millennia to create.  In the face of a changing world, the " 'whack 'em and stack 'em " practice of clearcutting is completely outdated as well as dangerous to the future of our water, air climate and wildlife.  More info: http://www.thebattlecreekalliance.org/ http://www.stopclearcuttingcalifornia.org/

Northern California's watersheds are being clearcut at a rapid rate. The worst offender, Sierra Pacific Industries (SPI), is the largest landowner in the state.  SPI began massive clearcutting of its lands about 10 years ago.  One quarter million acres have already been converted into monoculture tree farms, and their plan is to destroy 1 million acres of land that contains ecosystems that took millennia to create.  In the face of a changing world, the " 'whack 'em and stack 'em " practice of clearcutting is completely outdated as well as dangerous to the future of our water, air climate and wildlife.  More info: http://www.thebattlecreekalliance.org/ http://www.stopclearcuttingcalifornia.org/

We the undersigned, believe that industrial-scale clearcutting is:

Converting California%u2019s diverse forests into fire-prone tree plantations

Threatening water quality and quantity

Promoting extensive use of chemical herbicides

Contributing to local and global climate change

Endangering wildlife and their habitat

Damaging private property values and public land values regionally

We call on the State policy makers and State and Federal Agencies to use all means at their disposal to end the destructive practice of clearcutting.

Thank you for your attention to this vital issue.

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# 151:
12:46 pm PDT, Oct 26, Madyuly Velazquez, Florida
# 150:
4:30 pm PDT, Oct 20, Michelle Waters, California
# 149:
11:55 am PDT, Oct 18, Darin Scherer, Kentucky
# 148:
5:49 pm PDT, Oct 15, Rhonda L. Breshears, California
Stop destroying my home!
# 147:
4:10 pm PDT, Oct 15, Connie Link, Ohio
# 146:
10:06 pm PDT, Oct 6, Carol Nelson, California
# 145:
4:42 pm PDT, Sep 27, Nadia Davidovich, Argentina
SAVE OUR PLANET!!!!!!!!!!!!
# 144:
7:09 pm PDT, Sep 26, Raven Lipmanson, California
Please use sustainabe forestry practices.
# 143:
2:40 pm PDT, Sep 24, Don Lipmanson, California
Had we known about SPI's clearcutting practices, we would not have bought a couple dozen of their windows and sliding doors, PR for which heavily emphasized environmental concerns. I was fooled into believing that the hype about the windows reflected a change in philosophy by a corporation with a reputation for poor forest practices. I would have loved to recommend these very attractive and well-built windows to other homebuilders, but will not do so until SPI abandons its cumulatively massive clearcutting.
# 141:
7:35 am PDT, Sep 18, Phillip Ebert, California
Stop senseless clearcutting.
# 140:
5:54 pm PDT, Sep 17, Name not displayed, California
# 139:
10:59 am PDT, Sep 16, Kimberly Tilley, Idaho
# 138:
4:59 pm PDT, Sep 14, DOUG Smith, California
I Spend My days in clearcuts in northern california where the leave trees of oak are hack and squirted with herbicides to kill them. The private forests are burnt over and standing waiting to burn dead oaks by the hundreds of acres where people once gathered acorns and madrone berries as a dayly food source. The forest is trurned into a dezert once the sun and frost beats them down. A clearcut is not a hospitible place for any one.
# 137:
4:45 am PDT, Sep 12, M L, Pennsylvania
# 136:
4:37 am PDT, Sep 12, J M, Pennsylvania
# 135:
4:27 am PDT, Sep 12, Eli Is Here, Pennsylvania
# 134:
11:23 pm PDT, Sep 11, Hank Raymond, California
# 133:
1:00 pm PDT, Sep 5, Aileen Low, Delaware
Dont let global warming kill our planet
# 132:
3:35 pm PDT, Sep 4, Shandon Schmeiske, California
# 131:
10:35 am PDT, Sep 3, Name not displayed, California
There are better ways. . .
# 130:
1:01 pm PDT, Sep 1, Name not displayed, California
# 129:
7:37 pm PDT, Aug 31, Carl Rosenstock, Wisconsin
# 128:
7:30 am PDT, Aug 31, June Gifford, California
I can't believe we continue to clear cut our forests. The idea that we can manage forests in the short term is crazy. Denuding our forests is not worth the money. When are we going to get it that we need our natural resources for something other than money.
# 127:
2:56 pm PDT, Aug 30, Name not displayed, California
It's time to strengthen forest practices in California.
# 126:
9:22 pm PDT, Aug 29, Dorothy Robinson, California
# 125:
8:18 pm PDT, Aug 28, Vanessa Garvy, Illinois
# 124:
6:49 pm PDT, Aug 28, David Yoder, California
Clear cutting the forest destroys the environment for wildlife and causes vast erosion of the soil which muddies up the rivers effecting the fish and all who use the river.
# 123:
6:15 pm PDT, Aug 28, Name not displayed, California
# 122:
2:35 pm PDT, Aug 28, Sherrill Futrell, California
Why are we still having to beg for this? Why are you allowing this company to rape our state? Shame on you.
# 121:
11:41 am PDT, Aug 28, Katheryn Uccello, California
I can't believe clearcutting is still happening in California. Forests are more than a sum of their board feet.
# 120:
7:20 pm PDT, Aug 27, Frank Gerry, Florida
We must save our great forests.
# 119:
12:20 pm PDT, Aug 27, Lee Pettenger, California
# 118:
11:11 am PDT, Aug 27, Rhoda Nussbaum, California
# 117:
10:12 am PDT, Aug 27, Name not displayed, California
I am concerned at the vast areas of California's forest lands being converted from a biologically diverse area sustaining a variety of plants and animals, to a tree farm, with loss of so many other forms of life. I am also concerned with the affect on our water as soil and herbicides run off during the conversion process.
# 116:
8:44 pm PDT, Aug 26, Marc Vayssieres, California
After a forest is clearcut, logging companies typically use bulldozing and repeated, intensive herbicide applications to wipe out whatever manages to survive. Then they fertilize the area and replant it with rows of evenly spaced, same-age, same-species pine trees. According to Harvard biologist E.O. Wilson, a single-species pine plantation contains 90 to 95% fewer species than the forest that preceded it. Clearcuts make it impossible for some species to migrate, find shelter or locate food. Half of California’s plants and animals make their home in the Sierras—including more than 400 species of terrestrial vertebrates and over 320 species of aquatic invertebrates. As tree plantations replace natural forests, much of this diversity is being damaged or destroyed.
# 115:
8:31 pm PDT, Aug 26, Debby Driscoll, California
# 114:
8:27 pm PDT, Aug 26, Lisa Barrett, California
# 113:
7:28 pm PDT, Aug 26, Name not displayed, California
# 112:
7:21 pm PDT, Aug 26, John Turner, California
Clear-cutting forests contributes to acceleration of climate change. In British Columbia through Alberta, the weather has changed because clear-cutting has reduced the amount of water vapor returned to the atmosphere; the streams are running warmer which in turn changes the ecosystem of the streams.
# 111:
5:22 pm PDT, Aug 26, Julia Sanchez, California
# 110:
4:47 pm PDT, Aug 26, Lori Manon Franzman, California
# 109:
4:39 pm PDT, Aug 26, Constantina Economou, California
# 108:
4:12 pm PDT, Aug 26, Linnea Fronce & Thomas Hall, California
Decades of clearcuts have shown that they are destructive to wildlife habitat, cause erosion, leave dead wood to cause fires, adversely affect our water supply. Only when the last tree is cut down, the last forest creature is extinct, will we realize what we have lost. It won't be SPI that is hurt, they will have their stacks of money; but it will be our grandchildren and their future that is hurt.
# 107:
3:06 pm PDT, Aug 26, William Buchholz, California
The only legitimate and responsible method of logging is to follow the Forest Stewardship Council's (FSC) harvesting rules, which requires an independent third-party certifier to verify the harvesting plan. Anything less than that is irresponsible. See www.FSCUS.org
# 106:
3:01 pm PDT, Aug 26, Warren Carlson, California
Clearcutting induces high rates of evaporation and permanent loss of water needed by California crops, cities and aquatic life.
# 105:
2:26 pm PDT, Aug 26, Rose Coldenhoff, California
Let's get the word out to all who will listen and maybe we will reach 'the tipping point' to this destructive behavior toward our earth. RC
# 104:
2:02 pm PDT, Aug 26, Nancy Price, California
# 103:
1:23 pm PDT, Aug 26, Alan Colombano, California
Last week, when flying from Calgary to San Francisco, I saw first hand the ugly clearcuts throughout the northern Sierra. I also noticed that they were not near any roads and could not be seen from the ground. It seemed that each cut had a few trees left in the middle to repopulate the whole area. Is this any way to run a forest?
# 102:
12:41 pm PDT, Aug 26, Holly Bishop, California
If you did not plant it. You should not cut it down.
# 101:
12:34 pm PDT, Aug 26, Bruce MacKenzie, California
With global warming increasing we should not destroy any more of our carbon sink by clear cutting. Removing dead trees is a better way.
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