SAVE THE REDWOODS

Along the northern coast,
Just back from the rock-bound shore, and the caves,
In the saline air from the sea, in the Mendocino country,
With the surge for bass and accompaniment low and hoarse,
With crackling blows of axes, sounding musically, driven by strong arms,
Riven deep by the sharp tongues of the axes—there in the Redwood forest dense,
I heard the mighty tree its death-chant chanting.
—Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass

The destruction of California’s once vast and magnificent redwood forests is entwined with American expansion westward, violent dispossession, and the ravenous commodification of nature. The remaining redwoods demand our protection.

Urgent: An Appeal To the Governor

Read: Forests, Logging, Climate

Coyote Valley Pomo

“Our view of a sustainable forest is a forest that sustains our culture, values and way of life, not one that is managed in order to be cut for profit. As such, we placed a wilderness easement on our Intertribal park lands in order to prohibit in perpetuity any commercial logging there . . .”
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Voices: Jackson State Forest

Here Professors Susanna Hecht, Institute of Environment and Sustainability, UCLA, and William Russell, Environmental Studies, San Jose State University, add their voices to the discussion concerning the Future of Jackson Demonstration State Forest. The interviews were produced for KZYX, Mendocino County Community Listener Supported Radio by Loreto Rojas and Cal Winslow.