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Elected Officials and
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State Senators |
Don Perata, Wesley
Chesbro, Joe Simitian, Debra Bowen, Gilbert Sedillo |
Urges management for
habitat and enhancement of public trust resources, and calls for
"reasonable and secure funding" for Jackson Forest operations. |
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Mendocino County Board of
Supervisors |
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Endorses Alternative
D of the Environmental Impact Report, rather than the state's
proposed management plan. Urges sustainable funding for forest
management |
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Fort Bragg City
Council |
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Endorses Alternative
D of the Environmental Impact Report, rather than the state's
proposed management plan. Also recommends longer growing cycles (
80-120 years) for timber management. Urges sustainable funding for
forest management. |
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Individuals and Organizations |
Kathy Bailey
Kathy Bailey - supplemental |
Kathy Bailey has lived in Anderson
Valley, Mendocino County, since 1971 and has been active in
forest-related issues since 1976. She was California Sierra
Club's principal spokesperson on state-regulated forest issues for
around ten years until her "retirement" from that volunteer position
in 2003. She intends to work on Jackson Forest until real
progress has been achieved. |
Bailey finds that significant
information about the extent and location of existing old forest
stands at Jackson is completely absent making planning for habitat
and analysis of alternatives impossible. A habitat map that is
provided is so muddled that it has caused CDF to conclude there is
marbled murrelet habitat where there is not. Also, at least
two significantly contradictory sets of habitat
information are used in the EIR. |
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Peter Baye, Ph.D. |
Peter Baye is a
professional plant ecologist and botanist (Ph.D., University of
Western Ontario, Canada), specializing in
the study and conservation of terrestrial and wetland coastal
plant species, communities, and their ecosystems, for over 27
years.
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Baye
found the DEIR was extremely
difficult to read even for professional reviewers. The body of the
DEIR was similar to a technical appendix,
and lacked plain-language discussion of impacts supported by
specific information about Jackson State Forest itself. Instead, the
DEIR substituted highly technical
background discussions, general in scope (like review of scientific
literature) for an actual, specific assessment of impacts. The
DEIR obscured more than it assessed. |
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California Native Plant Society |
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Paul Carroll |
Paul Carroll has won all five legal
motions filed against the Department of Forestry and the Board of
Forestry in the Campaign's legal actions to reform management of
Jackson Forest. |
Carroll finds the EIR
to err fundamentally in important ways. |
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Environmental
Protection Information Center (EPIC) |
Lindsey Holm reviews Timber Harvest
Plans for EPIC. |
Holm finds
that the EIR does not adequately describe marbled murrelet habitat
and the definition for late seral forest is too unclear to be
meaningful. Lack of precision leads to the
inability to plan for retaining and developing late seral habitat in
general and marbled murrelet recovery habitat in particular.
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Richard
Grassetti |
Mr.
Grassetti is an environmental planner with over 22 years of
experience in environmental impact analysis, hydrologic and geologic
assessment, project management, and regulatory compliance. He has
managed the preparation of over 50 CEQA and NEPA documents, as well
as numerous local agency planning and permitting documents. In
addition to his consulting practice, Mr. Grassetti is an adjunct
professor at California State University, East Bay, where he teaches
courses on environmental impact assessment and urban planning. |
Grassetti finds
that
the DEIR is a nearly unreadable and often incomprehensible mélange
of data and information that has been neither synthesized nor
arranged in such a way as to provide an analytical trail from the
project description to impacts to mitigation. As such, it fails to
achieve the CEQA mandates of clear impartial analysis and full
disclosure to the public and decision-makers. In addition, the
deficiencies in project/alternatives description, baseline, impacts
assessment, and factual errors/contradictions result in a document
that fails entirely to fulfill its required purpose of identifying
potentially significant environmental impacts and mitigating them. |
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Pat Higgins |
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Salmon And Steelhead Recovery
Coalition |
California Council Trout Unlimited,
California Trout, Inc., Coast Action Group, Environmental Protection
Information Center, Northcoast Environmental Center, Pacific Coast
Federation of Fishermen's Associations,
Salmonid Restoration Federation, Smith River Alliance |
The coalition
finds that the aquatic protection measures
in the Jackson management plan as described in the
Draft Environmental Impact Report are
insufficient to provide adequate protection for listed salmonid
species based on their own knowledge and the sworn declaration of
California National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) representative,
the late Joe Blum, about the insufficiency of the California Forest
Practice Rules. They propose use of the NMFS Guidelines or the
federal Forest Ecosystem Management Assessment Team (FEMAT)
standards instead. |
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Jim
Strittholt, Ph.D. |
Executive Director of the Conservation
Biology Institute. Dr. Strittholt holds a Masters
in population genetics and a Ph.D. in landscape ecology and
conservation planning. He has authored numerous reports and peer
reviewed papers on various topics including forest conservation
planning using GIS, late seral forest mapping, and forest
fragmentation. |
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Vince Taylor,
Ph.D.
Related Paper |
Founder and Executive Director of the
Campaign to Restore Jackson State Redwood Forest. He holds a BS in
physics from the California Institute of Technology and a Ph.D. in
Economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He
consulted on policy economics for 20 years. He founded and led a
successful computer software development company. For the last 10
years he has worked to have Jackson Forest managed for restoration,
research, and recreation. |
Taylor finds serious deficiencies and
errors in the forest inventory and growth estimates used in the
draft management plan and relied upon by the EIR. Using his own
recent analysis of Jackson inventory data, he shows conclusively that
the estimates are greatly in error -- perhaps by 40-50%. The errors
are so great that the harvest levels proposed in the management plan
would exceed forest growth. Harvest in excess of growth violates the
law. The management plan is, therefore, legally invalid. |
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Government Agencies |
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California
Department of Fish and Game |
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California
Regional Water Quality Board |
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