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Public Records Act Requests
History of CalFire and SPI disparagement and injustice towards women, environmentalists here
Law
2022: Opening brief for Rio Gatito Logging Plan Appeal Case
Legal brief regarding a timber harvest plan (THP)
Some CA Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) Guidelines here
Some Public Resource Codes here
Climate & Ecology
Approaching a state shift in Earth's biosphere Click
Forest sector carbon management, measurement and verification, and discussion of policy related to climate change Click
Large-scale bioenergy from additional harvest of forest biomass is neither sustainable nor greenhouse gas neutral Click
Fire
Vapor Pressure Deficit due to climate change main cause for increased fire danger here
Fire severity increased by post-logging tree plantations Click
Area burned in the western United States is unaffected by recent mountain pine beetle outbreaks Click
Do mountain beetle outbreaks increase the risk of high-severity wildfire? Click
Exploiting the fear of fire for economic gain Click
Fire facts vs. Fantasies Click
Hydrologist Review of SPI's Post-fire Sediment Study Click
The Myth of Catastrophic Wildfire Click
Why Calls for "Forest Thinning" are Timber Industry Snake Oil Click
Battle Creek specific documents
2023: List of Battle Creek research with excerpts here These references are routinely ignored by public agencies during decision-making
2023: Night and Day: The difference between industrial logging and public land here
2022 Battle Creek Alliance presentation to State Water Board
2022 State Water Board Adds 44 miles of Battle Creek segments to its Clean Water Act 303 (d) Impaired Waters List (See Appendix J, lines 249 and 288)
2022 Bald eaglet nest deaths Formal Complaint to Cal Fire
2021 Anthony Grassroots prize
2021 Shasta Environmental Alliance award to our director
2021 Battle Creek Air and Water Temperature Increases here
2021 Our comment on Powerhouse logging plan (resubmitted version of 2017 "Artemis" plan detailed below)
2020 Lawsuit filed against approval of Rio Gatito plan
2020 Rio Gatito logging plan comment
2018 Our Water Quality Research Paper here
2017 Defiance Canyon Raptor Rescue rescues shot eagle here
2016 Logging for Water by Will Parrish article
2016 Battle Creek Alliance named "Environmental Hero" here
2014 Hydrologist's Analysis of our Water Quality Data here
2012 Hydrologist's Analysis of our Water Quality Data here
2011 Hydrologist's Analysis of our Water Quality Data here
2016 Review of SPI post-fire sediment document here
2013 Review of SPI post-fire sediment document here
2015 US Fish & Wildlife letter regarding sediment increase here
2016 Water temperature analysis (draft) here
2017 Water temperature analysis (final) here
2010 Clearcutting map of Battle Creek watershed here
2009 Kier & Assoc. Aquatic Habitat Conditions in Battle Creek and Their Relationship to Upland Management here
2008 Biologist's review of SPI Plant Diversity study here
Artemis Timber Harvest Plan
This plan was ultimately withdrawn in 2018, but was re-submitted under a different name, "Powerhouse", in 2020
2018: Hydrologist's Expert Opinion letter to Cal Fire here
2018: Despite over 60,000 acres of clearcutting and salvage logging, another timber harvest plan has been filed for this decimated area. Our January 2018 comments to Cal Fire regarding the Artemis THP are here
Our further comments on the Artemis THP, August 2018 here
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