Strategic Town Hall Meeting Saturday
Guest Post by Jack Nounnan
Humboldt Sentinel
Be at the . . .
Trinidad Town Hall Meeting
Saturday, March 9, 1 – 4 p.m.
Main Street, Trinidad, Ca.
Save Strawberry Rock and its surrounding Redwoods.
Help us turn this into a local community forest.
Exposing Green Diamond
We’ve been building a formidable public outcry in demanding Green Diamond eliminate their forest practices which for generations have been plundering the mountain forests just beyond our backdoors in Trinidad, Westhaven, McKinleyville, Fieldbrook, Kneeland, Blue Lake, and Elk River.
The practices of clear-cutting and dwarfed trees, lost habitats polluted or damaged watersheds, and loss of untold numbers of creatures defies any good sense of stewardship. No ownership implies or landlord has the right to devastate hundreds of thousands of acres.
To hear them at their recent Bayside meeting was to be assured of all they are doing to benefit nature, its plant life, its creatures and their habitat.
Nonsense!
Take a hike into any of their areas and see for yourself. See if that’s not outright exploitation run amuck.
And what of the entire world’s critical need of our forest oxygen resource to offset global warming? We’re part of a global village, all connected, all dependent upon one another.
How has this clear cutting, the exposure of these vast and bare areas continued for so long, as if unnoticed under their almost self-regulating “out of sight, out of mind” operating procedures?
It’s time for real changes in how we perceive our whole environment, our shared environment where we must live and thrive; or if negligent, paying the consequences of these companies practices. We want legitimate appraisals of our precious environment– and the putting aside of generous shares of their immense perpetuity holdings in perpetuity for becoming real forests again.
Why have they not considered this? Why must we be put in a position of demanding real care and considerations? We depend upon logic, not one that is fatally flawed, but real logic with a premise of true value.
We’re all for good businesses, but their entire land mass of a giant plantation to harvest for their own profits should never have begun!
How can we all bring greater public notice to their practices?
Please help to spread the word by forwarding this to those immediately affected by their clear cutting and plunder of our homeland forested mountains, and by attending the meeting tomorrow at the Trinidad Town Hall at 1 p.m.
For more information:
Friends Of Trinidad Forests
Forest Defenders
Trinidad Tree Sit
Contact person: Abe Brower 707-845-1643
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The Sentinel’s previous article on Strawberry Rock is here.
(Posted by Skippy Massey)
