Who gets the most environmental money in Mendocino County? State Parks? The Sierra Club? No way. The Campbell Timber Company is our pick for the greatest taker of environmental funds in Mendocino County. The global logging firm also richly enjoys its position at the front of the trough of local public grant and land...
The Center for Biological Diversity (CBD) is challenging Martin Schepergerdes’ proposal to take water from Bear Creek, bottle it and sell it to wholesale distributors. 7.3 acre feet or 2,378,715 gallons of water would be extracted annually. “We plan to be selling potable spring water, wholesale,” Schepergerdes’ application to the Division of Water Rights,...
Direct Action Blockade Planned at McCloud River June 30th-July 4th. H’up Chonas, the War Dance is an act of preparation for a coming struggle, according to Gary Hayward Slaughter Malcahy, a war dancer with the Winnemem Wintu tribe. “In a war dance you’re asking the spirits for strength, power in order to withstand...
Dead standing wood and small second growth trees have no value to the timber industry, but to local craftsman John Cunnan, they’re a hidden treasure. “I think it’s one of the county’s greatest, under utilized, under appreciated and under valued resources,” says Cunnan one Sunday morning, at the River Oak Charter School, where he’s...
Podcast: Play in new window | Download | Embed A new documentary chronicling the attempted assassination of local Earth First! organizers Judi Bari and Darryl Cherney premiers in Mendocino County April 4th and 5th at the Noyo Theater, in Willits. Directed by car-bomb victim Darryl Cherney, who was initially an FBI suspect, the film...
