CA Forestry Chief Symbolically Pied at Meeting
12/3/98
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Title: CA Forestry Chief Symbolically Pied at Meeting
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Date: 12/3/98
Fort Bragg, CA - The Redwood Forest Cell of the Biotic Baking Brigade
(BBB)gave Director of the California Department of Forestry (CDF) Richard
Wilson a special treat at a Citizens' Advisory Committee for Jackson State
Forest meeting tonight. An actor impersonating Wilson entered the meeting
in order to receive several chocolate mud and banana cr,me pies in the
face.
After working long and hard over a period of eighteen months developing a
plan to protect Jackson State Forest from over-logging, the citizen
committee's plan was given an icy reception by Director Wilson. The
liquidation of Jackson State Forest to support the Timber Industry is just
one of many reasons why Wilson was targetted by "Operation Another One
Bites the Crust."
"For years the people of this great region have done everything they could
to protect the Redwood Forest. We have attended countless meetings, read
and commented on numerous Timber Harvest Plans, Sustained Yield Plans, and
Habitat Conservation Plans, sued the State and the Timber Corporations,
organized and attended public protests and non-violent direct actions in
the woods. Yet we have not be able to stop the violence that has been done
to the Redwood Forest ecosystems. The Coho salmon is near extinction; so
are the Spotted Owl, Marbled Murrelet and many other species. Timber
workers are now an endangered species. Our waterways have been polluted by
herbicides, and by mud from timber industry roads. Whole ridgesides have
been denuded. The old growth is nearly all gone, reduced to mere tree
farms. Our fishing industry is gone. The very ability of the Redwood
Forest itself to survive is in question. Much of this destruction has been
done under the control and supervision of Director Wilson," said Agent
Banana Cr,me of the BBB.
"Wilson kept state foresters, Department of Fish and Game biologists, and
Water Quality Resource employees from doing their jobs. Mr. Wilson's
department has yet to stop, prohibit, moderate, or modify any Timber
Harvest Plan for 'cumulative effects,' as required by law. As a result,
our forest lands and communities have been devastated. The Director has
given the State's approval for clearcutting thousands of acres of Redwood
Forest. He has idly watched as erosion from logging has choked to death
salmon rearing streams. He has allowed virtually all the old growth to be
felled --- all the while protesting vehemently to the US. Fish and
Wildlife Service and the National Marine Fisheries Service that he and the
State have done their job," commented Agent Mudpie.
"The Director has been symbolically pied tonight with chocolate mud and
banana cr,me pies. The chocolate echoes the earth's good brown top soil,
which flows for miles to the sea from the mouths of the Navarro, Big
River, Noyo, Albion, Ten Mile, and all the waterways in Mendocino County
as a result liquidation logging. The banana cr,me symbolizes Wilson's
treatment of these forest land as the Timber Corporations' own Banana
Republic. It is our hope that whenever Mr. Wilson eats pie, he will be
reminded of his dirty fingerprints over the ruin of one of the most
magnificent resources on earth, the REDWOOD FOREST," added Agent Apple.
When Louisiana-Pacific Corp. announced the sale of their lands in
Mendocino County, Wilson stated that "it's sad, but it really should be no
huge surprise. Everybody knew they were cutting themselves out of
business." Well, Mr. Wilson, you were in charge! Here's some delicious
comeuppance for your efforts!
"Operation Another One Bites the Crust" concludes the ninth successful BBB
mission, totaling 12 powerful and unaccountable public figures who have
received the BBB's just desserts. Other recipients include Charles Hurwitz
(CEO, MAXXAM, parent company of Pacific Lumber), Milton Friedman (Nobel
Laureate, neoliberal economist), Robert Shapiro (CEO, Monsanto), Renato
Ruggiero (Director General, World Trade Organization), Gavin Newsom
(Supervisor, San Francisco), Willie Brown (Mayor, San Francisco), Carl
Pope (Executive Director, Sierra Club), David Watson (CEO, Novartis),
Robert Berdahl and Larry Vanderhoef (Chancellors, University of California
at Berkeley and Davis), and Gordon Rausser (Dean, UC--Berkeley).
For Previous BBB communiques and press releases, contact
bbb_apple@hotmail.com
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