EARTH FIRST! ACTION CAMP ANNOUNCEMENT

Hole in the Headwaters Logging spawns Earth First! Action Camp

Camp will be at Grizzly Creek State Park, Nov. 3rd-17th

For immediate release Thursday, November 1st, 2001

Contact: NCEF! P.O. Box 28, Arcata, CA 95518, (707) 825-6598 or page

(707)269-9731

The Humboldt Forest Defenders, including North Coast Earth First!, will

be hosting an action camp, in Humboldt County, California, beginning on

November 3rd. MAXXAM/Pacific Lumber has already begun loggin the Hole

in the Headwaters, 705 acres of 2nd growth and residual old growth

redwoods actually within the boundary of the Headwaters Reserve. Loggers

have boasted that they'll be done in 30 days. The camp will offer

trainings, such as non-violence, backwoods, jail solidarity, and

tree-climbing, as well as food, fire, songs, and an Old Growth Redwood atmosphere.




The camp will be held at Grizzly Creek State Park, around seventeen

miles up Highway 36, which runs east off of Highway 101, just south of

Fortuna. Once you get onto Hwy 36, follow it past Carlotta, Swimmer's

Delight Campground, and the Grizzly Creek State Park signs. Within a

mile, you will see the Grizzly Creek Campgrounds sign on your left, and you

will turn to the right, and park; the camp will be to your right. If

you are coming from the East, on Hwy 36, then the sign will be on your

right, and you will turn to your left, and the camp will still be to

your right. People are encouraged to bring tents, sleeping bags, warm

clothes, extra food, a few dollars to help pay for the site (optional),

rain gear, and a good spirit (necessary).




MAXXAM and the Corporate industrial forestry Complex continue to ravage

Humboldt County, and must be stopped, before it is too late. Already,

mills are shutting down, due to the liquidation logging that has been

destroying Humboldt County's local economy, while millions of dollars in

timber revenue is being spent thousands of miles from our local

communities. Big Timber is going after the last of the Old Growth,

clearcutting on insanely steep slopes, and threatening to decimate the last

viable Coho Salmon and Steelhead Trout runs on the North Coast. We continue

to suffer the effects of herbicides, diesel fuel, siltation,

landslides, and the loss of a local economy, all for the luxurious lives of a few

greedy people.




Non-violent, civilly disobedient direct action is a long-standing

tradition of dissent, giving the people a voice, and a chance to communicate

with each other about the issues that are important to everyone.

Please come and learn more about the art of resistance, and take part in

this historical movement of good-hearted peace-seeking people, standing up

to corporate greed and inequalities. The Hole in the Headwaters is

being cut, new timber harvest plans are being processed for the Mattole,

and many other plans, all over Humboldt County, are being approved,

everyday. We have the capacity to accommodate over one hundred people, so

come on over to Humboldt County, and take a stand for the trees!

If you have trouble getting an answer from NCEF! at 707/825-6598, you

can also page Shunka at (707)269-9731, for more information. This is a

numerical pager number, so enter your phone number at the beep, and

you'll be called back promptly. Hope to see you soon!