Archives: Era of the End of Old Growth "I always figured if somebody told me you can't live in the past, they was trying to get me to forget something, that if I remembered, would get them in serious trouble".  Utah Phillips The whole NORTHWEST IN THE 1970's 1980's and the 1990's endured what were known as the Timber Wars. It was the 3rd such time in the history of Northern California Woods Workers and Mill Workers. The first time was in 1898 when a year after the Stanford Act had passed and the timber companies still refused to pay in real MONEY that the workers in the woods and the mills walked out. The 2nd time was in the 1930's when workers shut down the railways from San Francisco to Oregon stopping the shipments of lumber. During the 1980's groups like ALE, Alliance of Loggers and Environmentalists, sought to gain better forestry practices moving toward sustainability and long term employment. LP was planning to scrape the forest floor and glue it back together as OSB. GP in the town of Fort Bragg, facing the concern of the public and Supervisors promised that they were here for the long haul. Going on to state that in the year 1988  the county produced 500mmbft per year... and that this production level could continue well beyond the year 2000. By  1994  the yearly production was 224mmbft, 40% of which was coming from JDSF. By  2006  county production levels dropped to less than 110mmbft. The Forest Is All Edge The following links represent historic times, telling, as a disciplined view submitted into the records of public comment in reponse to THP's - SYP's and State and National Forest Management Plans in Sonoma - Mendocino - Humbolt - and Trinity Counties, Region One, Coastal Redwood Forest Type and Mixed Conifer: 1988 to 1998 The Importance of  Old Growth  In Our Ecosystems 104kb PDF Wildlife Quantifiers  Habitat Requirements 90kb Powerpoint Slideshow Wildlife and habitat computational errors in the use of  QMD  in pre and post-harvest stand descriptions. 26kb PDF CMAI  is the point (decade) at which harvest of a stand of trees leads to maximum theoretical timber and biomass production, maximum employment opportunity, and reasonably good resource protection. 95kb Powerpoint Slideshow Quadratic Mean Diameter although not explicitly stated in the  WHR  habitat classification guide (Mayer and Laudenslayer 1988), is calculated using the diameters of all woody stems greater than five inches. 50kb PDF The  density of the functional characteristics  should be adequate to demonstrate that the processes producing them is a common feature of the stand. The traits of these functional characteristics should reflect the dominant trees of the stand. 90kb Powerpoint Slideshow The inclusion of  hardwoods  in the original distribution of tree species in the climax forests of the redwood region was determined by many factors. 20kb PDF In 1998 there was a tax deduction for logging  Old Growth in California.  90kb Powerpoint Slideshow FRIF CFIP  Public Trust  Turned To Corporate Profit 85kb PDF Outside of resource extraction; a 'Zero Sum Game' by all accounts, and development projects, no other California State commercial venture permit or license is free. Thus had the term  Corporate Welfare Forest Practices  been engendered. 55kb PDF