Write your legislators to put a permanent end
to logging in Jackson State Forest

Please write to Senator Wesley Chesbro (D-Arcata) and Assemblymember Patty Berg (D-Sebastopol) and ask them to take immediate action to safeguard Jackson State Forest. If you have additional time please send letters to your own state senator and assemblymember asking them to urge Chesbro and Berg to pull out all the stops to protect Jackson. See below for contact information. The following are sample letters. Please copy and paste them into a dated letter, signing your name at the bottom. Feel free to use the letters verbatim; for maximum impact, re-write them using your own words.

Letter to Chesbro/Berg:

Dear Senator Chesbro/Assemblymember Berg,
I am writing to encourage you to take immediate action to stop the logging that recently began in Jackson State Forest.
Jackson is a public forest and should be restored and preserved for future generations of Californians, not logged for millions of dollars in agency revenue.
Please consider the following facts about this precious resource:
o Jackson’s original 1947 mandate by the state legislature was to "demonstrate" the profitability of logging second-growth redwoods. This mandate is now outdated.
o Jackson is considered habitat for many endangered and threatened species, such as marbled murrelet, Northern spotted owl and coho salmon.
o Jackson Forest alone makes up about two-thirds of all of California’s state forest system land.
o The California Department of Forestry in 2002 received and effectively ignored almost 5,000 public comments, all but 49 of which opposed large-scale commercial logging on the forest.The citizens of California have made clear their desire for CDF to end its intensive commercial logging of Jackson. I believe you have the means at your disposal– through contacts with agency and elected officials, the media, etc.—to help stop the logging. Please do whatever you can to make the will of Californians a reality.

Sincerely,

Your name

Letter to your own state senator/assemblymember:

Dear Senator/Assemblymember ___________________________

I am writing to ask you to encourage Senator Wesley Chesbro and Assemblymember Patty Berg to take immediate action to stop the logging that recently began in Jackson State Forest.
Jackson is a public forest and should be restored and preserved for future generations of Californians, not logged for millions of dollars in agency revenue.
In contacting Senator Chesbro and Assemblymember Berg, please consider the following facts about this precious resource:
o Jackson’s original 1947 mandate by the state legislature was to "demonstrate" the profitability of logging second-growth redwoods. This mandate is now outdated.
o Jackson is considered habitat for many endangered and threatened species, such as marbled murrelet, Northern spotted owl and coho salmon.
o Jackson Forest alone makes up about two-thirds of all of California’s state forest system land.
o The California Department of Forestry in 2002 received and effectively ignored almost 5,000 public comments, all but 49 of which opposed large-scale commercial logging on the forest.
The citizens of California have made clear their desire for CDF to end its intensive commercial logging of Jackson. I believe you have the means at your disposal–through contacts with agency and elected officials, the media, etc.– to help stop the logging. Please urge Senator Chesbro and Assemblymember Berg to make the will of Californians a reality.

Sincerely,

Your name

Contact information:

Senator Wesley Chesbro
POB 785
Ukiah, CA 95482
phone (707) 468-8914
fax (707) 468-8931

Assemblymember Patty Berg
104 West Church St.
Ukiah, CA 95482
phone (707) 463-5770
fax (707) 463-5773

If you live outside Chesbro’s and Berg’s district, you can look up your own state legislators’ contact information at www.leginfo.ca.gov. Click on “Your Legislature.”

Thank you for doing your part to help protect one of California’s most valuable ecological resources– Jackson State Forest.