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Since Ihe corporate takeover, MAXXAM has logged off more than half of the 

 virgin forest that was part of PL's forest holdings. To protect the remaining 

 ancient groves and the species dependent on them, EPIC was forced to sue 

 Maxxam/PL, and state and federal agencies eight times, since 1987. EPIC 

 cited the defendants' failure to consider the cumulative effects of logging on 

 the ancient forest dependent wildlife species. 



Under the California Forest Practices Act (FPA) the industry has the right to 

 appeal an agency decision, but the public citizen has only one recourse, to 

 bring suit on behalf of the public interest Otizens are forced to file suit on a 

 piecemeal basis, one logging plan at a time. This constraint reveals that 

 California's logging plan review process is inadequate to assess the negatives 

 effects of industrial logging on fish and wildlife. 



For many years Pacific Lumber refused to conduct requested wildlife surveys 

 to determine critical habitat needs. Department of Fish & Game (DFG) 

 biologists requested this information in order to design mitigation measures 

 required by law and by DFG's own code of regulation. The DFG mitigations 

 were unique because they were based on the cumulative effects of logging 

 ancient forests and the ecological processes of the ecosystem. 



EPIC asked the agencies and the court to require a full environmental 

 analysis of MAXXAM's planned logging of ancient forest areas. An analysis 

 equivalent to an Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) would have 

 necessitated the development of mitigation measures to protect wildlife 

 before destructive logging practices impacted habitat. 



EPICs court injunctions and stays have successfully delayed the destruction 

 of 1500 acres of the last few remaining unprotected groves of ancient forests. 

 These legal avenues yield temporary success, yet as we have awaited final 

 judgment in these cases with critical biological questions left unanswered, 

 MAXXAM has dearcut virgin forest and thousands of acres of residual 

 groves without adequate analysis and review of the impact of logging on 

 wildlife, fisheries, water quality, soils and the long-term health of the forest. 



MAXXAM has continually showed bad faith by failing to abide by state and 

 federal regulations designed to protect species and habitat MA)OCAM has 

 lobbied heavily against any meaningful reforms in the state legislature. 

 Board of Forestry and in the courts. 



Under MAXXAM's control Pacific Lumber has acted unscrupulously. 

 MAXXAM has aggressively worked to fragment and isolate the ancient 

 groves in an attempt to reduce their value as habitat for wildlife, so that 

 further logging would not be prohibited by the, agencies. When it became 

 obvious that the EPIC lawsuits and agency scrutiny created a de facto 

 injunction on the most significant groves, MAXXAM switched to a new 



