Mendocino Poison Company
Information on Mendocino Redwood Company’s widespread use of toxins in Mendocino County…
Website with updated information (2015) on the fire danger from poisoned trees left standing in the woods:
An online petition:
Letters we’ve sent to our local newspaper:
- Poisoning Us for Profit (June, 2012)
- Big Neighbor, Bad Habit (July, 2012)
- Toxic Load on the Albion (August, 2012)
- Insane Corporate Plunder (September, 2012)
- BTU-tiful (March, 2013)
Photos taken near Comptche, California, August 2012:
- Welcome ; Hack ; Panoramas [left] – [center] – [right] ; Come Again
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Newspaper articles on the topic:
- Hack & Squirt, Part 1
- Hack & Squirt, Part 2
- Greenwashing Forest Destruction by FSC
- The Plight Of The Beautiful Tree
- MRC and the Supervisors Exchange Gifts
- 21st Century Timber Wars
- MRC — Same Old Same Old
- The Lumber Man In Charge of Climate Policy
- Greenpeace’s MRC Greenwash
Current and previous actions against these poisonings:
- Proposed Ordinance Prohibiting Dead Standing Trees (2015)
- Turtle Creek vs MRC (2011)
- Westport Municipal Advisory Council (2011)
- Albion River Watershed Protection Association (2004)
- Mendocino County Supervisors’ Resolution (1994)
Some pertinent data from MRC:
- MRC Herbicide Use (see Table 5)
- Map of MRC Land Holdings
More information:
- Imazapyr Factsheet by Caroline Cox
- Mendocino Redwood Company’s Forestry Pesticide Use by Britt Bailey
- Killing the Forest for the Trees by Elaine Kalantarian
- Health Risks High in Rural Areas by Pesticide Action Network
- Certified Destruction of California’s Ancient Redwood Forests FSC Watch
- Pesticide Use in Mendocino County’s Timber and Winegrape Industry by Britt Bailey
August 10th, 2012 at 5:08 am
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December 5th, 2012 at 4:33 pm
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December 7th, 2012 at 7:22 am
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December 14th, 2012 at 12:15 pm
It is an old story to me. The unfinished part is how and why the atrocities continue. Where is the mandate to stop the viciousness? How many years of redundant research is necessary? Why is the mind not connected to the hand? We are drowning in the right information. There is no force in these insights. Each one says, see how intelligent I am to ferret out more and more data. Actually there are many declaimers of The Silent Spring now. And now declaimers shouting the French GMO-fed rat study was shoddy. Amazing that so much information hasn’t an iota of an effect on our petitioned rulers. Why? Why is all this knowledge impotent knowledge? Because we are really cowards in the face of the fascists no matter how much we know of the ways they are murdering us. And we are filled with prejudice against those we need to work together with. Sibling rivalries are the rage among lefties and single issues distort the big picture. Nauseating political correctness imposes its censorships and human history supplies no parallels by which to understand the obvious. Rural areas are for resource extraction as the mighty machine of capitalism eats us alive.
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