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From: "Jonathan Parfrey" <psrsm@igc.apc.org>
Subject:       Action Alert: California Redwood Habitat

               **********URGENT ACTION ALERT**********
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              *****  Protect the Marbled Murrelet  *****
              ****  and Ancient Redwood Ecosystem  ****
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For the ancient Coast Redwood forests of California, the
Marbled Murrelet (a robin-sized sea bird who nests on large
on large horizontal mossy conifer branches under ancient
Redwood canopy in California) is an indicator species
warning of the collapse of the biological functioning of the
Redwood ecosystem due to massive clear-cutting of ancient
Redwoods, its numbers in California have plummeted from
60,000 to 6000 birds.

Submitting a comment letter to U.S. Fish and Wildlife
Service could help to protect its nesting habitat on
federal/state/private land, especially Pacific Lumber land
in Humboldt County which tripled its logging rate after a
hostile takeover by the Maxxam Corporation in order to pay
off its junk bond debts.

Letters are needed in Portland by October 10, 1995!!

Please send to:     State Supervisor
                    U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
                    Oregon State Office
                    2600 SE 98th Avenue, Suite 100
                    Portland OR 97266
                    503.231.6179/voice
                    503.231.6195/fax


**POINTS TO RAISE**

Urge that the following areas be included in the U.S. Fish
and Wildlife Services's Critical Habitat designation for the
Marbled Murrelet.

1.   the following lands of Pacific Lumber Company:
     a.   the Larabee Valley stands, draining the South Fork
          of the Eel River near Pepperwood.
     b.   the virgin and residual old-growth areas of the
          Mt. Bemis properties adjacent to Grizzly Creek
          Redwoods State Park; these lands are desperately
          in need of protection to prevent severe
          deterioration of this Van Duzen River watershed.
     c.   the upper reaches of the main stem of Freshwater
          Creek, a tributary of Humboldt Bay.
     d.   the residual old-growth areas of North Folk Eel
          River, a tributary of Humboldt Bay.

**** About 40.500 acres of the greater Headwaters Forest was
     included in the revised critical habitat designation.
     The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is trying to exclude
     private land from designation, it will be extremely
     difficult to make the case that this prime Murrelet
     nesting area in souther/central Humboldt County not
     receive critical habitat designation. ****

2.   the Murrelet-occupied Cheatham Grove and the adjacent
     Van Duzen Redwoods County Park in the Van Duzen River
     watershed; Cheatham Grove is administered by Grizzly
     Creek Redwoods State Park.

3.   lands which are designated as "occupied" by the Arcata
     Redwood Company's proposed Murrelet Conservation Plan,
     in southern Del Norte and northern Humboldt counties.

4.   Redwood National Park. The best Murrelet nesting area
     on federal in California, to protect key Murrelet
     habitat from being sold off under HR260 and/or other
     misguided legislation.

5.   old growth on federal land within 50 miles of the coast
     which are not already included within Late-Successional
     Reserves under President Clinton's Option #9 (and thus
     were not designated, including areas north and south of
     the Hoopa Indian Reservation.)

6.   Gray Whale Ranch and much of U.C. Santa Cruz/State
     Lands Commission properties which provide an important
     landscape linkage between the designated Wilder Ranch
     State Park and the designated Henry Cowell Redwoods
     State Park in southwestern Santa Cruz County.

7.   Marine habitat for the Marbled Murrelet should also be
     protected as the sea provides its food source and is
     habitat for much of the Murrelet's life.


Thank you for writing this important letter. Please blind
copy your letters to:

Jonathan Parfrey, Executive Director
Los Angeles Physicians for Social Responsibility
1316 Third Street Promenade, Suite B-1
Santa Monica, CA 90401
310-458-2694/voice * 310-458-7925/fax
psrsm@psr.org