For Immediate Release January 27, 2011
Mass RALLY at CalTrans: NO Road Widening Through Richardson Grove!
Contact: Richardson Grove Action Now (707) 602-7551, rgroveactionnow@gmail.com
Richardson Grove Action Now announces and invites all to a mass RALLY at CalTrans in Eureka.
NO ROAD WIDENING THROUGH RICHARDSON GROVE!
Protect the forest and our future. Resist Invasion.
Rally on Monday, Feb 7th at NOON
at
CalTrans District 1 Headquarters
1656 Union St. (Union and Wabash)
Eureka
Bring anything you want to express yourself!
For info or to get more involved contact Richardson Grove Action Now, call
(707) 602-7551 or email rgroveactionnow@gmail.com.
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Update: A Critical ride to Save Richardson Grove just added to Monday's events!
If you're in Southern Humboldt, go to the Garberville Town Square at noon to commemorate the political legacy of Bob Marley on his birthday with a celebratory and craft-making event in preparation for Monday's mass rally at Cal Trans District 1 Headquarters in Eureka. Come organize rideshares and rally spectacles!
Sunday February 6th, Bob Marley Birthday Celebration and Preparation for Rally at CalTrans Headquarters.
Monday February 7th, mass Rally to protest the road widening plan through Richardson Grove. Noon at CalTrans District 1 Headquarters at Union and Wabash
in Eureka.
Does the timing of this event have anything to do with bird nesting season? If Caltrans is planning to go forward with the RIP this summer they would need to remove trees before Feb 15.
ReplyDeleteperfect time to clear the trees, when all the hippies are off duty at the arcata plaza next monday lol
ReplyDeleteThe rally will take place on Monday at Noon in Eureka, not Arcata:
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1656 Union St. (Union and Wabash)
Eureka
However, there will be a bike ride from the Arcata Plaza to the rally leaving from the Plaza at 9:30am to rendezvous en masse at Caltrans Eureka noon.
Posts will be removed that contain misinformation about the rally and/or especially pornography. I already removed your porn post Anonymous 7:17. The ability to anonymously post has just been turned off.
Thanks for playing...
"Does the timing of this event have anything to do with bird nesting season? If Caltrans is planning to go forward with the RIP this summer they would need to remove trees before Feb 15"
ReplyDeleteDespite the fact that Marbled Murrelets are nesting in RGSP doesn't mean that Caltrans recognizes the fact that construction noise levels will disturb nesting Murrelets. This can be found in the Caltrans FEIR:
http://www.dot.ca.gov/dist1/d1projects/richardson_grove/
Murrelets are in Richardson Grove, the State Park even advertises this fact with a photo of a Murrelet in the official RGSP brochure printed in 2009. I tried to find a link to a photo of this, but you can always pick up a brochure yourself.
Basically, Caltrans acknowledges the existence of Federally endangered Murrelets in RGSP. And Spotted Owls. And a long list of other endangered and threatened plant and animal species. The FEIR allows them to "mitigate" impacts to these species, which is a complete load of crap.
Here is an excerpt from my public comment on the DEIR regarding this issue:
"I am well aware of the nesting season forestry guidelines for the Marbled Murrelet, one of many endangered species present in Richardson Grove. In fact, the Marbled Murrelet's presence on local timberlands prohibits most major road construction and timber extraction activities during said nesting season. Yet the Richardson Grove project proposes high decibel noise disturbances from equipment such as excavators, jackhammers, concrete saws, augers, ground compactors, and other various noise making equipment during nesting season. The noise from this equipment, as stated above in paragraph five and six, creates foreign and threatening sounds to creatures nesting in the grove, and cannot be compared to "ambient" traffic noise. Moreover, the EIR states that temporary noise, night work, and activity is likely to disturb nesting Murrelets. Yet, somehow the additional construction noise will not impact breeding birds in the project area. Which one of these conflicting statements is factual?"
From:http://saverichardsongrove.blogspot.com/2009/02/my-public-comment-for-caltrans.html
In closing, Caltrans claims through "mitigation" that endangered species will not affected by the RIP(Richardson Grove "Improvement" Project), regardless of season.
There is no Marbled Murrelet nesting season with this project...
i don't think so there was any need to relate the timing of this event with bird nesting season.. Anyways it is informatine blog..
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