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REVISED: POST THIS ONE . . .Scott here it is theIMPORTANT POST to hot rad tops just added and the CAPFIRES: PLAN to BURN UP NORTHERN CALIFORNIA . . .Disclosing the Documentation and the Perpetrators MendocinoCounty Supervisors Reject Timber Resolution and BIG BUCKSdiscovered behind the PLOT 'cap and trade' or the voluntarycarbon offsets market . . .

From: Deborah (deboraht@sonic.net)Sent: Sat 5/02/15 6:28 PMTo: ARC Copy (digigod@arccopy.com)

FIRES: PLAN to BURN UP NORTHERN CALIFORNIA . . .Disclosing the Documentation and the Perpetrators MendocinoCounty Supervisors Reject Timber Resolution and BIG BUCKSdiscovered behind the PLOT . . . 'cap and trade' carbon offsetsmarket . . .

Is this a PLAN to BURN UPNORTHERN CALIFORNIA? . ..Mendocino County supervisorsreject timber resolution | The PressDemocrat . .

AFTER a Request from concernedresidents and the fire agencies . .Fire Danger Presented by DeadStanding Timber on Forest Landsand to Request CommercialTimber Companies VoluntarilyCease the Practice of LeavingDead Standing Trees . . Nothingcame of the request back in 1994and the board will resumediscussion at a LATER date . . . OHREALLY - It's now 2015 . . .

Comment: With the fire officialsbeing ignored and the countyofficials bowing to environmentalheavy weights Northern Californiamaybe set to BURN!

The environmental agenda to"protect" the forests seems totrump concerns of potentialeffected community residents andfire officials about the real dangersthey face with unregulated timberpractices. . We know this is yetanother method to remove peoplefrom the rural areas - burn'em out!

With the illusion of scarce watersupplies we are likely to witnessthe inability for fire-crews to accessneeded water for the anticipatedupcoming fire season in 2015. Never mind the slashing into thebark of the tan oak trees andsquirting the gashes with poison tokill the trees and then leaving thetrees to die while the toxicherbicides degrade into the soil. Never mind the crazy plans thatmake NO sense at all while fireofficials and residents plead withcounty officials to STOP the treepoisoning of about one milliontrees per year, and leaving thetrees to deteriorate over manyyears. This unregulated practice isadding to increased combustiblesof the dying trees - to create theperfect fire storms with plausibledeniability. When we look into theMendocino Redwood Company,who is poisoning the trees andleaving them to rot, we find that theFisher Family of San Francisco,who started the GAP Stores, isbehind this scheme. The Fisherfamily is the majority stakeholders

of the Mendocino andHumboldt Redwoodcompanies, which own about222,000 acres of forest inMendocino County, 7,000acres in Sonoma County andmore than 209,000 acres inHumboldt County.

Both companies were created— the first in 1998, the secondin 2008 — to purchase andmanage timberland that hadbeen heavily cut under

previous ownerships. TheFisher family, founders of theGap clothing stores, aremajority stakeholders in thecompanies.

The company has used 4,920gallons of herbicide to treattrees and brush scatteredacross 24,242 acres sinceMarch 2012, according to thecounty AgriculturalCommissioner’s Office, whichregisters herbicide use. Thenumber of trees poisoned isnot tracked but Williams hasestimated it at about 1 milliona year, based on the amountof herbicides used. TheFisher Family along withHewlett contribute millionsand millions annually toclimate change policies thatare based uponFRAUDULENT science that iscreating new markets to fleecethe global populations. . Nowthe Fisher Family isresponsible for poisoning amillion plus oak trees inNorthern California despitethe pleas of the fire protectionservices and residents livingin the area . . .

What we are engaged in isAttrition Warfare asdescribed in the NASA WarPlan on page 110 onwww.StopTheCrime.net NOTE: Attrition Warfare is aScientific Warfare whichseeks victory through thecumulative destruction of the

enemy's material assets bysuperior technologies andcorporate policies, which inthis instance of killing treesand allowing them to decayare climate andenvironmental polices basedupon falsified corruptcorporate science. AttritionWarfare is a continuation ofcreeping environmentalpolitics with the admixture ofother means. Those othermeans include bribery,corruption, assassination,fermenting rebellions, hostagetaking and the use of inventedscience accompanied byforcing policies based on thegoal of covertly "taking" ruralproperties that are deemed asunsustainable and sprawl . . .

Below you will find all thesource documentation thatconfirms this looming firetragedy. . Please read thevery end of this informationwhich will show the types ofherbicides used andcomments from the peoplethat attended the MendocinoBoard of Supervisors meetingand noted the people wereNOT being listened to. . .

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Mendocino County supervisorsreject timber resolution | The Press

Democrat . . .http://www.pressdemocrat.com/news/3829896181/mendocinocountysupervisorsrejecttimber?page=2

The controversy overpoisoning trees oncommercial timberland hasspiked in recent months, butit’s not new.

At the urging of constituentsin 1994, county supervisorsadopted a resolution thatcontended that leaving deadtrees standing in forests was afire danger and asked theBoard of Forestry to put a haltto the practice, recalledSupervisor Dan Hamburg,who proposed the morerecent resolution.

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Fire officials decry timbermanagement procedure asunsafe- poison by hack and squirtmethod to slow kill the oak trees,and those poisoning the trees arenamed . .

http://www.pressdemocrat.com/news/3779680-181/fire-officials-decry-timber-management

Excerpt:

The hack and squirt method,slices on the tree then injectedwith poison, creates a face in anarea adjacent to residential privateproperty near Comptche FridayApril 17, 2015, oak trees werepoisoned on Mendocino Redwood

Company owned land, to help thereestablish of redwood trees.Residents say the canopy is nothealing and that the slash left bythe downed trees creates a severefire threat. (Kent Porter / PressDemocrat) 2015

Killing the tanoaks and otherbrush gives the commerciallyvaluable conifers — redwoodsand Douglas fir — a chance tocompete for light and water,said Jani, who heads both theMendocino and HumboldtRedwood companies, whichown about 222,000 acres offorest in Mendocino County,7,000 acres in SonomaCounty and more than209,000 acres in HumboldtCounty.

Both companies were created— the first in 1998, the secondin 2008 — to purchase andmanage timberland that hadbeen heavily cut underprevious ownerships. TheFisher family, founders of theGap clothing stores, aremajority stakeholders in thecompanies.

The company has used 4,920gallons of herbicide to treattrees and brush scatteredacross 24,242 acres sinceMarch 2012, according to thecounty AgriculturalCommissioner’s Office, whichregisters herbicide use. Thenumber of trees poisoned isnot tracked but Fire ChiefWilliams has estimated it atabout 1 million a year, based

on the amount of herbicidesused.

The debate heated up furtherthis year after Williams andhis board began raisingconcerns about the firedanger in driedout forests.

# # # (Cal Fire is passive) CalFire too has expressedconcern over volatile forestconditions. In anticipation ofa severe fire season, the stateagency has increased itsstaffing and is warningresidents to clear debris fromaround their homes,something Williams findsironic in light of what he seesas Cal Fire’s passive reactionto the added fuel load fromchemically killed trees.

Williams’ board would like thedead trees removed but hasbeen told it’s too expensiveand that it’s better for theenvironment to leave decayedmaterial on the ground.

Williams suggests that"Mendocino RedwoodCompany" could save moneyby removing the trees at thesame time they’re harvestingconifers for commercial uses.

He said he will be happy iffuture studies show thepractice does not increaseforest fire hazards, but hisexperience as a firefighter andother studies tell himotherwise.

The Mendocino County Boardof Supervisors is expected totake up the issue at 1:30 p.m.Tuesday.

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Who Poisons the Tan Oaks: Mendocino Redwood Company (MRC): Same Old Same Old | Anderson ValleyAdvertiser - Who Poisons the Oaks?

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And there were scattered complaints when MRC sprayed the garlonlike herbicide, imazapr, onjunk trees, a hardlabor practice carried out, predictably, by immigrant Mexican crews notresident in Mendocino County. Of course poisoning unwanted swathes of forest is faster andcheaper than having crews cut the unmarketable trees down and remove them. But thechemical practice imperils water supplies, nearby streams, the workers applying it, and createsa fire hazard with acres of poisoned, dead trees waiting to fall in already droughtdry forests.

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Fisher Philanthropy: The ThreeGap Heirs Are Giving Away aFortune - Inside Philanthropy:Fundraising Intelligence - InsidePhilanthropy . . .

http://www.insidephilanthropy.com/home/2014/9/17/fisher-philanthropy-the-three-gap-heirs-are-giving-away-a-fo.htmlEXCERPT:

He and wife RandiFisher cofounded thePisces Foundation, afunder giving about $8.5million annually toenvironmental causes.Fisher’s and Pisces’ mainissue is water resources,and during his run onthe board he cofounded

the NRDC’s nationalwater program. He alsocofounded the CaliforniaWater Foundation,which works tostrengthen the state’sresources. Pisces alsogives through two otherprograms, Climate &Energy, andEnvironmentalEducation.

Related: PiscesFoundation: Grants forMarine & Rivers

FISHER Family is the Pisces Foundation: Grantsfor Climate & Energy - Fundraising for ClimateChange | Grants - Inside Philanthropy . . .

http://www.insidephilanthropy.com/fundraisingforclimatechange/piscesfoundationgrantsforclimateenergy.html

The Climate & Energy program’sstated strategy is to go after oneparticular category of emissions,socalled “shortlived climatepollutants,” comprising blackcarbon, methane, HFCs, andgroundlevel ozone. These are theelements that stay in theatmosphere for a relatively shortamount of time, but are the worstcontributors to "humancaused"global warming after CO2. Theyalso have harmful effects on humanhealth and agriculture.

Each program has a few largegrantees, and for the climateprogram, the main group is theEnergy Foundation, which receives$500,000 to $750,000 in annualfunding. This is one of the largestprogrammatic and philanthropicpresences working in climatechange today, spearheaded by theHewlett Foundation and backed bythe largest climate funders in thecountry. The organization acts as aconduit for hundreds of grants inthis arena, and works on everymajor component of the problem,including buildings, power,transportation, and publicoutreach.

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The following is copied from the MendocinoCounty Board of Supervisors MeetingAgenda held 4/21/15

CARRE BROWN 1st District Supervisor Chair

CARMEL J. ANGELO Chief Executive Officer/Clerk of the Board

TOM WOODHOUSE 3rd District Supervisor

DAN GJERDE DAN HAMBURG 4th DistrictSupervisor 5th District Supervisor

ViceChair

DOUGLAS L. LOSAK Interim County Counsel

JOHN MCCOWEN 2nd District Supervisor

COUNTY ADMINISTRATION CENTER 501 LowGap Road, Room 1010 Ukiah, CA 95482(707) 4634441Fax (707) 4635649 cob@co.mendocino.ca.us

MENDOCINOCOUNTY BOARDOF SUPERVISORSAGENDAREGULARMEETINGAPRIL 21, 2015 – 9:00 AM

MENDOCINO COUNTYBOARD OF SUPERVISORSBOARD AGENDA #____ ONLINEAGENDA SUMMARY

Arrangements for public hearings and timed

presentations must be made with the Clerk of the Board

in advance of public/media noticing Agenda Summaries

must be submitted no later than noon Monday, 15

days prior to the meeting date (along with electronic

submittals) Send 1 complete original singlesided set

and 1 photocopy set – Items must be signedoff by

appropriate departments and/or Co. Co.

Note: If individual supporting document(s)

exceed 25 pages each, or are not easily

duplicated, please provide 7 hardcopy sets)

Transmittal of electronic Agenda Summaries, records,

and supporting documentation must be emailed to:

bosagenda@co.mendocino.ca.us Electronic Transmission

Checklist: Agenda Summary Records Supp. Doc. If

applicable, list other online information below

Executed records will be returned to the department

within one week. Arrangements for expedited

processing must be made in advance

TO: Board

of Supervisors FROM: SupervisorHamburg

DEPARTMENT RESOURCE/CONTACT: JanelleRauConsent Agenda Regular Agenda NoticedPublic Hearing Time Allocated for Item: 45

min.

PREVIOUS BOARD/BOARDCOMMITTEE ACTIONS: On November5, 2013, the Board approved a contract forthe installation of a Fire Protection System inFort Bragg. On October 22, 2013, the Boardauthorized the issuance of a CoastalDevelopment Permit to the Fort Bragg RuralFire Protection District. On April 10, 2012,the Board approved an agreement will theCalifornia Department of Forestry and FireProtection (CAL FIRE) to provide DispatchServices throughout Mendocino Countythrough June 30, 2015. On January 10, 2006,the Board adopted the Mendocino CountyCommunity Wildfire Protection Plan.

SUMMARY OF REQUEST:Mendocino County has approximately onemillion acres of commercial forest lands.Concerns have been raised regarding thethousands of acres of commercial forestlandsnear the towns of Albion, Little River,Comptche and Navarro that contain largetracts of dead standing trees.

Currently, there are no local regulationsregarding the practice of leaving intentionallykilled hardwoods standing, nor are there anyrequirements that such trees, although dead,be downed and/or removed to reduce firedanger. Such standing dead hardwoodsrepresent significant fire hazard potential,threatening the health and safety of thousandsof residents.

In 2005, the California Department ofForestry and Fire Protection CommunityWildfire Management

Plan designated the affected communities as“Communities at Risk from Wildfire.” ThisPlan collaboratively developed by CalFire,the Mendocino County Fire Safe Council, andMendocino County identified and prioritized

areas for hazardous fuel reduction treatmentsand recommended the types and methods oftreatment that could lessen the risks.

If adopted, the resolution requests that thecommercial timber companies, on a voluntarybasis, immediately cease the practice ofleaving dead standing trees on their property,and proposes an independent analysis of thefire danger resulting from this practice ofcreating standing dead trees, for a period notto exceed six (6) months.

SUPPLEMENTAL INFORMATIONAVAILABLE ONLINE AT:https://www.hightail.com/download/UlRSQndFdGoyW

GV5VmNUQw

http://www.treesearch.fs.fed.us/pubs/38355

http://cemendocino.ucanr.edu/files/17248.pdf

BOARD ACTION (DATE:_____________): Approved Referred to____________________ Other________

RECORDS EXECUTED: Agreement:

__________ Resolution: _________

Ordinance: ________ Other _________ Revised

01/09

DATE: April 14, 2015 MEETING DATE:April 21, 2015

PHONE: 4634441 Present On Call

AGENDA TITLE: Discussion and

Possible Adoption of a ResolutionRegarding Fire Danger Presented byDead Standing Timber on Forest Landsand to Request Commercial TimberCompanies to Voluntarily Cease thePractice of Leaving

Dead Standing Trees

MENDOCINO COUNTYBOARD OF SUPERVISORSBOARD AGENDA #____ ONLINEAGENDA SUMMARY

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ONFILE WITH THE CLERK OF THE BOARD(CHECKED BY COB IF APPLICABLE):

ALTERNATIVES: Do not approvethe resolution and further direct staff.

RECOMMENDEDACTION/MOTION: Adopt Resolutionrequesting commercial timber companies, ona voluntary basis, to cease the practice ofleaving dead standing trees on their propertypending the completion of an independent firedanger analysis, and authorize the Chair tosign the same.

RESOLUTION NO. 15

WHEREAS, Mendocino County is in its

fourth consecutive year of drought; and

WHEREAS, over the past three years (20122014) hardwood trees have been killed andleft standing on over 22,000 acres, at anapproximated rate of over 1.5 million treesper year; and

RESOLUTION OF THE MENDOCINOCOUNTY BOARD OF SUPERVISORSREGARDING FIRE DANGERRESULTING FROM INTENTIONALLYKILLED TIMBER LEFT STANDING ON

FOREST LANDS

WHEREAS, the 2005 Cal Fire CommunityWildfire Prevention Plan, the last such planwritten, designated much of the County as atrisk from wildfire; and

WHEREAS, Mendocino County hasapproximately one million acres ofcommercial forest lands; and

WHEREAS, such standing dead hardwoodspresent fire danger, threatening the healthand safety of county residents; and

WHEREAS, there is no current regulation ofthe practice of leaving intentionallykilled hardwoods standing, nor are there anyrequirements that such trees be downedand/or removed to reduce fire danger; and

WHEREAS, this forest management practicecontinues despite the protests of manyresidents who would be most immediatelyaffected by any resulting wildfire; and

WHEREAS, dead standing trees resulting

from naturally occurring events, and forpreservation of wildlife, shall be exempt fromthis resolution; and

WHEREAS, the Board of Supervisors isextremely concerned about the fire hazardpresented by dead standing timber;

NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVEDthat the Mendocino County Board ofSupervisors

requests that the commercial timbercompanies, on a voluntary basis, immediatelycease the practice of leaving intentionallykilled trees standing on their property pendingthe completion of an independent fire dangeranalysis, or for a period not to exceed six (6)months from the date

of this resolution, whichever comes first.

The foregoing Resolution introduced bySupervisor , seconded by Supervisor , andcarried this day of 2015, by the followingvote:

AYES: NOES: ABSENT :

WHEREUPON, the Chair declared saidResolution adopted and SO ORDERED.

N O T E: THIS RESOLUTION WAS NOT APPROVED . .. .

ATTEST: CARMEL J. ANGELO Clerk ofthe Board

______________________________Deputy

APPROVED AS TO FORM:DOUGLAS L. LOSAK, Interim CountyCounsel

______________________________Deputy

_________________________________CARRE BROWN, ChairMendocino County Board of Supervisors

I hereby certify that according to theprovisions of Government Code Section25103, delivery of this document has beenmade.

BY: CARMEL J. ANGELO Clerk of theBoard

_________________________________Deputy

THE FOLLOWING ARE LETTERS FROM THE FIRE CHIEFS TO THE BOARD OFSUPERVISORS WHICH HAVE BEEN IGNORED . .

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Mendocino County AgriculturalData ForestTimberlandImazapyr Users Past ThreeYears

2014 IMAZAPYR TOTALS: 6838 acres,1022 gallons4752 acres; 758 gallons MendocinoRedwood Company, LLC 923 acres; 114gallons Campbell Timberland

Management

570 acres; 240 acres; 160 acres; 70 acres;47 acres; 40 acres; 36 acres;

25 gallons Blencowe WatershedManagement 51 gallons GualalaRedwoods INC23 gallons Soper Wheeler

15 gallons Powers Forestry23 gallons North Coast ResourceManagement

5 gallons Jackson Demo State ForestCDF 8 gallons Conservation Fund

2013 IMAZAPYR TOTALS: 9101 acres,1560 gallons6676 acres; 1213 gallons MendocinoRedwood Company, LLC 1122 acres; 163gallons Campbell TimberlandManagement

345 acres; 271 acres; 266 acres; 234 acres;90 acres; 35 acres; 27 acres; 25 acres; 10acres;

18 gallons Blencowe WatershedManagement 32 gallons ConservationFund21 gallons Soper Wheeler78 gallons EMCOT Forest LLC

10 gallons Camp Mendocino Boys &Girls 13 gallons Coomb's Tree Farms,INC

4 gallons Gualala Redwoods INC5 gallons Aaron Wells3 gallons Jackson Demo State ForestCDF

2012 IMAZAPYR TOTALS: 6825 acres,

1200 gallons5837 acres; 876 gallons MendocinoRedwood Company, LLC 295 acres; 54gallons Campbell TimberlandManagement 282 acres; 127 gallons Soper Wheeler268 acres; 124 gallons EMCOT ForestLLC73 acres; 10 gallons Conservation Fund70 acres; 5 gallons Congaree RiverLimited

NOTES:

Timber companies tend to use imazapyr forhack & squirt, but they can also use otherherbicides. Therefore, the above totals maynot represent the complete extent of thepractice over the three year period.

For example, in 2014, in addition to theirimazapyr use (seen above),MRC also usedsizable amounts of glyphosate and triclopyr(which are typically used for spraying onbrush, such as manzanita).

1004 acres; 317 gallons triclopyr (akaGarlon) 811 acres; 299 gallons glyphosate (aka RoundUp)

Mendocino County Today: Friday, Apr 24, 2015 | Anderson ValleyAdvertiser

Mendocino County Today: Friday, Apr 24, 2015 | Anderson Valley Advertiser -http://theava.com/archives/42893#1

The following are excerpts from the above link and MOST important to read as you will hearaccount from an attendee of the meeting.

HERBICIDE USE BY THE FOREST/TIMBERLAND INDUSTRY —MENDOCINO COUNTY TOTALS: 20122014

Imazapyr: 4,066 gallons; 24,150 acres [estimated to be over 5 million treeskilled]

Glyphosate [aka Roundup]: 779 gallons; 3,921 acres

Triclopyr [aka Garlon]: 806 gallons; 2,535 acres

Atrazine: 161 gallons; 289 acres [by Soper Wheeler only]

Clopyralid: 42 gallons; 227 acres [by Soper Wheeler only]

Notes: It is assumed that imazapyr is used for frill application (aka “hack &squirt”) on hardwood trees, while the four other herbicides would be used forfoliar (leaf) spraying on brush (such as manzanita) and broadleaf weeds. Various“surfactants” are sometimes added, to make the medicine go down moresmoothly. Mendocino Redwood Company and Soper Wheeler were the only twocompanies to register surfactants, totaling another 600 gallons._________________________________________________________A MEETING ATTENDEE WRITES: I thought your summary of the Supervisors'deadtrees meeting was accurate but for one important and overriding omission:Supervisor Brown should not get a pass on her handling of that meeting, whichwas antagonistic and dismissive toward most of the people who attended. Thisprobably goes back to her history with some of the people who were there, alongwith her position on the issue, but she made the mistake of letting that history biasher handling of the meeting, which put it on a more adversarial footing than washealthy, or even necessary.

The worst part of it all was making everyone wait for so very long before finallyallowing public comment on the main event. The schedule for the whole enchiladawas 1:303, but public comment didn’t end up beginning until after 4. Manypeople who came ended up leaving before they could speak, or even hear whatothers had to say on the subject. Instead of making any attempt to adjust oraccommodate the big turnout of motivated citizens — or even offer a simpleacknowledgement of the inconvenience to all who came and patiently waited —Chairwoman Brown managed the meeting like she really didn’t want to hear fromthe rabble, and she may have been purposely stretching the delay out as long aspossible, hoping to wear the people down and out. It became obvious that themasses, and their voices, were not very welcome in madam's chamber.

At the very end of the meeting, sometime around 7pm, the board finally gotaround to placing their votes. Once Supervisor McCowen made it clear he wasvoting no, essentially killing the resolution, what was left of the crowdgroaned their disapproval. It wasn’t anything untoward or outofline, just tiredpeople audibly venting their frustration with yet one more example ofunresponsive government. I thought it was a restrained reaction, given thesituation. Chairwoman Brown’s response to this was to hiss into her microphone,“Well, now I know how I’m going to vote on this issue.” She spit those words outlike a vindictive grandma withholding love from a wayward child. It was athoroughly unprofessional and petty finish to a very memorable meeting.At thevery end of the meeting, sometime around 7pm, the board finally got around toplacing their votes. Once Supervisor McCowen made it clear he was voting no,essentially killing the resolution, what was left of the crowd groaned theirdisapproval. It wasn’t anything untoward or outofline, just tired people audibly

venting their frustration with yet one more example of unresponsive government.I thought it was a restrained reaction, given the situation. Chairwoman Brown’sresponse to this was to hiss into her microphone, “Well, now I know how I’m goingto vote on this issue.” She spit those words out like a vindictive grandmawithholding love from a wayward child. It was a thoroughly unprofessional andpetty finish to a very memorable meeting.At the very end of the meeting,sometime around 7pm, the board finally got around to placing their votes. OnceSupervisor McCowen made it clear he was voting no, essentially killing theresolution, what was left of the crowd groaned their disapproval. It wasn’tanything untoward or outofline, just tired people audibly venting theirfrustration with yet one more example of unresponsive government. I thought itwas a restrained reaction, given the situation. Chairwoman Brown’s response tothis was to hiss into her microphone, “Well, now I know how I’m going to vote onthis issue.” She spit those words out like a vindictive grandma withholding lovefrom a wayward child. It was a thoroughly unprofessional and petty finish toa very memorable meeting.At the very end of the meeting, sometime around 7pm,the board finally got around to placing their votes. Once Supervisor McCowenmade it clear he was voting no, essentially killing the resolution, what was left ofthe crowd groaned their disapproval. It wasn’t anything untoward or outofline,just tired people audibly venting their frustration with yet one more example ofunresponsive government. I thought it was a restrained reaction, given thesituation. Chairwoman Brown’s response to this was to hiss into her microphone,“Well, now I know how I’m going to vote on this issue.” She spit those words outlike a vindictive grandma withholding love from a wayward child. It was athoroughly unprofessional and petty finish to a very memorable meeting.At thevery end of the meeting, sometime around 7pm, the board finally got around toplacing their votes. Once Supervisor McCowen made it clear he was voting no,essentially killing the resolution, what was left of the crowd groaned theirdisapproval. It wasn’t anything untoward or outofline, just tired people audiblyventing their frustration with yet one more example of unresponsive government.I thought it was a restrained reaction, given the situation. Chairwoman Brown’sresponse to this was to hiss into her microphone, “Well, now I know how I’m goingto vote on this issue.” She spit those words out like a vindictive grandmawithholding love from a wayward child. It was a thoroughly unprofessional andpetty finish to a very memorable meeting.At the very end of the meeting,sometime around 7pm, the board finally got around to placing their votes. OnceSupervisor McCowen made it clear he was voting no, essentially killing theresolution, what was left of the crowd groaned their disapproval. It wasn’tanything untoward or outofline, just tired people audibly venting theirfrustration with yet one more example of unresponsive government. I thought itwas a restrained reaction, given the situation. Chairwoman Brown’s response tothis was to hiss into her microphone, “Well, now I know how I’m going to vote onthis issue.” She spit those words out like a vindictive grandma withholding lovefrom a wayward child. It was a thoroughly unprofessional and petty finish toa very memorable meeting.

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About The Fisher Family - The Lumber Man in Charge of ClimatePolicy | Anderson Valley Advertiser

The Lumber Man in Charge of Climate Policy | Anderson Valley Advertiser . .

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The Fisher family's fortune originated in real estate. In the Fifties and Sixties,family patriarch Donald Fisher bought and refurbished old hotels throughoutCalifornia. His son John Fisher is currently the majority owner of the FairmontHotels of San Francisco and San Jose, and the family has numerous other realestate holdings. Reflecting the enormous financial success the family has enjoyed,UC Berkeley's real estate institute, the Fisher Center for Real Estate & UrbanEconomics, is endowed in their name.

The Fishers are also extremely influential and politically active, but their ties tothe Brown administration, in particular, are evident in numerous ways. Forexample, Anne Gust Brown, the governor's wife, served as general counsel, chiefadministrative officer, and executive vice president of The Gap during herfourteen years with the retailer. Her boss was Robert Fisher, The Gap's formerpresident and CEO.

One of Governor Brown's main priorities last fall was the passage of Proposition 1,the $7.5 billion state water bond that voters approved in November. According toSecretary of State data, the biggest donor to Yes on Prop 1 was the Jerry Brownfor Governor 2014 campaign, which gave just shy of $5.2 million. Collectively,the Fisher family was the campaign's second biggest pool of financial support.They contributed more than $1.5 million, with Robert Fisher personally chippingin $400,000.

California has arguably taken stronger legislative steps to address climate changethan any state in the union. AB 32 mandates that the state reduce carbon dioxideemissions to 1990 levels by 2020. California is also the first state to inaugurate acapandtrade program, which allows polluters to cancel out their emissions bybuying carbon emission reductions somewhere else on a commodities exchange.A portion of those credits, or offsets, comes from carbon sequestration in forests.

But according to many environmentalists, the capandtrade program is fraughtwith problems, some of the most glaring of which are its provisions concerningforests. For example, cap and trade currently allows timber operators to generatecarbon credits even when they clearcut a forest, so long as the cut is no largerthan forty acres.

Meanwhile, Brown has used revenues from the capandtrade program as a keyfunding source for his favored projects, one of which is the Strategic GrowthCouncil (SGC) — financed by $130 million in annual capandtrade revenue.

Sacramento State University political science instructor Peter Detwiler, whoworked in the first Brown administration's Office of Planning and Budget (underwhich the SGC is now housed), noted in an interview that the SGC is distinct fromwhat he called "picketfence politics" — the tendency for state agencies to bedivided by functions, such that they rarely collaborate with one another to pursuelarger policy objectives.

The SGC, by contrast, coordinates among all the state's major agencies. TheSacramento politics journal Capitol Weekly noted in October 2014 that the "SGCreflects Brown's vision as much as any entity in government."

On the SGC, Robert Fisher sits alongside secretaries from California's primarystate agencies, including the California Business Consumer Services and HousingAgency and the California Environmental Protection Agency. Fisher wasoriginally appointed to the SGC by thenGovernor Arnold Schwarzenegger in2009, but then was reappointed by Brown in 2013. SGC Executive DirectorMichael McCoy, a former UC Davis professor of urban planning who carries outthe daytoday work of the council, said in an interview that Fisher's contributions"have been nothing short of fantastic. He's brought great insight into so manyareas of our work, such as our efforts to promote greater infill development incities. And he brings an outsider's perspective that, frankly, nobody who's beenworking inside of government for a very long time can offer."

In the coming years, carbon sequestration will become a larger focus of Californiaclimate change policy. In 2016, the California Natural Resources Agency is set tounveil its "Forest Carbon Plan," which will set clearer proposals for storing carbonin trees — a plan likely to be profoundly shaped by the timber industry. McCoysaid the SGC will be "coordinating more closely" with state agencies to promotecarbon sequestration by that point.

many environmentalists credit the Fishers' businesses as being moreenvironmentally sensitive than many of their timber industry counterparts, thefamily still profits by cutting down trees on an enormous scale, therebydiminishing the forests' unique carbon storage capabilities. Given that the Fishers'North Coast properties probably have as much carbon sequestration potential asany forest of equivalent size on the planet, the family is a potential lightning rod inthe growing climate change movement.

Robert Fisher

That's especially true given the fact that the eldest Fisher brother, Robert, alsoserves as cochair of a littleknown cabinetlevel body in Sacramento called theCalifornia Strategic Growth Council (SGC). Enacted by the state legislature in2008, the SGC is a cornerstone of Governor Jerry Brown's efforts to curbgreenhouse gas emissions. The panel has the broad and unprecedented mandateof coordinating implementation of California's climate change prescriptionsacross all levels of state government, while also preparing the state toaccommodate a projected population of 50 million by the year 2050.

As such, Robert Fisher, whose close relationship with Brown is wellknown withinthe corridors of the state Capitol, is not only in charge of helping set Californiaclimate change policy, but he also profits handsomely from harvesting livingspecies that are increasingly being recognized as one of our last best hopes forforestalling the catastrophic impacts of global warming.

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Coastal Redwood Forests: Carbon Offsets or Climate Mitigationby Tomas DiFiore Wednesday Apr 15th, 2015 2:06 PM

Private corporate industrial commercial timberlands in Mendocino County do not have thestanding timber volume inventory to merit carbon sequestration offsets accreditation.Mendocino Redwood Company should not be paid a green certified cent by large scaleindustrial polluters to ship the remaining redwood forests to expanding markets overseas forcarbon offsets. The forest carbon offset marketplace is consumerproduct oriented. Theshortrotation carbondecay curve diminishes the intrinsic value of forest ecosystemfunctions, and reduces actual sequestration within the forest ecosystems by exporting thefuture health of the forest as softwood cambium carbon pools, in repeated perturbations aspeak carbon flux events.

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Point of clarification: 'return on investment' is not meant to denote a return on any forest investment,Beyond the purchase, forests are considered the cheapest carbon sequestration project investment withthe highest yield. In the case of commercial timberland, the 'return on investment' is considered to be thereturn on investment funds (sourced) from the forest, and invested elsewhere, offsite, and may have

nothing to do with forests or carbon sequestration. The investment can be used to seek a return on thepurchase of a company or shares in a company in an unrelated industrial sector, or to build a storefrontdistribution center.

Forests Are Considered The Cheapest Carbon Sequestration Project Investment

“In regulatory programs, a capandtrade system sets a state, regional or national cap, or limit, on howmany GHG emissions are permitted from regulated entities. Capped entities can meet their complianceobligation through emission allowances, auction or allocated to them by a governmental agency, orpurchasing offsets from uncapped sectors. Forestry is considered an uncapped sector in compliancemarkets and IFM offsets can be created at lower costs compared to offsets from other sectors.” http://www.uvm.edu/rsenr/wkeeton/pubpdfs/Kerchner%20and%20Keeton_2015_Forest%20Policy%20and%20Economics.pdf

New markets increase purchases of products supporting the flow offsite of carbon from short rotationtree farms, buoying the decay quantifier to balance the carbon equation.

For nature's sake, commercial products are a form of forest carbon that should not be calculated into'standing, live tree carbon' assessments (under CCAR, CORE, REDD) for the sake of 'cap and trade' or thevoluntary carbon offsets market.

Forest products are the commercial form of accrued carbon as the portion that is extracted bylandowners. Benefits will come in time with less environmental damage per entry, higher value stumpage,and higher quality in products. Forest health should be a nonpayable dividend, and not receivable ascurrency, with no exchange rate marketable as carbon offsets for pollution mitigation. Current certificationsystems, use carbon models that substantiate an increased flow of forest products to expanded marketsbased on manipulated landscape data fostering a carbon shortrotation treefarm baseline.

Carbon Quality (CQ) also known as the heartwood to softwood ratio, is not used in commercial forestproducts carbon accounting, as the price of timber products must remain low enough to foster the flow ofcarbon exchange Farmed Carbon at the Carbon Exchange!

Completely Arbitrary Methodology: Asymptotic Carbon Storage or Forest Health

Redwood decks, fencing, and furniture will not improve forest habitat for streams and rivers, the salmon,the flora and fauna, fog drip, nor groundwater and subbasin aquifer recharge.

“However, the time taken to reach asymptotic carbon storage, while decreasing as the normal rotationperiod decreases, increases almost linearly with the average extended decay time of timber products.Because the asymptotic level of carbon storage in timber products is additional, the effect of convertingproduction of a given forest to longerlived products is to accumulate carbon at the same mean rate overa longer period of time than the harvest cycle.

By contrast, the effect of enhancing the growth rate of trees (conifer release, stocking) for a particularcalculated parameter of products is to accumulate more carbon over a shorter period of time.”

But this is not “Additionality” under carbon law! CCAR v3.2 (CORE) (IFM)

Most commercial timberland “models of carbon storage do not incorporate the retention of carbon indetritus and soil organic matter. This contribution represents the largest pool of carbon in mosttemperate forest stands (Schlesinger 1977, Gholz and Fisher 1982, Cooper 1983) so that it is importantto quantify the effects of harvesting on the storage of carbon in soils.” (from) Tree Physiology 6,4174280 1990 Heron PublishingVictoria, Canada A Model Of Carbon Storage In Forests And Forest Products; Roderick C. Dewar; Institute of Terrestrial Ecology, Bush Estate, Penicuik, Midlothian EH26 OQB, Scotland Received January 3, 1990

I feel personally, that one must go back in time, to baselines from when there were studies in Old Growthforests for answers to the Redwood Region's role in climate mitigation. Carbon accounting methods andalgorithms have only adjusted the carbon storage asymptote formulated on short rotation productivity tocontinue the business as usual approach to expanding markets.

I think it can be said that Mendocino Redwood Company has no heart(wood).

CONCLUSION THE OUTCOME OF THE FIRE CONCERNSFROM THE FIRE CHIEFS AND RESIDENTS REMAINUNADDRESSED SO NORTHERN CALIFORNIA IS SET TOBURN BASED UPON THE FISHER FAMILY GREED,CORRUPT LEGISLATION, AND ENVIRONMENTALISMTHAT DEFINES ATTRITION WARFARE . .