-- Campaign For Old Growth | Davis's Promise --

Dear Governor Davis:

Enclosed are copies of articles which appeared in both the Santa Rosa Press Democrat as well as the Eureka Times Standard on March 15, 1998, when you were campaigning for your current position.

When do you plan to implement this ban on the cutting of all old-growth trees?

What can the environmental community do to help you to insure that this ban is put into place before any more of these priceless, irreplaceable trees are cut?

The Headwaters Deal only saved a small fraction of the remaining 3% of our coastal redwoods. It does not ban the cutting of old-growth. I would like to remind you that there are still people living in old-growth trees here in Humboldt County to keep them from being cut. Julia Butterfly has been living near Stafford above the site of the landslide that destroyed 7 homes for over 18 months now. Nate Madsen has been living in a tree since October, 1998 in Freshwater to keep one of the last old-growth trees in that area from being cut. These amazing, courageous individuals should not have to live in these trees to keep them standing. If your campaign promises were kept, they could descend from their lofty perches, knowing that the trees they have made their homes would still be standing.

Please, I urge you to do everything in your power to end the cutting of all old-growth trees, as you pledged in your campaign speech.

Thank you.

Sincerely,

Susan Moloney

cc: Mary Nichols