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San Francisco Bay Area: On Earth Day, Save Forest Homes of Animals from Diabolic Deforestation Plan at Tomales Bay State Park

San Francisco Bay Area: On Earth Day, Save Forest Homes of Animals from Diabolic Deforestation Plan at Tomales Bay State Park

Join us and a community of animal defenders and forest protectors in a safe, organized, peaceful action on Earth Day to protest a monstrous, gas-powered, mechanical assault on 2,000 acres of dense, healthy, old-growth forest in Tomales Bay State Park. 

Chainsaws, chippers, masticating machines, and toxic herbicides, will fell hundreds of trees, destroy thousands more plants, and poison soil, all where wild animals have lived peacefully for hundreds of years without human “management.” 

Thousands of innocent animals will be affected, including foxes, raccoons, rabbits, owls, woodrats, woodpeckers, salamanders, bobcats, and more. They will all be driven from their old-growth forest home if this giant, decade-long “chainsaw management” deforestation project begins this autumn.

Participate to save this forest, and forests across California, from the surge in monstrous, make-work forest “management” projects that destroy wild animals’ habitats.

Dozens of similar assaults are justified as reducing wildfire danger or improving forest health. Neither claim is backed by science. Wildfires are overwhelmingly caused by a heating climate and by weather (heat waves and winds). So cutting down trees, called “thinning” by the logging industry, just exacerbates the problem. Logging releases more sequestered carbon than wildfires do, killing trees who efficiently store carbon, produce oxygen, and provide homes for 70% of Earth’s remaining terrestrial wild animals.

“Vegetation management” and “reducing fuel loads” are just the latest public relations schemes of the logging industry to fool the public into accepting the ongoing destruction of forests, and increased herbicides and pesticides use, all for profit. 

In the Tomales Bay State Park forest, “management” is the excuse for “treatments” with chainsaws, masticators, chippers, and herbicides. A multi-million dollar make-work project for two state agencies, Cal Parks and Cal Fire, that want state funds earmarked for wildfire reduction. But cutting down trees doesn’t make houses safer; only “hardening” treatments to houses, not forests, and creating defensible space within 100 feet of houses does that.

What: Earth Day demonstration to stop deforestation and save wild animals’ habitats at Tomales Bay State Park
When: Saturday, April 22 at 10 a.m. PT
Where: Jepson Trail parking lot, Tomales Bay State Park, near Heart’s Desire Beach and Point Reyes National Seashore in Inverness, CA

Find it on Google Maps (GPS coordinates: 38.122339, -122.896864)

Directions: To get to Jepson Trail parking lot: a small, hidden dirt parking lot at the intersection of Pierce Point Rd. and Shallow Beach Rd. (Shallow Beach Rd. is a small, unmarked paved road, without a road sign) bear right off of Pierce Point Rd. at a sharp left turn. It’s 1/8th mile before the entrance and the large wooden sign for “Hearts Desire Beach” and Tomales Bay State Park. (If you see a large wooden sign for “Hearts Desire Beach” you’ve gone 1/8th-mile too far on Pierce Pt. Rd.)

Find more details at TreeSpirit Project

Can’t Make It? 

You can still help by calling, signing, and sharing our alert opposing this massively destructive project. 


In Defense of Animals fully expects and strongly urges all people involved in this campaign to act responsibly and lawfully and to respect the personal interests and privacy rights and concerns of any individuals who may be affected by, or become the subject of, your protests or related efforts.

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