Forest Action Team

Beth Delson, Chuck Peterson, David Smernoff, Susan Stansbury, and others actively campaigned for forest protections, tabled and gathered signatures, and conducted citizen science to collect data in endangered marbled murrelet habitat.

BAA supported and promoted the Forests Forever California state-wide initiative in 1990 (which sadly failed).

BAA presented the Festival for the Forests at Fort Mason, San Francisco, in 1991.

Regionally, logging threatened marbled murrelet habitat on private property in the Santa Cruz Mountains and logging threatened Butano Ridge.

The Forest Action Team went dormant around 1993, as its leaders moved on to other things. However, forest issues remained important to BAA members, and through the mid-1990s articles in the BAA newsletter regularly updated people on Headwaters Forest controversies, challenges to the Endangered Species Act, and other forest-related issues in Northern Calfornia. In 1995 Mark Bult started the Headwaters Forest Project, effectively taking up the FAT baton and focusing on the Humboldt County issue as it heated up.

The theme for Bay Area Earth Day 1997 was Forests for the Future.

Friends & partners

Some of the organizations BAA partnered with and shared info and action alerts with:

• Bay Area Coalition for Headwaters, Berkeley, CA
• Forest Education Project, Oakland, CA
• North Coast Earth First!, Humboldy County, CA
• Rainforest Action Network, San Francisco, CA
• Santa Cruz Earth First!, Santa Cruz County, CA
• Sempervirens Fund, Los Altos, CA
• Siskiyou Action Project, Cave Junction, OR
• Western Ancient Forests Campaign, Washington, DC