Current Campaign

The current RFD campaign is actively defending an area located at the southern end of Yurok ancestral territory overlooking the Pacific coast. This redwood rainforest is home to the Tsurai people of the Yurok Tribe who have lived on this land for time immemorial. The forest currently being defended is located a few miles north of their original village location, also known as Trinidad. This second and third growth redwood coastal rainforest is located in proximity to Strawberry Rock, a massive on-shore sea stack that rises above the surrounding redwoods. The Yurok have stewarded this land for countless generations and continue to reclaim their ancestral tribal territory after almost 250 years of disruption by European settlers.

This forest has been exploited for just as long and Green Diamond Resource Company (Green Diamond) continues to clearcut the forest, decimating canopy connectivity and ruining habitat for at-risk species. Green Diamond and industrial logging contributes to deforestation which is a major driver of climate change. The urgency of climate crisis demands that we stop business as usual and we need to totally rethink our reliance on timber/forest products. Read more below about our goals and demands, news from the resistance, and information about the ecology and history of the land.

Goals & Demands

Green Diamond Resource Company to return all the land currently in their holdings back to local Tribes and to fully fund the restoration of these areas
A complete moratorium on industrial logging
Green Diamond to withdraw Timber Harvest Plan (THP) 1-18-00157-HUM
Permanent protections for all pricklecone pine stands on Green Diamond land
Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) and Sustainable Forestry Initiative (SFI) to remove certification from all Green Diamond products
Humboldt County to ban clearcut and other forestry practices that strip canopy connectivity and fragment wildlife habitat
Green Diamond workers to be able to stay at home and be paid in full during the COVID-19 pandemic