To: The United States Senate
The world is too big to fail. Save our redwoods.
Opportunists have been burning and clear-cutting the unique and irreplaceable redwood trees for two centuries. We desperately need them for a healthy ecosystem and ozone. Place a moratorium on cutting down all redwoods, private or otherwise. Stop the vineyards from polluting and clear-cutting in the name of wine industry. They can grow grapes anywhere. Where else in the world do redwoods grow? Answer? Nowhere!
Why is this important?
Dangerous precedents are being set. Trucks are hauling redwoods out on an hourly basis, day and night in California. Wineries are intruding where we need erosion control. They are in direct conflict with the health of the Gualala River with their toxic runoff, as well as other watersheds north of the bay area. Redwoods are an endemic species, that is, found growing no where else naturally but California. If the redwoods interfere with vineyards, vineyards can go somewhere else, anywhere nearly, and grow grapes. California is a great asset to the states, and to the world at large.