Save The Wynoochee Remnant!

Stop Green Diamond Resource Company

Over the weekend of August 30, 2020 grassroots activists discovered that Green Diamond Timber Company has plans to clear cut an old forest containing old-growth characteristics and trees over 500 years old near Wynoochee Lake on the Olympic Peninsula. On their ground-truthing expedition to the forest, activists found massive Douglas Fir trees and Western Red Cedar within an active Timber Harvest Plan (THP). The area we have dubbed ‘The Wynoochee Remnant’ is habitat to the endangered Northern Spotted Owl and Marbled Murrelet.

The Wynoochee Remnant totals approximately 50 acres and is comprised of a 20-acre old-growth cedar/hemlock forest located next to a high conservation value wetland, as well as several dozen outlying giant Douglas Fir trees and old-growth snags. Despite their past commitments to preserve high-value wildlife trees such as those found within the Wynoochee Remnant and the potential illegality of logging of Murrelet habitat, Green Diamond plans to clear cut the old-growth forest.

On June 15, 2021, we sent Green Diamond an offer to buy the core 31 acres of the forest for $40,000. We demand that as good corporate citizens, they accept this offer and sell us the grove so that it can be permanently protected.

Green Diamond owns hundreds of thousands of acres on the Olympic Peninsula and does not need to log in such biodiverse areas as the Wynoochee Remnant. It's time they prove themselves a good corporate citizen and protect the area for good. Until they agree to meet our demands, activists and allies are called upon to pressure Green Diamond Resource Company to halt the clear-cutting planned for the area.

Please call Patti Case (Green Diamond’s spokesperson) at 360-790-6182 and tell the company that they need to be a good corporate citizen and sell the 31 acre Wynoochee Remnant so it can be permanently protected!

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