Caltrans Four Bridges Project Meeting Thursday, August 23, 2012 at 4:30PM at...
Back in March, 2011 CALTRANS floated this project, called the “Four Bridges Project”. They proposed to replace the railings on four bridges along the Avenue of the Giants. Sounds innocent, right?...
View ArticleWillits ByPass Basics
Caltrans is proposing to spend $200 million to bulldoze a six-mile, four-lane freeway the size of Interstate 5 around the community of Willits, in Mendocino County, California. The project would cause...
View ArticleInjunction Sought to Stop Construction of Controversial Willits Bypass Project
The Center for Biological Diversity, Willits Environmental Center, Redwood Chapter of the Sierra Club and the Environmental Protection Information Center (EPIC) filed a motion in federal court on...
View ArticleCourt Will Not Stop Caltrans from Cutting Trees, Harming Salmon Streams...
SAN FRANCISCO— A federal judge today refused to halt imminent environmental destruction by the California Department of Transportation in preparation for construction of the Willits Bypass, a proposed...
View ArticleBootprint of the Willits ByPass
Greetings … The Willits By-Pass is another of the CALTRANS coordinated attacks on our North Coast environment. CALTRANS is waging a multi-phase campaign starting from the north with the Smith River...
View ArticleWillits Bypass Update: Caltrans Work Set to Start End of January 2013
UPDATE FROM THE BAY AREA COALITION FOR HEADWATERS JAN. 19, 2013...
View ArticleWill Parrish: The Insanity Of The Willits Bypass…
From WILL PARRISH, Ukiah Courtesy of the Anderson Valley Advertiser As with so many places in the American West that have been struck by the flash-flood of capitalist development since the mid-19th...
View ArticleRosamond Crowder’s Speech at the Willits Bypass Protest Demonstration
1/28/13, Willits CA Hello, I’m Rosamond Crowder. I’ve been working with the Willits Environmental Center. Today I’m here as an individual. I did not organize today’s gathering and I want to thank...
View ArticleCaltrans waste and boondoggle at Willits
There are many reasons why the Caltrans bypass around Willits – as designed – is bad news, but here’s the most compelling quick demonstration of why it’s a huge waste of taxpayer money: Check out this...
View ArticleGuns Needed To Build ByPass
You would think I was crazy to write this but it actually happened! Eco-criminals CALTRANS and their armed militia also known as the CHP forcibly removed the Willits tree-sitters Tuesday at gunpoint...
View ArticleRichardson Grove Update-Over 9,000 Took Action-Thank You!
We did it. In only eleven days more than 9,000 people from California, out of the state and even out of the country, spoke up in defense of ancient redwoods of Richardson Grove State Park. This...
View ArticleFederal Court Allows Destructive Willits Bypass Project to Move Forward
SAN FRANCISCO— A federal judge ruled today that the California Department of Transportation’s environmental review and permits for the Willits Bypass were adequate and the agency can continue...
View ArticleInfo On Will Parrish Trial (Jan. 27th), Legal Status, & Crime-Fighting...
Dear friends, I’ve put you on an e-mail list to receive irregular updates about what’s happening with my case whereby the Mendocino County DA is prosecuting me for 17 misdemeanors (max jail sentence:...
View ArticleRichardson Grove Update-State Court Of Appeals Oral Argument
New Year’s Greetings to all and let’s hope for some rain soon in 2014! Sad to say, we suffered a loss in late 2013 of one of our strongest supporters, Loreen Eliason, co-owner of the Riverwood Inn in...
View ArticleWill Parrish Announces Decision in Key Willits Bypass Case
Will Parrish Announces Decision in Key Willits Bypass Case Willits, CA-At a press conference to be held at noon at the Ukiah County Courthouse (100 N. State St.) today, environmental activist, teacher...
View ArticleCaltrans Water-Wasting Highway Project Brings a Crowd to the Water Board
Jan. 30, 2014 For immediate release Contact: Karen Pickett (925) 376-7329 Caltrans Water-Wasting Highway Project Brings a Crowd to the Water Board Santa Rosa, CA—Citizens concerned about California’s...
View ArticleVictory for Richardson Grove
A Victory for Richardson Grove – Appeals Court Rules Caltrans Failed to Consider Highway Project’s Impacts on Old-Growth Redwoods The California Court of Appeal today ordered Caltrans to reevaluate the...
View ArticleRichardson Grove Update-Some Very Good News-Win in Appeals Court
Greetings … and with some very good news for all who have supported the effort to protect the old growth redwoods of Richardson Grove State Park. As you may remember, after the years-long struggle to...
View ArticleCaltrans must evolve with state’s transportation needs
Published 3:15 pm, Sunday, February 2, 2014 by the SF Gate The California Department of Transportation got a major wake-up call this week from an external review of the department’s policies and...
View ArticleDrought & Implications for the Caltrans Willits Freeway Bypass
Dear Governor Brown: You recently declared a drought emergency in the State of California. The week before, the Mendocino County Board of Supervisors and the Willits City Council had both declared a...
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