War on Nature in the News
Latest news:
Sacramento levees fail federal maintenance standards
Sacramento Bee - August 24, 2012
Suit against Corps tree policy to go forward
Sacramento Bee – April 28, 2012
Editorial: An Army Corps of contradictions
Sacramento Bee, April 17, 2012
Even as it clings to a policy requiring state and local agencies to clear trees from levees, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has granted one of its own districts a variance to plant 30,000 trees along the levee-lined Sacramento River.
Despite policy, Army Corps to plant 30,000 trees on Sacramento River levees
Sacramento Bee , April 14, 2012
Editorial: Corps should revise its policy on levee trees
Sacremento Bee, August 31, 2011
When it comes to trees and levees, the...Corps...needs to revise its one-chainsaw-fits-all policy.
Trees strengthen levees in some case, study finds
Sacramento Bee, August 27, 2011
...a new study by the Army Corps itself has found that trees actually strengthen levees in some situtaions.
Past stories and more...
- Corps Orders Trees Cut Down - June 2009 [pdf]
- Army Corps Levee Tree Rules Rattle Sacramento Flood Agencies - June 2009 [pdf]
- Federal Government may require trees stripped from California levees - May 2010 [pdf]
- Let our trees be - May 2010 [pdf]
- Clock is ticking on CVFPP - May 2010 [pdf]
- Army Corps Rulings Spares Trees on Natomas Levees - June 2010 [pdf]
- Partial Reprieve for Greenery - June 2010 [pdf]
- Sacramento-area levees technically fail Corps of Engineers inspections - Sept 2010 [pdf]
- Clear Cut Dangers for East bay levees - Oct 2010 [pdf]
- Officials refuse to clear levees of foliage - Oct 2010 [pdf]
- Editorial: Corps must rethink policy on levee trees - Dec 2010 [pdf]
- Court battle expected over Central Valley levee vegetation - April 2011 [pdf]
Friends of the River in Action
- Court Order for the War on Nature Case to Proceed: April 27, 2012 [pdf] NEW
- 60 Day Notice of FOR's Intent to Sue to save trees [pdf]
- Senior policy advocate Ron Stork persuades Army Corps to extend comment deadline [pdf]
- Friends of the River officially joins fight against Army Corps' War on Nature [pdf]
- Representitive Matsui Letter to Friends of the River [pdf]
Our Allies in Action Against War on Nature
- CA Dept. of Water Resources & CA Dept. of Fish & Game File Comments [pdf]
- State of Washington writes Assistant Secretary of Army of Civil Works [pdf]
- Cal Resources Agency letter to Assistant Secretary of Army of Civil Works [pdf]
- Congressional Letter to Assistant Secretary of Army of Civil Works [pdf]
