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Descriptive Summary
Title: Klamath Forest Alliance Collection
Dates: 1970-2010
Collection Number: 2014.01
Creator/Collector:
Felice Pace
Klamath Forest Alliance
Extent: 93 Cubic Feet: 87 Record Storage Boxes, 1 Oversize Box, 6 Photo "Shoeboxes"
Repository:
Humboldt State University Library
Arcata, California 95521-8299
Abstract: The collection was created by the Klamath Forest Alliance (KFA) and Felice Pace (Mr.). Between the late 1980s and 2010, KFA,
with Felice as its leader, played major roles in the "timber wars" in northwest California and southwest Oregon, including
timber sale appeals and litigation to defend roadless areas, the Northern Spotted owl controversy, and efforts to protect
Ancient Forests through federal legislation. KFA championed conservation biology approaches to protecting biological diversity
and the protection of biological corridors linking protected areas, including via development of the Klamath Corridors Proposal
and through national forest plans.
KFA also worked to protect and restore Pacific Salmon species, to promote watershed restoration and the restoration economy
as an alternative to timber dependence, and to persuade the Forest Service to decommission logging roads that posed watershed
risks. Volunteer watershed advocacy in the Salmon and Scott River Basin and participation in the federal Klamath River Basin
Restoration Program by KFA co-founders Felice Pace and Petey Brucker grew into KFA's River Program.
The collection includes Felice's prior work with California Indigenous American tribes and NGOs, Siskiyou County, the Marble
Mountain Audubon Society and the Siskiyou Regional Education Project that promoted bioregionalism and published Siskiyou Country
Magazine in the 1980s. It includes press clip series on national forest and Klamath River issues and information on operations
of the anti-environmental Wise Use Movement in Northern California and Southern Oregon.
Language of Material: English
Access
Open for research by appointment
Publication Rights
Klamath Forest Alliance and Humboldt State University hold joint copyright to the materials of this collection that are authored
by Felice Pace or the Klamath Forest Alliance until 2025, at which point Humboldt State University will gain full copyright
to those materials. To obtain permission to publish or reproduce in any format please contact the Special Collections Librarian.
Preferred Citation
Klamath Forest Alliance Collection. Humboldt State University Library
Acquisition Information
The collection was donated to the HSU Library in 2014 by Felice Pace and the Klamath Forest Alliance. It was processed prior
to being received by the Library.
Biography/Administrative History
See the websites for Klamath Forest Alliance and Felice Pace for current information. See the Biographical/Historical Essay
by Felice Pace for historical context for the collection.
Scope and Content of Collection
The KFA archive includes several types of documents:
Correspondence among activists, between organizations and with federal and state officials. This correspondence will be useful
to those who want to understand the development and operation of the grassroots movements to end aerial herbicide spraying,
curtail clearcutting, end the logging of old forests (Ancient Forests or Old Growth), stop road building, encourage the decommissioning
of logging (dirt and gravel) roads, end the degradation of aquatic habitat and Pacific Salmon resulting from road building
and clearcutting in riparian areas and on steep, unstable slopes. These files also track development of the movement to restore
Pacific Salmon, including attempts to get federal funds allocated for salmon restoration and development of the restoration
economy. These documents can provide insight into relations among organizations within the environmental/public land protection
movement including the sometimes testy relationship between grassroots organizations and national/regional environmental organizations.
In particular, insights into how the Ancient Forest Protection Campaign and California Ancient Forest Alliance were organized
and maintained can be obtained via the correspondence, drafts of Ancient Forest legislation, etc.
Plans and planning documents related to national forest and river/aquatic/salmon management and monitoring. These include
early state wild & scenic river plans, salmon and watershed restoration plans, forest land and resource plans and forest restoration
plans. Often early salmon restoration and river/stream protection plans can be compared with later plans to get an idea of
the development of the Restoration Economy, how water quality and other conditions (fisheries) have changed over time and
(especially) how the goals and objectives of state and federal agencies for fisheries, aquatic and terrestrial habitat and
protection have changed over time.
Timber sale, timber sale administrative appeal and timber sale litigation documents. These documents can provide insight into
the types of logging being opposed by grassroots activists and environmental organizations and the issues being raised concerning
logging and road building on national forests in general and Northwest California in particular.
Efforts to list the Northern Spotted Owl (NSO) under provisions of the Endangered Species Act, the resistance of National
Audubon and other national groups to the listing and relations between the NSO lawyers and grassroots clients. There is also
information in the archive, including maps, about the effort by National Audubon and grassroots groups to map Old Growth forests
on national forests within the range of the Northern Spotted Owl. KFA activists (mainly Petey Brucker and Felice Pace) produced
over 90 USGS quad map overlays showing the location of Old Growth, clearcuts and younger forests on the Klamath National Forest
(KNF). From these maps Felice and Petey constructed a composite map of Old Growth and clearcuts on the KNF. Felice took that
map to DC. The Forest Service had refused to tell Congress where Old Growth was located; this was the first Old Growth map
taken to Congress. Jim Lyons, later President Clinton's Assistant Secretary of Agriculture in change of the Forest Service
was then a Congressional staffer. He was the first official to see the Old Growth map.
The decision and efforts to open a second front in the movement to expand the Ancient Forest Protection Campaign from a focus
on NSO habitat (terrestrial habitat protection) to include Pacific Salmon (aquatic habitat protection).
Maps and educational posters related to forests, wildlife, aquatic resources and water quality. This includes maps from the
Forest Service and other government agencies, maps generated by Marble Mountain Audubon Society identifying Old Growth forests
on the Klamath National Forest and maps generated by KFA, including the Klamath Corridors Proposal to link existing wilderness
areas with biological corridors and a Regional Trail Plan produced by Felice Pace. There are also maps presenting remote sensing
data and allied scientists' reserve designs for the region. Educational posters deal with the status of and threats to salmon
stocks, rare plants and wildlife habitat. There are also flip chart sheets with notes from meetings and strategy sessions
held by environmental organizations on Sierra Pacific Industries and Coho Salmon.
Photographs and slides used in public education and to document forest and watershed conditions on the Klamath National Forest
and in Klamath River Basin rivers and streams. These include images of clearcuts, road failures, natural fire areas and the
impacts of fire suppression on national forest watersheds. Images of agricultural activities, including irrigation, from within
the Scott, Shasta and Upper Klamath Basins and the impact of agriculture on stream conditions and water quality are also included.
There are slide shows and individual slides that are organized topically, e.g. clearcuts, road problems, fire, salvage logging,
etc.
Felice's work prior to the founding of KFA. This includes materials which can provide insight into the back-to-the-land movement
of the 1970s, early development of the progressive left and the forest protection movement in Northwest California and Southwest
Oregon, development and growth of tribal governments throughout Northern California and especially development of Karuk, Pit
River and Quartz Valley tribal governments. Materials in this part of the collection also provide insights into the issues
faced by youth and the war on drugs in Northwest California in the 1980s when Felice coordinated Alcohol and Drug Prevention
and Education services for Siskiyou County. These include material on Outdoor Adventure, an Outward Bound type program Felice
founded and directed that took troubled teens on wilderness adventures designed to build self esteem.The specific programs
and organizations to which these materials relate include Siskiyou Citizens for Building Reform, the Siskiyou Regional Education
Project, and Marble Mountain Audubon (MMA), a chapter of the National Audubon Society which Felice and others founded in 1980.
The Siskiyou Regional Education Project (SREP) published Siskiyou Country, a bioregional journal for which Felice wrote in
the mid to late 1980s and organized several bioregional conferences. Native American tribal materials come from work Felice
did directly for tribes and native NGOs and work he did as an associate of Peters and Associates, a Native American-owned
firm which had funding from the Bureau of Indian Affairs in the 1980s to provide technical assistance and development services
to federal tribes throughout California.
Indexing Terms
Environmentalism--California, Northern
Old Growth forests
Pacific Salmon
Klamath River (Or. and Calif.)
Anti-environmentalism
Wise Use Movement
Logging
Klamath National Forest (Calif. and Or.)
Herbicides--Environmental aspects
Bioregionalism
Watershed Restoration
Fisheries--California
Forest Roads
Landslides
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