Q-zone and old-growth protection

EPIC's director endorsed the Q-zone fixes and countywide ordinance, and urged an emergency moratorium plus county-specific forest practice rules through the Board of Forestry.

Urged the Board to fix the Lower Redway Q-zone first before expanding countywide, keep good records of the ordinance history, and prohibit commercial logging in the R-1 Q zone.

A Lower Redway resident asked for a broad committee including residents, arborists, tribes, and agencies to get the ordinance right, and warned against delaying or weakening the Q-zone.

Spoke to the cultural importance of Lower Redway's forest and called on CalFire and the Board of Forestry to act.

Underscored Sue Maloney's points, asked for more community involvement and time, and said the tree loss was a failure of enforcement, not the ordinance.