Industrial logging ought to be included in the plan to protect these species. I live in a county surrounded by Redwood Trees. These are NOT protected. They are being clearcut in huge numbers non-stop. The companies Humboldt Redwood Company, Sierra Pacific Industries, and Green Diamond/Simpson Lumber company are filing larger plans in order to cut quicker with less time & money to get pushed through the agencies. Simpson & HRC (GAP, Banana Republic) who recently bought out Pacific Lumber, Hurowitz’s MAXXAM, they have an “Incidental Take Permit” which means they can legally cut in places that were previously illegal to cut in due to Steep & Unstable Slopes, known Endangered Species’ nests & habitats, etc. I am not saying all logging is bad, there is an endless amount of Restoration that needs to happen & there are always trees that can be thinned, just the ruthless practice of ClearCutting has to stop! There is nothing “Sustainable” about Clearcutting, even though these companies sell to places like Home Depot as certified ‘sustainably harvested.’ Our home is becoming a moonscape, where even a few years ago they would go in, take a few trees, mill them locally, & return to the same spot years later. It is turning into Liquidation, & our area knows what that can look like. It looks like liquidation of the hillslopes above our towns & it turns to a mud slide like the one that took out the town of Stafford right below Julia Butterfly’s Redwood tree Luna. Let’s just look at cause & effect while we talk about endangered flora & fauna. There is a significant balance that comes to maintaining diversity & health of our ecosystems. A lot right now has to do with managing our corporations like Columbia Helicopters who are running amuck contracted to log internationally & locally in areas too steep to access without a military Chinook. Jobs are no longer local here, mills are shut down, fallers are from out of state, logs are shipped overseas, and we are left only with some serious cleanup that nobody is able to fund. I believe if local economies were allowed to thrive as small time businesses, utilizing lumber that is hastily thrown aside and burned as slash, much of it is Old Growth hardwoods that someone could make a lifelong living off of employing cabinet makers, etc. Instead they are cut down, burned, hack & squirt with Herbicides. Redwoods are planted where Douglas Firs had grown, Firs are grown in Redwood country. It is the same world wide. To stop poaching we need an ability for local businesses to thrive, as it is in the Gulf of California with the Vaquita Porpoise who is nearly extinct.