Tape 19: With Trisha Hamel, Freshwater Watershed

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    Contributor

    Julia Butterfly Hill

    Geraldine Goldberg

    Episode Description

    G: Well today, I am very excited I have two guests joining me both by phone. Julia Butterfly is in that redwood tree, 197 days, hi Julia.

    J: Hello Geraldine.

    G: And today, we are also joined by Trisha Hamel who is a Freshwater, watershed homeowner. Hi Trisha,

    T: Hi Geraldine.

    G: Trisha, maybe you could tell us what is really going on in your watershed. And let’s see if, let’s take it from there. What is happening out in Freshwater?

    T: Well, I have lived in Freshwater about eight years and probably about six years ago, we started, Freshwater creek started flooding in such a way, that I could not get into my home if I was out, or out of my home if I was on the inside to go to work. So, there were days I literally wasn’t going to work. And so I started trying to find out more about what was going on, and it turned out that this looks like it is really not just a fluke. Um, the thing that is concerning me, is as I learn more about the MAXXAM approach to doing business in Humboldt county, and the effect on me as a California taxpayer and homeowner, I am very alarmed. I have also discovered, that I am actually pro timber industry, which surprised me. What brought me to that was the understanding that my watershed had been logged for something like 150 years. And it had been logged in such a way, that the cumulative impact of that was fairly transparent on that area. But, it appears to me, that now that, that area is owned by a Texas corporation, that has to fund an enormous debt because of other bad business practices, they have been involved in. Now what I think we are seeing, with the destruction of that watershed that I am in, is a very rapid liquidation of assets, to fund a huge corporate debt, outside of the state of California. The other part that I am getting a sense about as I sit in groups of residence and listen to agency people, who are responsible for shepherding this area, and taking care of it, is it sounds to me, and you have to understand, I am fairly uneducated about this, this is new to me. It sounds to me is that there are more than enough regulations, but there is an impotency on the part of the people whose job it is to regulate and impose sanctions and follow though on the sanctions, to be able to do anything about this huge force that has come into our area.

    Broadcast Date

    6-25-1998

    Filename

    19980625

    Language

    English

    Digital Format

    MP3

    File Size

    11.6 MB

    Duration

    14:26

    Collection

    KHSU

    Additional Files
    Tape19_19980625.pdf (1613 kB)

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