Local artist James Maxwell is the current featured artist at the Cobalt Gallery in Fort Bragg this month. Gallery owner Button Quinn occasionally creates a venue for long-time artists on the coast to spotlight the older generation of artists, some whose history dates back to the early years of the Mendocino Art Center enclave.
Local artist James Maxwell is the current featured artist at the Cobalt Gallery in Fort Bragg this month. Gallery owner Button Quinn occasionally creates a venue for long-time artists on the coast to spotlight the older generation of artists, some whose history dates back to the early years of the Mendocino Art Center enclave.
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JACKSON STATE FOREST â Early Monday morning a group of about 50 protesters gathered on a logging road that leads into Jackson Demonstration State Forest near Caspar, planning to barricading the road in the hopes of keeping loggers acting on a Cal Fire timber harvest plan from entering the forest and potentially closing the road themselves. This pre-dawn protest joins the already active tree-sit happening in Jackson, as the latest move against Cal Fireâs timber harvests in the forest, which is owned and operated by the department.
The action is a significant escalation in the struggle over the future of large tracts of redwood ecosystem within the demonstration forest. Protesters say that they are as of now primarily asking for a return to the active discussions, and a pause to the loggin â though due to the decentralized nature of the protests no single set of demands has been proffered and at least some groups are calling for the entire western portion of the Jackson