[Kzyxtalk] Measure "V" for VICTORY

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Congratulations to Els and Allen Cooperrider, Beth Bosk, Will Parrish, Ed Nieves, Dan Hamburg and every other environmentalist who worked so hard to get Measure V passed. And thank you to the voters of Mendocino County who had the good common sense to vote "Yes" on Measure V. 

Thanks also to those who endorsed Measure VV from the very beginning, including: Michael Colton, Firefighter Comptche Volunteer Fire Dept.; Ted R. Williams, Fire Chief Albion Little River Fire Protection District; Katy M. Tahja, Retired Librarian; James Sibbet, Member Comptche Volunteer Fire Dept., Chair. Comptche Community Services Dist.; and Kirk P. Van Patten, Cal Fire Fire Capt. (Ret). 

Thank you, too, to the Mendocino Environmental Center ("The MEC") and KMEC Radio 105.1 FM. 

Going forward, Measure V will do ten (10) things: 
1. Safeguard residents from the dangerous industrial practice of intentionally killing and leaving dead standing trees; 
2. Declare this radical practice of "hack and squirt" a PUBLIC NUISANCE and restores corporate accountability; 
3. Protect emergency escape routes and critical infrastructure; 
4. Put the safety of people ahead of corporate profit; 
5. Protect firefighters, many of them volunteers, from unnecessary manufactured perils; 
6. Demand honest forest management, requiring project clean up by disallowing manmade hazards from littering the landscape; 
7. Shift financial burden from the people to the timberland owner/operator; 
8. Provide an exemption for wildlife habitat; 
9. Mitigate a controllable hazard from compounding with projected and unknown fire impacts of climate change; and 
10. Assert the right of citizens to establish a reasonable standard, where regulators have favored corporate profit over public safety. 

Quoting Measure V literature: " State regulators and elected officials have been slow and lax in responding to the concerns of citizens, choosing to protect the bottom-line interests of the largest corporations. Last fall, Governor Brown declared a state of emergency over what he called California’s “worst epidemic of tree mortality in modern history,” yet the largest timber company in Mendocino County continued to “hack and squirt” without regard to its impacts to residents and firefighters. Instead of pausing, the timber industry attempted to influence public policy by urging citizens NOT to sign the petitions that would put this measure on the ballot." 



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