"The Last Stand" cover article in Bohemian + "Waves Not Wine" letter

"The Last Stand" is the cover article in this week's Bohemian, about "Gualala River logging plan draws fire," the first paragraphs of which follows. A letter to the editor by Victor Sund of Jenner with the headline "Waves Not Wine," about the need for "stronger protection...for our coastal hills," also follows. This letter also appeared in yesterday's PD, under the headline "Coastal Wineries."

Forest for the Trees, Coastal redwoods battle heats up along the Gualala River
BY WILL PARRISH

The fight to save majestic coastal redwood groves in California has been waged for more than a century, starting with the campaign that created Big Basin State Park in 1902.

In 1978, the Sierra Club dubbed its successful campaign to expand Redwood State and National Park the "last battle" of "the redwood war," but the battles to protect this globally recognized icon of nature would only intensify.

In 1985, a junk-bond dealer named Charles Hurwitz engineered a hostile takeover of Humboldt County's most respected logging company, Pacific Lumber, and folded it into Houston-based investment company Maxxam. Meanwhile, Louisiana-Pacific, a Georgia-Pacific spin-off, was cutting its more than 300,000 acres in Mendocino and Sonoma counties at roughly three times the forest's rate of growth...

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