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...year 2000. Two weeks ago the mountain was shaken by a sharp earthquake, followed by a series of tremors. Then came another jolt. Suddenly last Thursday, the silence on the snow-covered slopes was shattered by an explosion that was heard 40 miles away. Said Barry Blair, a logger cutting timber twelve miles from the peak: "There were two little booms and then one great big one. It got real smoky and we discovered we were covered with...
Medically, things are looking up for people on the Hill, a rough, largely unchanged slab of the California Sierras, dotted with gold-panners' shanties and crisscrossed by streams of flashing gold and speckled trout. Fortnight ago, for example, when Logger Bill Lingenfelter was pinned by a "widowmaker"-a tree falling in the wrong direction-his crew mates rushed him to Dr. John Rose. The "Doc" swiftly took 30 stitches in Lingenfelter's right leg and put splints...
...since the state decriminalized possession of less than an ounce," says one grower. Soon after the legislature's action, police stumbled upon more than an acre of pot near a shed stocked with drying racks, bags and labels with the brand name American Dream printed in purple. Then a logger was nearly killed when he tripped a dynamite trap around a well-tended marijuana patch. "That's when we began to think that this was serious business," recalls Oregon Narcotics Agent Garold Assmus...
Snyder, who has worked as a logger, forester, carpenter and seaman and lived in Japan for ten years, is now residing in the California mountains. The poet was appointed to the California Council of the Arts by Gov. Edmund G. Brown...
...young woman claimed to have been raped near Bemidji, Minn., by the iceman, a Bigfoot-like creature, and at least one tabloid screamed, "I Was Raped by the Abominable Snowman." A Canadian logger waited until 1957 before claiming he had been carried off to the home of a Sasquatch in 1924. Though still in his sleeping bag when he arrived, his report suggests, he soon adjusted to life as captive of a Sasquatch family of four. He said he escaped after a week...