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...specimen, a rust-colored giant 14 ft. in diameter and perhaps 1,000 years old, overlooks a massive mud slide in Stafford, Calif., that destroyed or damaged 10 houses last year. Homeowners are suing the Pacific Lumber Co., which was clear-cutting in the area...
Five miles away, at Pacific Lumber headquarters, spokeswoman Mary Bullwinkel deadpans, "I don't believe trees can talk." Butterfly's redwood tree is a valuable hostage; if it were sawed into boards for luxury-home paneling or outdoor decks, it would be worth a six-figure sum. And trees like that translate into jobs for loggers. When the Eureka Times-Standard, the local paper, printed stories about Butterfly last month, it was showered with complaints. "We write about rapists, but it doesn't mean we support them," huffed editor David Little in a column defending his news judgment. "Lighten...
...inhabitants of Dunster E-22 spent a good part of the month of November in the Dunster woodworking shop. It all began with a trip to Home Depot for lumber, after which the roommates sanded and stained the veneer in the shop but had to do the final assembly in their room. "It was like building a ship in a bottle," said Dan Horwitz...
...Auburn Street resident reported that between 9 a.m. on Oct. 13 and 9 a.m. on Oct. 15 an unknown person left a threatening note on lumber that he had bought to build a religious structure...
...real tragedy is that this crisis was avoidable. Far from being acts of God, the forest fires were set by Indonesian lumber and plantation companies who were trying to clear land. Indonesia's government could do little more than apologize to its neighbors. They might have to try a bit harder: the monsoon rains, which would douse the fires and cleanse the air, have been delayed by the El Nino climate system, and do not appear to be due for another month...