Word: pacificism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Not long after the Lighthawk flight, for perhaps the 30th time in two years, Thron broke the law by ignoring a no-trespassing sign in the tiny town of Fortuna and hiking up one of Pacific Lumber's logging roads. It was 10 p.m. and misting when he started, and...
The great redwoods here, 300 ft. tall and more, would have been cut five years ago if a local group, the Environmental Protection Information Center (EPIC), had not used the Endangered Species Act to entangle Pacific Lumber in a web of lawsuits. The web may be fragile; Pacific's executives...
For now, the Headwaters forest has an astonishing presence, and whatever city meaning there is to the notion of anyone's owning such a place loses force among the trees. Here the concept of unregulated private property, much admired by logging outfits, is an empty legalism.But the fact is that...
Hero or villain? Hurwitz didn't fire anybody; he hired more workers and added a fourth mill. He continued a Pacific Lumber practice of giving a college scholarship to every employee's child who finished high school. Top hourly pay runs about $15 to $16 an hour, in an area...
Pacific Lumber has been logging for 125 years and is accustomed to indulgent treatment by state forestry officials. Now several local creatures are on endangered-species lists: not only the murrelets but also the spotted owl, the peregrine falcon, the bald eagle and a couple of humble amphibians, the Pacific...