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...bitter environmental battle over logging in redwood groves turned deadly last week when Earth First activists challenged Pacific Lumber Co. loggers at work above Grizzly Creek in California's Humboldt County. Cat-and-mouse taunting between protesters and timber crews had gone on for years, but recent confrontations had turned sour. Earlier this year an activist took refuge in a 40-ft. redwood sapling, and loggers felled the tree. Somehow the climber tumbled out unharmed. Last week's skirmish ended differently: with shouts, the whine of a chain saw and a falling redwood hitting another tree. As the confusion...
Maybe. In any case, for environmentalists, "tree museum" is a phrase uttered with a shrug. The 3,500 acres of Headwaters don't really amount to a forest. Large redwood forests create their own microclimates. They are rainmakers. And the other 4,000 acres paid for by the Deal, though they have some big trees, are too fragmented to be an effective wildlife habitat for murrelets, Pacific giant salamanders and the spotted owls that loggers love to hate. In particular, they offer little protection for coho salmon, listed as threatened in the state. Salmon need cool, shaded, clear streams...
DIED. THE REV. RAYMOND BROWN, 70, biblical scholar and author of more than 40 books who sought to illuminate the historical basis of the Gospels; in Redwood City, Calif...
...legend of Diana is just beginning. The people of Britain are very proud of their beautiful princess, who lit up the world with her unique smile and traveled the globe bringing peace and harmony everywhere she went. FRANK A. LOPEZ Redwood City, Calif...
LOCATION 2,700 pristine acres in the redwood forest of Sonoma County on the banks of the Russian River...