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...plan might work if the landowner respected the land. This appears to have been the case with Pacific Lumber before Hurwitz bought it in a hostile takeover in 1985. But since then, on the evidence of a passionate new book by activist Doug Thron, a photographer and lecturer, and reporter Joan Dunning, accelerated logging has devastated the land and the streams that flow through it. From the Redwood Forest (Chelsea Green; $24.95) relates a brutal progression. Pacific Lumber, under Maxxam and Hurwitz, started widespread clear-cutting, a practice that leaves no tree standing and works against natural regrowth. Then Pacific...
...Julia Hill, a young Earth Firster who calls herself Butterfly, climbed a 200-ft. redwood near the Eel River. She intended to save at least one tree, staying in the branches indefinitely with help from friends who supplied food. Later, reporter Dunning climbed up, fearfully, to interview her. Thron followed to photograph the interview. They came down. But as of last week, Butterfly, despite the clear-cutting of surrounding trees and occasional storm winds that approached 90 m.p.h., was still there...
Most of the 5,000 to 6,000 acres of privately owned old growth that remain can be seen in five minutes from a small plane circling inland near Humboldt Bay. Thron and pilot Lew Nash, a volunteer for the environmental flying service Lighthawk, point out fragments of what was an enormous woodland. There is one intact 3,000-acre forest called Headwaters -- the largest uncut stand anywhere still in private hands -- and smaller clusters surviving around Owl Creek, Allen Creek and Shaw Creek. All are listed for cutting. "They want to turn all that into lawn furniture...
...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 3 a.m., with a light rain falling, when he set up his tent. Two hours later, before first light, Thron was standing outside the tent, rain running down the back of his neck. After perhaps five minutes, he heard a short, musical, descending call -- the "keer" of a marbled murrelet. Huge...
Deep in the Headwaters forest, as these matters simmered, activist Thron spent his day making photos, then hiked back down the trail after dark. Last fall Hurwitz's lawyers threatened to sue Thron unless he ceased his photographic raids and stopped giving the Headwaters show. He and Ingrey kept on trucking. The two were married last week in Arcata and plan to hit the road with fresh slides...