CALIFORNIA IN BRIEF : SACRAMENTO : Protesters Launch Anti-Logging Push
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
Protesters launched Redwood Summer at the Port of Sacramento with a small but spirited demonstration aimed at the over-harvesting of timber and the cutting of old-growth redwoods. The anti-logging activists had planned to interfere with loading of logs aboard a ship bound for Japan, but the vessel sailed a day earlier, port officials said. Environmentalists are planning widespread anti-logging activities in coming months, designated Redwood Summer by Earth First! organizers.
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