California IN BRIEF : FORTUNA : March Marks End of Redwood Summer
About 600 anti-logging demonstrators marched peacefully Monday in Fortuna to a lumber mill for the last planned protest of Redwood Summer. The “Redwoodstock” marchers were met by 100 counter-demonstrators. Authorities said there were no arrests and no violence as the environmentalists made their way to the Pacific Lumber Co. mill in this town on California’s northern coast. The march came on the third day of the last summer action planned by environmentalists who oppose clear-cutting and logging of old-growth timber. Logging companies had urged their employees and others who back timber interests to ignore the protest. Humboldt County sheriff’s officials said 700 to 800 Redwood Summer participants gathered peacefully over Labor Day weekend.
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