Headwaters Deal Sparks Protest
Environmentalists protesting a government-brokered deal as protecting too little of the ancient Headwaters Forest chanted and howled Monday as they linked arms and surrounded Pacific Lumber Co.’s corporate headquarters.
Sheriff’s deputies in riot gear arrested three people after they refused orders to move. About 250 people participated in the protest.
The demonstration was the latest in a series of scattered protests over an accord between financier Charles Hurwitz, who controls Pacific Lumber, and the state and federal governments. The pact sets aside 7,500 acres, most of it owned by Pacific Lumber, for public use in the old-growth redwood forest nearly 300 miles north of San Francisco.
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