Lumber Company Pulls Plan to Log in Preserve
From Staff and Wire Reports
Pacific Lumber Co. has withdrawn a controversial plan to log trees near the Headwaters Forest Preserve in Northern California redwood country.
Company officials say they intend to conduct more research and resubmit the plan. The firm wanted to thin redwoods and Douglas firs used by the marbled murrelet, a rare bird protected by law.
Although the trees grow on company land, they are protected by conditions set in 1999 when the Headwaters preserve was acquired with $480 million in public funds.
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