COMPANY TO RESUME REDWOOD FOREST WORK.Byline: Associated Press Associated Press: see news agency. Associated Press (AP) Cooperative news agency, the oldest and largest in the U.S. and long the largest in the world. State forestry officials cleared the way Thursday for Pacific Lumber Co. to resume salvage logging Salvage logging is the practice of felling trees in forest areas that have been damaged by fire. In the United States, salvage logging is a controversial issue for two main reasons. in an old-growth redwood forest, as a stop-work order against the company expired. ``The order has been rescinded and they fully intend to go back in (this) morning,'' said Humboldt County Humboldt County is the name of three counties in the United States:
The order issued by the California Department of Forestry expired at 4 p.m. Thursday, allowing the company to resume taking dead, dying and diseased trees - all fallen timber - from 450 acres in the Bell-Lawrence tract northeast of the Headwaters Forest The Headwaters forest is a series of old growth redwood groves measuring about 60,000 acres (240 km²). Located in the northern region of the U.S. state of California, most of it is owned by timber company PalCo, which is owned by Charles Hurwitz and Maxxam Inc. . The CDF (1) (Central Distribution Frame) A connecting unit (typically a hub) that acts as a central distribution point to all the nodes in a zone or domain. See MDF. ordered a temporary halt to the 3-day-old salvage operation after Pacific Lumber loggers knocked down a 10-inch-wide hemlock hemlock, any tree of the genus Tsuga, coniferous evergreens of the family Pinaceae (pine family) native to North America and Asia. The common hemlock of E North America is T. while dragging a fallen tree out to a skid road. Environmentalists continued scattered protests against the salvage operation. About 100 protesters were gathered Thursday at a base camp east of Fortuna. Two people were held on felony conspiracy charges after they were arrested for trespassing near Pacific Lumber's Carlotta mill toting food, backpacks and supplies. On Wednesday, 22 environmentalists were arrested near Pacific Lumber's Carlotta mill, site of more than 1,000 arrests during a civil disobedience civil disobedience, refusal to obey a law or follow a policy believed to be unjust. Practitioners of civil disobediance basing their actions on moral right and usually employ the nonviolent technique of passive resistance in order to bring wider attention to the demonstration Sept. 15. ``They were arrested on conspiracy (to trespass) charges because they were caught with a large amount of supplies,'' Philp said. About 200 people have been arrested in numerous small protests during the past three weeks, he added. Environmentalists are opposed to salvage logging in the Headwaters, and have sought a ban on the practice throughout the 60,000-acre forest complex. To date, the courts and state regulators have rejected their requests. On Sept. 28, Texas financier Charles Hurwitz, who controls Pacific Lumber, signed an agreement with state and federal officials to turn 7,500 acres of Headwaters land into a public preserve, in return for $380 million worth of government property and assets. |
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