Pacific Lumber, environmentalists clash over loggingin the last unprotected area within the Headwaters Forest Reserve in California's North Coast.
Pacific Lumber wants to harvest 595 acres of land it bought in alast year's "Headwaters" agreement, which transferred a huge chunk of old-growth forest to public hands. Environmentalists oppose loggingin the last unprotected area unprotected area within the Headwaters Forest Reserve in California's North Coast.Environmentalists sued in March saying that the planto use helicopters to move logged trees from the areawould cause irreparable damage to the environment.
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FULL STORY: Pacific Lumber, environmentalists clash over unprotected acreage

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