As a response to what they claim is a "well-funded timber industry with friends" in high places, the anti-logging movement has stepped up its efforts.
"Unable to match the industry financially, logging opponents are tapping a coalition of environmental groups and mainstream churches to gather the 419,260 signatures needed for a November 2002 ballot measure that would ban cutting virgin timber on nonfederal land and outlaw harvesting trees alive before California became a state in 1850."
Thanks to Abhijeet Chavan
FULL STORY: Logging debate heats up as forest, court actions counter timber money

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