up!CRC Orick Mill to Close: The tiny town to our north loses 47 jobs as California Redwood Co. moves to consolidate the Orick sawmill with the Korbel mothership, reports
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Loggers Going Green – NYTimes.com
Loggers Going Green – NYTimes.com: This story in yesterday’s NYT imagines the two opposing forces that have shaped our local community — namely loggers and environmentalists — coming together for a cause: their mutual love of Coca-Cola. Wait, make that saving the planet AND jobs at the same time. “Some people who have long fought […]
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Hurwitz on Trial
Hurwitz on Trial: The Chron reports that federal District Judge Claudia Wilken has ruled that the qui tam (whistleblower) lawsuit against Maxxam and CEO Charles Hurwitz may proceed. It’s scheduled to go to trial April 20. The suit, which was filed in early 2007, alleges that Hurwitz’s Maxxam fudged numbers during the Headwaters Forest negotiations […]
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Mother Jones on the big tree hug
from www.wordle.net Mother Jones magazine’s story on the end of the timber war in Humboldt, in the November/December issue, contains all of the requisite key words for a good local yarn: treesitters, sneaking, tofu, ruddy, mustache, glint, dash, fun, tree, old growth, chainsaw, Hurwitz, clearcut, Lorax, locked, crushed, wiped out, redwoods, debt, slow-growth, hug, happy, […]