Posted on 04/06/2005 6:37:13 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
SCOTIA, Calif. (AP) - State water officials ordered Pacific Lumber Co. to temporarily halt logging in Humboldt County on Wednesday after environmentalists filed a petition questioning the validity of the company's timber harvest plans.
The State Water Resources Control Board issued the stay requested by the Humboldt Watershed Council and the Environmental Protection Information Center to suspend logging in parts of the Freshwater Creek and Elk River watersheds near Eureka on California's far northern coast.
In February, the North Coast Regional Water Quality Control Board agreed to allow Pacific Lumber to cut up to 50 percent of the annual 1,100-acre harvest limit in the environmentally fragile watersheds, where residents complain that logging operations have caused flooding and property damage.
After Pacific Lumber officials protested, the regional water board voted 5-3 last month to allow the Scotia-based firm to log 25 percent - or about 400 acres - more than the board's executive director, Catherine Kuhlman, gave the company permission to harvest.
The state water board's decision Wednesday will prevent Pacific Lumber from logging the additional 25 percent until the board can hold a hearing on the environmental groups' petition. No hearing date has been set.
Pacific Lumber officials said the stay would create more financial uncertainty for the struggling timber firm, which has threatened to file bankruptcy if it can't down enough trees. The company said it would immediately appeal Wednesday's decision.
Yes, your Honor the defense has just one question of the petitioner. On what did they file their petition? Paper? I rest my case your Honor.
If this keeps up the only thing to do up there will be grow pot.
Hemp makes good paper and cloth...
In Northern California, there is a very high concentration of wackos. Especially in Humboldt County.
The Governator should step in. If the state wants more business to move in, they better have a darn good reason for hindering businesses which are already operating in the state.
Will they halt logging TEMPORARILY in HUMBOLDT COUNTY?
charles Hurowitz basically started logging the redwoods so fast, which was technically his right, that even the workers were scared, believing that he was selling their livlihoods right out from under them....
He also bought Kaiser Aluminum and has successfully drained all the value from several plants, while reaping millions and millions, and his major accomplishment was to steal away thousands of workers, retirees as well, of their pensions and their retirement medical benefits....
so now instead of a tidy retiremnet plan and bennies, the rank and file and the management as well get to collect meager pensions paid for by the the American taxpaper in the form of the Pension Gurarantee Board.....
my husband was one of them....
so Pacific Lumbar gets no sympathy from me, if still owned by Hurowitz.....he deserves to be in jail....
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