Anti-Logging Movement Revives Activism

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.

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August 5, 2001, 8:00 AM PDT

By Abhijeet Chavan @http://twitter.com/legalaidtech

"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

Saturday, August 4, 2001 in The San Diego Union-Tribune

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