Shutdown Threat Pays Off ; California Allows Lumber Company to Cut in Watersheds

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SAN FRANCISCO California water officials agreed Friday to allow Pacific Lumber Co. to conduct limited logging in environmentally fragile areas after the timber giant threatened to declare bankruptcy if it wasn't allowed to cut more trees.

The Scotia-based company had said a bankruptcy filing would undermine environmental protections negotiated under the landmark 1999 Headwaters deal, which spared thousands of acres of Redwood forests along the state's northern coast.

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Shutdown Threat Pays Off ; California Allows Lumber Company to Cut in Watersheds

The decision by the North Coast Regional Water Quality Control Board allows the company to cut up to 50 percent of the annual 1,100- acre harvest limit in two Humboldt County watersheds. Residents there had complained that logg...

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