02/25/01
For the past eight months, a group of determined activists has
occupied two redwood groves slated for "selective harvest" by
local lumber behemoth Redwood Empire (RE) on the steep, rocky
northwestern slope of Ramsey Gulch.
The
treesitters are protecting about three of the 158 acres in RE's
Timber Harvest Plan (THP) in the foothills of the Santa Cruz Mountains,
high above the waterfalls and shaded pools of a creek that joins
the Pajaro River to replenish the watershed of the city of Watsonville,
supplying water to the farms and sprawling suburbs of the Salinas
Valley.
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