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Photo Illustration by Luis G. Rendon/The Daily Beast/Greg King/GettyI spent the summer of 1990 “hiding out” at my parents’ modest home in western Sonoma County. At twenty-nine years old I’d landed back at the family abode after my two closest colleagues had been violently attacked and almost killed for attempting to protect redwood forests. After I’d lived through five years of threats and assaults for the crime of trying to save the very last ancient redwood groves still standing outside of par
Law enforcement has a shabby record when it comes to protecting environmental protestors and activists, but with the Judi Bari car bombing, it looked like the feds crossed a line.
California s Collusion with a Texas Timber Company Let Ancient Redwoods be Clearcut historynewsnetwork.org - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from historynewsnetwork.org Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Greg King is the President and Executive Director of the Siskiyou Land Conservancy and has been credited with spearheading the movement to protect Headwaters Forest, in Humboldt County, California. King initiated the “redwood wars” following the notorious 1985 takeover of the venerable Pacific Lumber Company by the Houston energy and real estate conglomerate Maxxam. This excerpt comes from his book The Ghost Forest: Racists, Radicals and Real Estate in the California Redwoods was published by