OTHER NEWS - July 29, 1994

Curbs Sought on Redwood Logging: Mendocino County supervisors approved tough curbs on annual tree harvests. State approval is pending on the action by the county, home to half of California’s redwood trees. Under the rules, timber companies owning at least 5,000 acres would be prohibited from cutting more than 2% of the trees on their land each year. Logging in areas supporting Coho salmon spawning streams also would be restricted. Rapidly shrinking timber on Mendocino County’s 1.3 million acres of forest land was a driving force behind the logging limit, said Hans Burkhardt, a botanist who did a study for the county.