Local and national conservation groups join forces, sue timber company over logging project

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LITTLE RIVER, 9/25/20 — Two conservation groups, Friends of Gualala River, and the Center for Biological Diversity have filed a lawsuit in federal court against Gualala Redwood Timber Company. They claim the timber company’s planned timber harvest project in the Gualala River watershed violates the federal Endangered Species Act (ESA). The suit was filed in the U.S. District Court Northern District of California on September 15.