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Environment & Natural Resources

Lawsuit challenges timber plan that allegedly includes thousands of old growth trees

By Dave Brooksher, Contributing Writer | April 15, 2022

MRC has a corporate policy prohibiting old-growth harvest, but plaintiffs argue “large old trees” will be cut; MRC acknowledges that they intend to use “hack and squirt” treatment on tanoak trees in violation of Measure V, but contend that state law supersedes county code.

Environment & Natural Resources

Grey wolf wanders into farmlands of central Fresno County — west of the 99

By Lana Cohen, Staff Reporter | March 24, 2021

A grey wolf that left its Oregon pack has traveled through Tuolumne, Mariposa, Merced, Madera and Fresno counties over the past few weeks.

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

By Lana Cohen, Staff Reporter | September 25, 2020

Friends of Gualala River and Center for Biological Diversity sue Gualala Redwood Timber over a logging project they claim violates the federal endangered species act.