Local unemployment hit a 16-year high this March. With timber demand down, Humboldt Redwood Company will cut just a third of its planned 2009-2010 harvest. The notion that you can log a forest ...

On day 323 of the transect, in Jedediah Smith Redwoods State Park, I dropped over a log 18 feet in diameter into an abyss of giant botanical pickup sticks, deadfall that had piled up amid the ...