Maxxam tries extortion to get logging approved-Letters needed
Maxxam/Pacific Lumber Tries to Extort More Logging Plans at Top Levels of State Government Pacific Lumber is once again holding ancient redwoods hostage and threatening dire consequences for the community and for protected ancient trees if they don’t get what they want. We’ve seen this before. During Headwaters deal negotiations in 1998-1999, their extortion efforts were for money (half a billion tax-payer bucks) and concessions on their Habitat Conservation Plan (HCP)-this time they are extorting suspension of regulatory limits on their logging. Maxxam CEO Charles Hurwitz himself met in private with top aides of the Gov. Schwarzenegger on January 11 …