Water Board OKs Fifty Percent of PL’s Logging in Disputed Watersheds
BACHsters: This piece, written by Remedy, covers the decision made yesterday by the Water Board regarding the contentious timber harvest plans that Maxxam/PL has been trying to get approved by threatening bankruptcy (see previous BACH alerts). Your BACH rep attended the hearing in Eureka Feb. 23 when both PL and the watershed residents presented their arguments to the Water Quality agency, just before the executive officer made her decision. I will give a more detailed update on that hearing and related issues at the next BACH meeting (Thurs. March 10, 7 pm at the Rockridge Library in Oakland). Press coverage …