It fulfills something in each person who lives here. So it's radical to see the desecration of it. The logging should give him only enough capital to improve a dirt road to the top of the mountain, he says, where he wants to build his dream house. We're not going to do something that's harmful. His neighbors disagree.
Conservationists hope to protect oak woodlands .
By 1996, that figure had jumped nearly 20 percent as 47 THPs called for the cutting of 6,921 acres. Late last month, L-P's announcement that it will sell off its redwood timber operations on the North Coast seemed to dramatically confirm the depletion of Mendocino County's timber reserves. Now timber companies are looking to Sonoma County's many small landowners and their abundant local supply of timber to fill the void. Assessors' rolls are being combed to find people to approach to buy up the timber or the timberland. And that is exciting more neighbors than it used to.