Regional News
Foundation Purchases 50,000-Acre "Usal Unit"
by Cristina Bauss
A private foundation that has purchased 50,635 acres of timberland in northern Mendocino County hopes its model of community-oriented forest ownership and management will be adopted by other communities traditionally dependent on the forest's bounty for their survival.
"Fast forward"
by HANK SIMS ["The Town Dandy" column] - From the North Coast Journal
An article about Redwood Forest Foundation, Inc and the role that it played in the purchase of over 50,000 acres of timber land in Mendocino County know as the Usal Redwood Forest
"There's probably a whole lot of people around Humboldt County who got their first introduction to Redwood Forest Foundation, Inc. (RFFI) a few months ago. A non-scandal had erupted, then quickly fizzled, over the work of Times-Standard reporter John Driscoll, who had been covering the Pacific Lumber bankruptcy hearings in Corpus Christi, Texas. A group of people, including activist Mark Lovelace, had been following the proceedings through a paid conference call service; they invited Driscoll to join them, and he did, covering the proceedings for his paper. When the T-S's opponents on the Eureka Reporter editorial board heard of this, they got into a great huff. (See "Town Dandy," March 15.) One stray bit of information that emerged from the ensuing fallout was that RFFI had paid for the conference call."
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