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Greg King is the President and Executive Director of the Siskiyou Land Conservancy and has been credited with spearheading the movement to protect Headwaters Forest, in Humboldt County, California. King initiated the “redwood wars” following the notorious 1985 takeover of the venerable Pacific Lumber Company by the Houston energy and real estate conglomerate Maxxam. This excerpt comes from his book The Ghost Forest: Racists, Radicals and Real Estate in the California Redwoods was published by

Likely to become a classic, Greg King's first solo book The Ghost Forest is aptly titled — a must-read that deftly chronicles how 96 percent...

<p>It wasn&#39;t shocking that a Houston-based energy company would seek to liquidate newly acquired holdings of ancient redwood trees and defy California law to do it. It was shocking that state agencies seemed determined to help them do it.&nbsp;</p>

Editor: Thanks to Elaine Weinreb for reminding readers of Elk River's recent history ("The Whole System is Broken," Feb. 16). What she describes is the...

This two-mile addition to the Oregon Coast Trail offers beautiful scenery of Nehalem Bay and secondary-growth forest, and connects to Neahkahnie Mountain.