PACIFIC LUMBER SETTLES ROAD CASE
Published on August 11, 2004
© 2004- The Press Democrat
BYLINE: Mike Geniella
PAGE: B3
COLUMN: Around the Empire
Pacific Lumber Co. will pay $80,000 in penalties to settle a civil case brought by Humboldt County prosecutors over poor road reconstruction work on company timberlands.
In a statement issued Tuesday announcing the settlement, District Attorney Paul Gallegos said he was proud of the work done by Deputy District Attorney Paul Hagen and fishery representatives of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
``Without their hard work and commitment, this wrong would have gone unpunished and unfixed,'' Gallegos said.
But Pacific Lumber's Chuck Center described the District Attorney's actions in filing the case as ``needlessly punitive.''
At issue are mixed results from Pacific Lumber's efforts two years ago to upgrade logging roads constructed more than 40 years ago.
Center said despite the company's ``total cooperation, and the (state and federal) agencies consensus that our repair work exceeded required standards,'' prosecutors decided to proceed with the civil action anyway.
-- Mike Geniella
Keywords: TIMBER ROAD SETTLEMENT LAWSUIT
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