RE: Off Topic: Basic Assumptions

[Greg Peisert <gpeisert@jamesgregory.com>]

On Sunday, February 28, 1999 1:38 AM, Margaret Tarbet 
[SMTP:tarbet@swaa.com] wrote:
> SAN FRANCISCO (CNN) -- A timber company has rejected a $480
> million proposal to save the ancient Headwaters Forest, the world's
> largest remaining grove of privately owned redwoods in Northern
> California.
>
> Some of the trees in the majestic groves 250 miles north of San
> Francisco are 1,500 years old.
>
> The Headwaters Forest has pitted environmentalists against Texas
> financier Charles Hurwitz, who controls Pacific Lumber through his
> Houston-based Maxxam Corp.
>
> Hurwitz purchased Pacific Lumber in 1985. Logging increased under
> his ownership, prompting several protests.
>
> http://www.cnn.com/US/9902/27/redwoods.01/
>
>
> Greed.

  Yup. I've been there. It's a magnificent area. Can we petition Congress 
and the White House to purchase it and include it as part of the National 
Parks system??

--Greg