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Jan M. Flynn's avatar

Oy, I can feel my blood pressure ascending and my bladder squealing as I read this. And let us all declare a customer fatwa on Booking.com. As for anyone who wants to cut down old-growth redwoods, f**k you guys.

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thelma scudi's avatar

Julia, Crescent City has been as you saw it for the last fifty years. Coos Bay, if I remember correctly, is a large port shipping american redwood lumber to japan. Most of Highway 101, the freeway, is simply a line of redwoods along either side of the road obscuring the clear cut forests that have been replanted with six inch high hemlock or fir; referred to locally as "peckerwood pine."

The powers that be seem to think that no one will actually look past the redwoods they drive past, let alone explore what the lumber companies have done to the california coastal redwoods.

NOTHING I read from you makes any sense of you selling your house in a forest you love. Please, for your own sake, seriously reconsider and stay, living in that house.

I traveled all that area from 1971 until 1999, working for several government agencies and interviewing ranchers, farmers, and agricultural businesses to gather statistics for the agencies to use in decision making. not sure it did much good. contact me privately, if you wish.

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