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A clear-cut decision for Sierra Pacific

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Sierra Pacific Industries owns more than a million acres of California forest and isn’t pleased with the kind of trees on those holdings. So it plans to cut a great many of them down and replace them over the next century or so.

On Thursday, the California Supreme Court sided with the company in its plans to clear-cut 1,100 acres in Calaveras County, AP reports. That has some environmentalists worried the judge was not seeing the forest for the trees. They had sued, saying the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection should not have approved the plan near Calaveras Big Trees State Park.

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Sierra Pacific said its victory was ‘a stinging rebuke’ to anti-logging forces. ‘We will continue to press on with our management,’ said SPI spokesman Mark Pawlicki.

-- Geoffrey Mohan

Credit: Bob Galbraith / Associated Press

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