In the late 1990s, Julia “Butterfly” Hill protested logging by living for more than two years in an old-growth redwood tree nicknamed Luna on land owned by the Pacific Lumber Co. Another timber firm has since bought Pacific Lumber, renamed it Humboldt Redwood Co. and set out on a path away from aggressive logging practices. (Shaun Walker / For The Times)
Wood planks in 2005 are ready for loading at the Pacific Lumber Co. plant in Scotia, Calif. Humboldt Redwood Co., which now owns the 328 square miles of coastal forest, vows not to cut any redwood born before 1800 with a diameter of 4 feet or more. (Ben Margot / Associated Press)
