Sonoma County family’s logging plan for Jenner forestland riles coastal community, environmentalists
For several generations, the Berry family has logged the forest on their sprawling coastal property near the mouth of the Russian River to feed a sawmill they continue to operate a few miles upstream. But the family’s latest plan for 1,099 acres of forest they own overlooking the river near its outlet at Jenner has riled this small community, raising concerns about the long-term impacts on drinking water and imperiled salmon runs that have yet to recover from a century of destructive commercial logging. … [P]roject opponents … worry that more heavy equipment on forest slopes could unleash more sediment into the waterway — a chronic problem in the wake of heavy-handed logging over the past century or more, with especially harmful fallout for fish populations.
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