Pacific Lumber Company
Автор:
Jesse Russell,Ronald Cohn, 84 стр., издатель:
"Книга по Требованию", ISBN:
978-5-5120-1088-4
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Pacific Lumber Company, officially abbreviated PALCO, was one of California's major logging and sawmill operations, located 28 miles (45 km) south of Eureka and 244 miles (393 km) north of San Francisco. The once storied company and its historically positive relationship with conservationists begun in the 1920s was altered drastically after a hostile takeover began in 1985. As a result, the company was transformed into a wholly owned subsidiary of Maxxam, Inc by 1986 and during its two final decades. The bulk of operations, including the historic company town of Scotia, California, remain adjacent to US 101 along the Eel River. Operations were split over several milling sites over the many years to mill logs from timber holdings exceeding well over 200,000 acres (890 km?) in the Redwood and Douglas-Fir forests of Humboldt County. For generations, it was one of the largest private employers in the entire region, appropriately known as the...