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From what I understand of the situation(only a little), here's the gist of it:
1). The owner of the Texas Maxxim company was wrapped up the in the Keating 5 S&L bailout scandle.
2). Instead of going to going to jail and getting packed for the rest of his life, the government gave him a large bill.
3). He bought up Pacific Lumber: A large muti-generation family logging comany which had decent emloyee benefits and renewable logging practices to keep the the area resources viable.
That means your grandchildren would be able to build cedar deck decades from now.
4). He gutted the company and employee pension funds, and began clear-cutting old growth areas, then salting them so the tree wouldn't grow back(probably for quick-sale deveopment).
5). This resulted in a massive loss of lumbering jobs, and devistation of the regions ecology.
6). Earth First leaders Judy Bari/Dail Cherny's car was bombed, then the FBI chargd them with it. They filed suit against the FBI. She caught a quick case of cancer(like Jack Ruby) and died soon after.
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