Activist and author David Harris has written a book titled The Last Stand which documents the links between 1980’s corporate raiding, and subsequent intense logging and protests in the redwood forests of northern California. The one-time family-run Pacific Lumber was taken over with the help of some of Michael Milken’s junk bonds and Ivan Boesky’s stock parking, forever changing the adjoining forest community.
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