Logging deal saves redwood forest SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - Groves of towering redwoods that were saplings when the Roman Empire was at its height have been saved in a middle-of-the-night deal with the timber company that owns the tract along California's fog-shrouded Pacific Coast. The state and federal government will spend $480 million to buy the 12-square-mile Headwaters Forest from the Pacific Lumber Co. and set the property aside as a public preserve. The deal was reached early Tuesday after negotiations went on past Monday's midnight deadline. The agreement, which concludes more than a decade of negotiations, also imposes timber-cutting restrictions for the next 50 years on an additional 330 square miles of redwoods that Pacific Lumber will still own. That area includes 12 stands of redwoods dating back 1,000 years. See full story <http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2558653472-f94>
