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摘要

It's been 20 years since Texas corporate raider Charles Hur-witz and his Maxxam company took over the family-owned Northern California logging firm Pacific Lumber and immediately doubled the cut in and around Headwaters Forest, California's largest unprotected groves of ancient redwoods. Today Hurwitzand Maxxam are hundreds of millions of dollars richer, and Pacific Lumber is bankrupt and mired in lawsuits. Rather than head back to Houston, Hurwitz is pursuing what Sierra Club California's forestry expert Paul Mason calls a "wildly delusional" reorganization plan that includes 22,000 acres of residential development. "He's trying to wear people down," says environmental attorney Sharon Duggan. "He gets away with it because he has more money and resources and tenacity than any government entity yet."