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A Town Buries The Axe.(truce between loggers and environmentalists in Quincy, California)

Smithsonian

| July 01, 1999 | Kiester, Jr., Edwin | COPYRIGHT 1999 Smithsonian Institution. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

While I am studying the list of omelets and veggie burgers in the Morning Thunder Cafe in Quincy, California, Tom Nelson is looking around with a bemused expression. The restaurant is adorned with tie-dyed T- shirts and ads for self-actualization groups and rock concerts and is dominated by a giant espresso machine. To many old-timers in the Sierra Nevada town of 5,000, Morning Thunder is a hotbed of tree-huggers, hippies and out-and-out radicals. Nelson is a forester for Sierra Pacific Industries, the largest private timber owner in California, and a logger to the bottom of his calked boots. He shakes his head ruefully. "There was a time," he smiles, "when I would have ...

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