Henry Alden This is Me

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1. 1. North Coast Journal - November 1997: UPFRONT

   www.northcoastjournal.com/nov9 - [Cached]

   Published on: 11/1/1997   Last Visited: 2/3/2003

   "We'll stabilize as much of the dirt as we can (and) get an excavator out there and pick up the dirt, put in trucks and haul it to a place where it's stable," said PALCO Timberlands Manager Henry Alden.
   
   The Scotia company is also in a drama about to unfold in Humboldt County Superior Court.
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   "We've offered to upgrade 50 miles of road a year to higher standards," said Alden. "That means installing rolling dips, removing old (log and dirt) Humboldt crossings and replacing them with culverts." Alden estimates that 1,500 miles of roads traverse the company's 200,000 acres.
   
   "Another big change that's going on is shifting from tractor logging to cable yarding," he said. "The simple difference is that tractor logging has roads at the bottom (of a watershed), cable logging has roads at the top. With a road higher up, even if it fails it's less likely to cause damage (to a watercourse).