The Mendocino Voice ·
Judge halts logging above Dutch Charlie Creek with most of it already done
Logging on 926 acres in the hills west of Laytonville is stopped under two court orders at once. The First District Court of Appeal froze most timber operations there on Aug. 17. Mendocino County Superior Court Judge Charlotte Scott granted a preliminary injunction, the second order, on Sept. 2, according to a Sept. 4 release from Friends of Dutch Charlie Creek, the citizens’ group that sued Cal Fire. A notice of Scott’s decision was filed in the group’s appeal the next day.