Gap Boycott Planned over California Redwoods
11/21/98
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Title: Gap Boycott Planned over California Redwoods
Source: The Associated Press
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Date: 11/21/98
UKIAH, Calif (AP) -- Environmentalists fighting to save the redwoods from
logging have found a new target: the Gap.
The groups are urging members to boycott Northern California stores of
Gap, Banana Republic and Old Navy -- all three owned by Gap Inc. --
starting on the busy shopping day after Thanksgiving.
The Fisher family of San Francisco, which made its fortune with Gap Inc.,
pledged to be kinder to the environment when it bought 235,000 acres of
Louisiana Pacific Corp. land near Ukiah earlier this year.
But activists said the Fishers' Mendocino Redwood Co. has refused to ban
clearcutting, herbicide spraying and logging of scattered pockets of old-
growth timber left on the properties.
``These forests can't take any more of this kind of logging,'' said Mary
Pjerrou, president of the Redwoods Coast Watershed Alliance, one of
several environmental groups involved.
A Fisher family representative said the family has been a longtime
supporter of environmental causes and has reduced logging by 15 percent on
the land.