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Trump Points Finger at Iran Nation: Synthetic pot Business: 49,000 members of the Local: So where will Trump’s Sports: Time to change found in some vapes. A2 United Auto Workers out on strike. C7 Bay Area fundraiser be? B1 the Levi’s narrative. C1 The Mercury News - 09/17/2019 Copy Reduced to 74% from original to fit letter page Page : A01 The newspaper of Silicon Valley 111 Volume 169, issue 90 TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 2019 24/7 COVERAGE: MERCURYNEWS.COM » $1.50 SAVE THE REDWOODS LEAGUE MIDDLE EAST Conservation group’s ‘prize’ — Trump massive land of ancient giants Nonprofit to pay $15M points for 530-acre privately owned sequoia forest By Paul Rogers [email protected] A Bay Area conservation finger group has signed a deal to purchase the world’s larg- est privately owned giant se- quoia forest, a primeval land- scape in California’s Southern Sierra Nevada with massive at Iran trees that soar 250 feet tall, span up to 80 feet around at President says U.S. military their trunks and live for more than 2,000 years. action not yet planned after The 530-acre property, attack on Saudi oil facilities known as the Alder Creek, is roughly the same size as Muir Woods National Monument By Robert Burns The Associated Press in Marin County. Located in Tulare County 10 miles south WASHINGTON » President Donald Trump of Sequoia National Park, it declared Monday that it “looks” like is home to 483 trees that are Iran was behind the explosive attack larger than 6 feet in diame- on Saudi Arabian oil facilities. But he ter — four more trees than the stressed that military retaliation was famed Mariposa Grove at Yo- not yet on the table in response to the semite National Park. strike against a key U.S. Mideast ally. “This is probably the most Oil prices soared worldwide amid the coveted sequoia conservation damage in Saudi Arabia and fresh Mid- opportunity in a generation,” dle East war concerns. But Trump put said Sam Hodder, president of the brakes on any talk of quick military Save the Redwoods League, a action — earlier he said the U.S. was nonprofit group based in San “locked and loaded” — and he said the Francisco that has agreed to oil impact would not be significant on pay $15.6 million to purchase the U.S., which is a net energy exporter. the property. The Saudi government called the at- “It’s not any single tree,” he tack an “unprecedented act of aggres- said of the landscape, which sion and sabotage” but stopped short of eventually will be open to directly pinning blame on Iran. the public. “This is an al- Iran denied involvement. pine landscape covered with Trump, who has repeatedly stressed iconic, breathtaking, cinna- avoiding new Middle East wars, seemed mon-barked trees that are sur- intent on preserving room to maneuver rounded by pastures. It is such in a crisis that Secretary of State Mike a superlative representation of Pompeo had immediately called Iran’s nature. This is the prize. This fault. Pompeo said Saturday, “Iran has is the best of what’s left. It’s a now launched an unprecedented attack very special place.” on the world’s energy supply.” The league, founded in Trump, too, had talked more harshly 1918, signed a purchase agree- at first. But by Monday afternoon, he ment with the Rouch family, seemed intent on consultations with al- who has owned the land since lies. the 1940s. The family’s patri- “That was an attack on Saudi Ara- arch, Claud Albert, bought the bia,” he said. land for its logging potential “It wasn’t an attack on us, but we just before World War II, said would certainly help them,” he said, not- his grandson, Mike Rouch, of ing a decadeslong alliance linked to U.S. Fresno. oil dependence that has lessened in re- “When they bought the cent years. The U.S. has no treaty obli- property there was not even a gation to defend Saudi Arabia. road to it,” he said. “They had Trump said he was sending Pompeo to ride horses.” to Saudi Arabia “to discuss what they Over the generations, the VICTORIA REEDER — SAVE THE REDWOODS LEAGUE feel” about the attack and an appropri- family cut down sugar pine, The Alder Creek property in the Southern Sierra, 10 miles south of Sequoia National Park, is the ate response. SEQUOIAS » PAGE 5 world’s largest privately owned giant sequoia forest, with 483 trees larger than 6 feet in diameter. IRAN » PAGE 5 BAYCopyright AREA (c)2019 The Mercury News, Edition. Please review new arbitration language here. 09/17/2019 September 17, 2019 7:39 am (GMT +7:00) 50,000 MORE REQUESTED Powered by TECNAVIA California pipeline: How Coalition urges president illegal guns end up here to boost housing vouchers Hundreds of thousands “If you want a Appeal comes after come from places that have machine gun, that recent threat to crack fewer gun restrictions might be more down on homelessness (money). If you want By Nate Gartrell and Anda Chu a silencer, that might By Emily DeRuy Staff writers be more. It’s supply ederuy@ bayareanewsgroup.com In August 2018, convicted felon and demand, like Dereke Holden of San Jose sold everything else.” Days after President Don- $13,200 worth of guns to an under- ald Trump hammered Califor- cover police officer within a matter — Jill Snyder, special agent with the nia for not solving its home- federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, of days. Firearms and Explosives lessness crisis and threatened Background-check laws prevented to get the federal government him from purchasing a firearm le- involved, Gov. Gavin Newsom gally, so Holden came up with a two assault rifles to an undercover is urging him to help boost workaround that federal authori- police officer. Last November, the the supply of affordable hous- KARL MONDON — STAFF ARCHIVES ties say is part of a statewide trend: two were indicted as part of a large ing. The Bay Area has seen a major uptick in the number of people He recruited a friend to buy guns in federal and state investigation tar- The California State Asso- who can’t afford the region’s expensive housing costs. a place with fewer gun restrictions geting gun and drug trafficking in ciation of Counties, the Cal- than the Bay Area — in this case, Las the South Bay. ifornia League of Cities and sue 50,000 more housing also wants the federal govern- Vegas — and bring them back. The case pales in comparison to mayors from the biggest cit- vouchers, which low-income ment to increase the value of It was through this method that the scale of several Bay Area gun ies in the state joined the gov- families rely on to subsidize vouchers and provide incen- Holden and 22-year-old Jose Soto- rings that have been busted in recent ernor Monday in urging the the cost of renting on the pri- tives to landlords willing to mayor came to sell nine pistols and GUNS » PAGE 5 Trump administration to is- vate market. The coalition NEWSOM » PAGE 5 NEWS ON YOUR PHONE INDEX Comics/TV ............. B10 Obituaries .................B6 WEATHER H: 75-78 L: 58-61 Subscribe: Download the Mercury News Business ....................C7 Lottery ...................... A2 Puzzles ...............B9, C6 MercuryNews.com Full report on B12 ©2019 mobile app for iPhone or Android. Classified ..................B8 Movies .......................B4 Weather .................. B12 6 40493 00001 1 The Mercury News - 09/17/2019 Copy Reduced to 79% from original to fit letter page Page : A05 TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 2019 111 BAY AREA NEWS GROUP A5 MONO CO. S.F. Map thick brush and trees, Sequoias area INYO CO. which the National Park Bishop Service regularly does at FROM PAGE 1 Los Angeles Mariposa Grove in Yosem- 395 ite, reduces the risk of se- whitefir,redfirandother Kings vere fires and increases the treestomakeframinglum- Canyon likelihood that when fires National ber for houses and other Park do start, they will burn products. But they left the FRESNO CO. Mt. more moderately along the massive sequoias largely Whitney forest floor, allowing the untouched. Sequoia fire-resistant trees to sur- TULARE CO. “Lessthanadozenwere National vive. ever taken,” Rouch said. Visalia Park “Our goal is to make sure “I’m 62, and there’s never thepropertyisfireready,” beenonecutdowninmy 99 Alder Giant Hodder said. “The age-old lifetime. They could have Creek Sequoia belief that no matter what property Camp National gotten fence posts or roof Nelson Monument you throw at giant sequoia, shakes out of them. But I 20 miles they are going to survive, thinkmydaddeepdown we now know that’s not the recognized how beauti- BAY AREA NEWS GROUP case anymore.” fultheywereandhedidn’t Rouch, who works as a want to take them.” quoias. Known as the Red building contractor, said Acousinofthecoastred- Hill property, that 160-acre fivegenerationsofhisfam- wood, which is the world’s forest is about 8 miles south ilyhaveahistoryonthe tallest tree, giant sequoias oftheAlderCreekproperty. Alder Creek property. It is arethelargestlivingtreeby Theleagueplanstotransfer sellingitnowbecause,like volume, a prehistoric spe- both parcels to the U.S. For- MAXFORSTER—SAVETHEREDWOODSLEAGUE many families, each gener- cies that lives up to 3,000 est Service over the next de- The redwoods league plans to transfer the Alder Creek property to the U.S. Forest Service. ation has more heirs, which years. Giant sequoias exist cade, so that they can be in- makes for complicated es- todayonlyin73grovesfrom cluded in the Giant Sequoia farmers, loggers, miners in the winter, the property time, scientists plan to draw tate planning and succes- the Tahoe National Forest National Monument, a part andotherstoraisemoney ishometomountainlions, up public access plans.
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