Logging damages Maidu village but tribes weren't told of work

Friday, May 3, 2013  

A logging project has damaged a 4,000-year-old Maidu village and tribes weren't told about the work until after it started.

Pacific Gas and Electric Co. started logging last fall under a permit issued by the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection. The Maidu Summit, which represents tribes and other groups, wasn't given advance notice of the project, The Sacramento Bee reports.

"Somehow the wires got crossed and the notice didn't go out in time," Dan McCall, a PG&E forester, told the paper.

Work was halted after the village and a trail were compromised. PG&E says it will come up with a protection plan for the 368-acre logging site.

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