Scenic stretch of Lost Coast redwoods to be spared the ax
Associated PressLOS ANGELES — The rugged Lost Coast is about to become less forbidding. “It’s a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.” The property sits at the southern end of the largely undeveloped Lost Coast, an unruly landscape untamed by highways and surrounded by timberlands off-limits to the public. “You’d be hard pressed to find 5 miles of coastline for sale without going to a third world country,” said Aric Starck, executive chairman of Soper and a member of the family that owns it. “The risk the league takes stepping in and buying property is the risk public agency collaborators can’t take.” Michael Evenson, vice president of the Lost Coast League, which advocates for protecting water and wildlife in the area, said the purchase would further help link areas where diverse species can migrate to cooler areas as the climate heats up. “If there are only islands of timber company land, which are younger and hotter and more prone to fire, they don’t create these wildlife corridors,” Evenson said.
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