Tree Ring Circus
1986 Houston businessman Charles Hurwitz buys a lumber company in California. 1989 The feds investigate Hurwitz for his role in the failure of a Texas savings and loan. 1990 Environmentalists organize Redwood Summer to protest Hurwitz’s logging practices. 1995 The feds sue Hurwitz for more than $1 billion in an effort to get control of his redwoods. 2005 A federal judge dismisses the suit and awards Hurwitz $72 million in damages. Your tax dollars at work.
