Victory Bitter Sweet For GO Road Foes

Victory Bitter Sweet For GO Road Foes

The six mile stretch of the Gasquet Orleans Road will not be completed once legislation is signed and the sacred area to Native Americans called the "High Country" will become part of the Six Rivers Recreation Area and off limits to logging and mining.

David Forest

Humboldt State Special Collection

Times Standard

11/03/1990

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Humboldt County Pamphlet Collection
Six Rivers National Forest: Gasquet-Orleans Folder

Marilyn Miles said, "Indians are happy the GO Road has been stopped but wish the battle had been won on the issue of Religious Freedom, not a few lines inserted on a piece of environmental legislation."
"I think people would rather have had it that way" Miles said. "It would have allowed Indian people to know that their religious rights get the same protection that other members of our society do."

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