COURTLY TREES.

The article focuses on the efforts of a U.S. based organization named Sierra Club working for environmental protection and awareness. It reports that the members of the Tehipite and Kern-Kaweah Chapters of the Sierra Club have been tireless in defending 328,000 acre Giant Sequoia National Monument. The Club and other groups sued the Forest Service, charging that the federation's management plan allows extensive logging in previously protected old-growth habitat in the name of wildfire prevention. According to Carla Cloer, chair of the Club's Sequoia Task Force and a Tulare County resident who has championed sequoia preservation for 25 years, this plan specifically targets trees big enough to sell, undermining the whole purpose of the monument.