Author Kurtis Alexander
The 55-year-old resident of Camp Meeker, a community of mountain shanties and rustic villas tucked in thick woods south of the Russian River, had expected Pacific Gas and Electric Co. to do tree work in the area. He even welcomed the pruning as a way to keep overgrown vegetation from toppling power lines and possibly starting another destructive fire.
But like a growing number of Northern California homeowners, he wasn’t prepared for just how far the embattled utility company would go to cut back the forest.