The murder that ended a young Bay Area editor’s crusade to save the redwoods
- Posted on November 25, 2025
- By The Mercury News
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The murder that ended a young Bay Area editor’s crusade to save the redwoods
Ralph Sidney Smith, the popular young editor of the Redwood City Times and Gazette, wanted to protect the trees in the Santa Cruz mountains from rampant logging. Then he wrote something a reader di…
