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In the remote towns of rural northwest California, Chinese immigrants toiled in redwood logging camps, laundries and restaurants.

The industries that once defined the place, logging and fishing, have either collapsed or are struggling.

It established lasting protection for specified wilderness areas within national forests by prohibiting road construction and logging which can destroy or disrupt habitats, increase erosion and worsen sediment pollution in drinking water, among other outcomes.

"The monkeys' home was being destroyed by logging so their numbers were going down fast," he says.

In the Sierra Nevada, private lands used for logging are more likely to experience high-severity fire that devastates forest ecosystems compared to public lands like National Forests.