Jim Eddie remembered as man of integrity

Jim Eddie remembered as man of integrity

A heated environmental controversy over protecting Spotted Owl habitat in dwindling old growth forests was raging on the North Coast when the late Mendocino County Supervisor Jim Eddie suggested a sleep over in a family cabin on remote Foster Mountain. “Let’s go see, and hear, for ourselves,” suggested Eddie to then county administrator Mike Scannell, H. Peter Klein, the legal adviser to the Board of Supervisors, and myself, a journalist. We met…