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...array of reserves encompassing key watersheds and old-growth stands, an innovative strategy intended to protect the most ecologically essential areas of the forests and thereby preserve the habitat of spotted owls, salmon and countless other species. The blueprint allows for average annual timber harvests of 1.2 billion bd. ft. -- less than one-third of the mid-'80s peak of 5 billion bd. ft. a year. Administration projections put job losses at fewer than 10,000, not quite the apocalyptic vision of the timber companies. But neither the $1.2 billion for worker retraining and community investment nor Clinton's proposed...
Team members developed 10 options. At the far end of the spectrum was option one, nicknamed "Save-It-All" because it allowed for a minuscule 0.19 billion bd. ft. to be cut, and would have set aside all ancient forests. At the opposite end was option seven, which would have allowed 1.84 billion bd. ft. to be cut annually. Thomas bristles at any suggestion that there was political interference in the deliberations, but he refuses to discuss the substance of periodic conference calls with Katie McGinty, the White House's environmental- policy director. "Politics is not our bag," he says...
Just as important, of the 10 options, that one produced the second highest amount of timber -- about 1.2 billion bd. ft. -- and preserved the second highest number of timber jobs -- a projected 119,500 in the region. That compares with 125,400 jobs in 1992 and 145,000 in 1990. No one disputes that some timber-dependent communities could be hard hit, but FEMAT economist Brian Greber forecast that the job losses would have little effect on the regional economy and negligible impact on the American consumer...
...year? With only one entry, Currierites are constantly bumping into each other. There's nothing better for house unity. And at 5 a.m. on a Sunday morning, there's nothing better than a friendly face to welcome you back home as you take your "walk of shame" past the BD...