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...tied to the tracks; there came the choo-choo; there gloated the villain, twirling his mustache. Logging was to begin in three days. Negotiators for the U.S. Department of the Interior were scripted as heroes at a day-long wrangle at the Washington office of California Senator Dianne Feinstein...
...environmentalists took part in the meeting at Feinstein's office. Greens have tied up PL's logging in federal court, so Hurwitz would not sit with them. A marathon bargaining session produced a highly complicated agreement that promised to turn over $380 million in cash and land (value and location subject to haggling) to Pacific Lumber. If Hurwitz is satisfied, he passes title to Headwaters, the 425-acre Elk Head grove and a logged-over moonscape between, totaling 7,500 acres. If not, PL's fallers start their chainsaws...
...Feinstein called the agreement "win-win," which in matters environmental means nobody is happy. Either party can back out of the agreement on two weeks' notice. Like all good negotiators, Hurwitz knows when to ask for more, and the Greens are certain he will. They now refer sarcastically to the preserved tracts as a tree museum...
...Noah R. Feinstein '98, who will represent HAND on the committee, said that while past student concerns had some merit, he wanted to start the new year with a fresh outlook...
...concerns were quite valid, so [HAND co-chair Amanda H. Bigelow '97] and I have given the issue a lot of thought, but we both feel that [HAND] could be a positive contributor," Feinstein said...