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...Europe during the 1970s and introduced in the company's seven U.S. stores as they opened, it works like this: for $20 -- a $10 deposit and a $10 rental fee -- and a signed lease agreement, a customer can walk out with a fresh 6-to-10-ft. Douglas fir from Pennsylvania. Last year the program was a resounding success: 20,000 trees were leased. IKEA expects to rent 30,000 this year. As a bonus this year, customers at most stores will get a coupon for a fir sapling they can pick up for planting in the spring. Once...
...state's 32.5 million acres of forest continue to shrivel. In the north, loggers blame environmentalists for "locking up" ancient forests by suing to ! protect the spotted owl and otherwise halt timbering, but with 90% of the original stands of redwood and Douglas fir already cut, loggers really have only themselves to blame. Says Richard Wilson, newly appointed head of the department of forestry and fire protection: "The loggers put money into buying more old growth rather than regrowing cut forests, and the trees are not there to feed the mills." To maximize short-term profits, many companies...
...understand that it is not your job to provide free publicity for any group on campus, and we know that it is your right to decide on all the news that is indeed fir to print. Perhaps we are simply advising you to keep a reporter's eye out-an unbiased, clear eye-for gatherings and events on campus which seek to create engaging and socially conscious dialogue. Such dialogue is the first step toward bringing Harvard's diverse community closer to mutual awareness and understanding, and is more newsworthy than you might think. Nicholas Weinstock, '91-'92 Kendal Black...
...habitat atop Mt. Graham is unique. Due to the altitude, the climate of northern habitats is reproduced and allows spruce and fir trees, as well as squirrels, to live on the high peaks...
...controversy offers the U.S. an opportunity to reassess the cost of past profligacy and salvage what remains of a treasured legacy of wildlife and ancient forest. Neither the owl nor the timbermen are served by further governmental inaction or sham solutions. What is gained by waiting until the last fir topples, the owl slips closer to extinction, or the mills finally retool or shut down because there are no more old-growth trees available? The lesson of the owl is not that environmental and economic concerns are incompatible, but that the longer society lacks the political courage...