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A quiet man with an off-center smile, he shares his thoughts only when pressed. He is rugged but not callous. His peers consider him an artist in the way he brings down mammoth firs to fall side by side, within inches of one another. With a 20-lb. saw...
The life cycle of the Pacific Northwest's primeval woodlands is measured not in decades but in centuries. No amount of saplings and science can make up for years of wanton harvesting, or replace a thousand-year-old fir. Only time can do that -- and time may be short for...
Though the timber industry has zealously replanted over the past two decades, the hallmark of old growth, biodiversity, has been lost. Gone are the broken-topped dead trees or "snags" favored by owl, osprey and pileated woodpecker. Gone the multilayered canopies and rich understory, the scattering of hemlock, incense cedar...
For instance, according to Jill H. Casid, a firs-year graduate student, Harvard deans have said they are willing to support the center, but have balked at taking a strong stand on the proposal because they don't want to step on Wilson's toes.
Loggers argue that court injunctions have already deprived them of much of their prime lumber -- and their livelihood. Protecting the owl, they warn, would silence the mills once and for all, and drive at least 9,000 jobs into extinction. Environmentalists believe that may be a price worth paying for...