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Then there are the Lynchian touches of off-kilter characters and sideshow weirdness. A woman with an eyepatch has an obsession with drapes. Visitors to a bank vault find a stuffed deer head lying on the table. "It fell down," notes a bank officer blandly. The boyish FBI agent (Kyle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: Like Nothing On Earth | 4/9/1990 | See Source »

Mule deer, mountain goats, bald eagles and three-toed woodpeckers are naturally at home among the stately firs, hemlocks, cedars and redwoods in the "old growth" forests of the Pacific Northwest. So are goshawks, flying squirrels and red tree voles. But amid this Noah's ark of creatures, none is...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Conservation: The Spotted Owl Prevails | 5/15/1989 | See Source »

Want to see the big trees of Washington and Oregon, the great Douglas firs and red cedars? Stay in your car. Keep to the main roads. Avoid high, distant views. In the national forests here, the policy of the U.S. Forest Service has been to leave buffer zones of uncut...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Washington: Lighthawk Counts the Clear-Cuts | 8/29/1988 | See Source »

Sceded firs, the due breezed through the five rounds without losing a set.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Boss Nets ITCA Title | 11/13/1984 | See Source »

Indeed, the most severe damage has occurred at high altitudes to such trees as the red spruce and Fraser and balsam firs. The summits of Camels Hump and Mount Mitchell are enshrouded for as much as a quarter of the year in clouds, which are loaded with acidic chemicals and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Puzzling Holes in the Forest | 3/19/1984 | See Source »

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