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...Rock! Take her to the zoo. I hear Harvard students like the zoo! The Franklin Park Zoo has free admission every Saturday morning, so get off your lazy, hung-over ass and go. 10 a.m. to 12 p.m., 1 Franklin Park Rd., (Forest Hills T-stop). 541-5466. FREE...
...other life. "Look at the bark of a redwood, and you see moss," she says. "If you peer beneath the bits and pieces of the moss, you'll see toads, small insects, a whole host of life that prospers in that miniature environment. A lumberman will look at a forest and see so many board feet of lumber. I see a living city...
...women's cross-country team was impressive as well, finishing seventh out of 21 teams on the 3.3-mile course. Harvard's 193 points were 17 behind sixth-place Army and 160 behind the winning score of 33 turned in by Wake Forest...
...before Hurwitz bought it in a hostile takeover in 1985. But since then, on the evidence of a passionate new book by activist Doug Thron, a photographer and lecturer, and reporter Joan Dunning, accelerated logging has devastated the land and the streams that flow through it. From the Redwood Forest (Chelsea Green; $24.95) relates a brutal progression. Pacific Lumber, under Maxxam and Hurwitz, started widespread clear-cutting, a practice that leaves no tree standing and works against natural regrowth. Then Pacific Lumber began cutting through the winter months, and on dangerously steep slopes, giving the impacted ground and the silted...
Maybe. In any case, for environmentalists, "tree museum" is a phrase uttered with a shrug. The 3,500 acres of Headwaters don't really amount to a forest. Large redwood forests create their own microclimates. They are rainmakers. And the other 4,000 acres paid for by the Deal, though they have some big trees, are too fragmented to be an effective wildlife habitat for murrelets, Pacific giant salamanders and the spotted owls that loggers love to hate. In particular, they offer little protection for coho salmon, listed as threatened in the state. Salmon need cool, shaded, clear streams...