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...five district rangers at Ochoco National Forest in Oregon spend as much ! time hacking through red tape as they do overseeing the 1 million acres of timber. They have to juggle 53 separate budgets, including one for fence construction and another for fence maintenance, divided into 577 management codes and 1,769 accounting lines. Each ranger spends about 30 workdays a year just tracking the spending in the various accounts...
...tropical rain forest, trying to decide whether to explore the ruined Maya temple in the distance or climb into the forest canopy overhead, where you might see some monkeys. Suddenly there's a yellow-brown jaguar sitting on the branch above you, flicking his tail from side to side, his yellow eyes fixed on yours. Maybe climbing a tree isn't such a good idea after all. You don't think jaguars eat people, but rather than find out, you head off across the forest floor, turning this way and that, until you manage to get yourself hopelessly lost...
Russian President Boris Yeltsin, visiting Poland's Katyn Forest, paid tribute to the more than 4,000 Polish officers massacred there by Soviet secret police in 1940. Moscow owned up to the atrocity only...
...freights make up all but a percent of railroading today, both in dollars and distance. Commodities such as grain, forest products and coal are still the underpinning of the rails, but railways are nibbling more into consumer products such as Nikes and Chevrolets. Rails transport two-thirds of the new cars from factories to dealers and piggyback 6.5 million truck trailers a year...
...SAVE AN OWL, EDUCATE A LOGGER. But, as David Seideman points out in this thoughtful portrait of an Oregon logging town struggling with the severe decline of its only industry, the U.S. does not have an "Endangered Ecosystem Act." So, to save the last scraps of ancient, old-growth forest in the Northwest, environmentalists used the endangered status of a rare, shy bird that few Americans had heard of and fewer had seen. Timber jobs, however, are being lost less to owl huggers than to automation in the mills. And the timber industry, despite its bull-roar patriotism, senselessly bypasses...