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...timber industry took a blow last week when the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service finally added the northern spotted owl to the federal list of threatened species. Protecting the bird could mean preserving an additional 3 million acres of the old-growth forest it inhabits, which loggers say will threaten 28,000 jobs over the next decade...
...existing timber contracts will not be affected, which means thousands of acres of forest will fall. Then, it may take up to a year before the Federal Government completes its recovery plan for the owl, which leaves ample time for political maneuvering. If the Administration yields to industry pressures, the listing of the owl could amount to little more than paying lip service to the Endangered Species...
...logging town of Creswell in western Oregon, Kerr never worked with schoolmates in the mills during summers. Instead, soon after dropping out of college, he joined ONRC in the effort to silence chain saws. In 1981 the young activist filed the first administrative appeal in the Northwest against a Forest Service timber sale. By 1988 he was masterminding 220 separate appeals in a single month, creating a legal logjam. The tactic proved so costly to industry that a House committee summoned Kerr to Washington for a special hearing, at which he was attacked by Oregon Representative Bob Smith, among others...
...airwaves and in print, his brass-knuckles commentary pummels adversaries. "Asking the Oregon congressional delegation in 1990 to deal rationally with the end of ancient-forest cutting is like asking the Mississippi delegation in 1960 to deal rationally with the end of segregation," he says. He is not a humorless crusader though. Accused by loggers of looking like a spotted owl, Kerr retorted, "That really ruffles my feathers...
With thousands of jobs and whole communities at stake, the timber industry asks how the U.S. can afford to save the northern spotted owl and the forest it inhabits. Environmentalists, fearful the rich legacy of old growth will vanish, wonder how we can afford...