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...starts doing card tricks, he creates a mild sense of foreboding. Magician Ricky Jay is a deft dealer, but his sleight of hand tips the hand of Director James Lapine. This will be an evening of chipper invention, but one that will skirt the deeper, darker depths of this forest, where magic turns to mystery and the tumbling appearance of the fairy kingdom's wayward spirits becomes a metaphor for the wayward heart's enigmatic leapings...
...pieces with one long loud blast, making everything you ever saw in a movie or a comicbook or one of your own daydreams fly apart, letting you know what both the heroes and the cowards really heard when death flew at them: WHHHHHHHONNNNNNK!" He describes a hailstorm in a forest: "Instead of whispering or talking, the woods now seemed alive with hokey B-movie jungle drums." At last they find the body, and Lachance speculates about how they must appear to the corpse, if it could see: "Like pallbearers in a horror movie...
Bald Mountain Lookout. Located above the timberline atop a 6,000-ft. peak in eastern Oregon, this five-acre site was once an observation point for rangers trying to spot forest fires. It is too small to interest developers, but its remoteness and breathtaking views will charm fugitives from city life. Land in the area is going for $300 to $500 per acre...
...reasons that they are so dependent on public grazing lands is that private ranges have been grossly overgrazed. Environmentalists cite this as proof of their contention that commercial interests are often concerned only with profits. The timber industry has been another offender: it wants to buy national forests, in part because private lands have been overcut. Indeed, environmentalists note, the whole purpose of creating the national forest system was to prevent loggers from stripping the woods bare. "Two-thirds of the timber in this country comes from private land, and private timber industries can overcut or do whatever they want...
...land doesn't take into account what we've learned about ecology in the last 40 years," says Maitland Sharp, conservation director of the Izaak Walton League. To be sure, there is no way to calculate the dollar value of the view from a mountaintop, the solitude of a forest or the airy freedom provided by a piece of open land near a crowded city. There is no way to put a price on an ecosystem that is destroyed to make way for a shopping center or a high-rise apartment...