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...loss of 28,000 jobs over the next decade. But loggers think Government estimates of 1,000 jobs lost are too low. At the same time, environmentalists accused Bush of caving in to the timber industry. "It's a throwback to the Reagan-era environmental politics," said George Frampton, head of the Wilderness Society. "It's 100% politics, 0% science." He may have a point. The Administration wants to amend the Endangered Species Act, expanding the role of the "God Squad" -- a body of mostly political appointees who can carve out exemptions under the act for economic and other considerations...
...edges of many parks. Timber cutting next to Olympic National Park in Washington State has reduced the area's forest from 689,871 acres in 1959 to 106,000 acres today. "Trees in the forest are cut down to the edge of the park," says Wilderness Society President George Frampton. The Reagan Administration has authorized very little money for purchases of park land. In 1978 the budget was $681 million; for 1989 the Administration has requested $17 million...
Development is dangerous, contends Frampton, because the parks are part of ecological systems extending beyond set boundaries. Animals, Frampton suggests, do not follow dotted lines. "We don't object to logging on the edge of the parks just because we love trees," he says. "We object because it changes the natural conditions within the park...
...Henry Ruth and George Frampton, members of Cox's prosecution team, challenged those accounts in their testimony Tuesday...
Between the Knapps and their children is a middle generation of bemused souls. Cynthia Forrest teaches summer school and has the unenviable task of getting Mary and other Peter Frampton fans to pay a little attention to Jane Austen. Cynthia's boyfriend, Peter Spangle, is in Spain dribbling away the last of a small inheritance. He left before reversing the fan in the kitchen window; the hot air blows...