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...Page has been a cutter of trees, as was his father before him. He may have cleared as much of the ancient Northwest forest as any man. This day he is clear-cutting a three-acre patch of old growth. The area is designated as a possible spotted-owl habitat, but Page has never seen one of the birds. He stands among rhododendron, sword ferns and buckbrush, his body testimony to the perils of his work. The pitch of his chain saw screaming at 13,000 r.p.m. has left him hard of hearing, an upended log cost him part...
...ages. With an excruciating groan, all 190 ft. of trunk and green spire crash to earth. When the cloud of detritus and needles settles, the ancient forest of the Pacific Northwest has retreated one more step. Tree by tree, acre by acre, it falls, and with it vanishes the habitat of innumerable creatures. None among these creatures is more vulnerable than the northern spotted owl, a bird so docile it will descend from the safety of its lofty bough to take a mouse from the hand...
...says this in his 77th-floor office in the world's tallest building, Chicago's Sears Tower, where he is a partner in the 300-awyer firm of Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal. This well-appointed, bustling termitarium does not seem the natural habitat of a writer, but Turow blends in easily. He carries a suitably stuffed and scuffed briefcase; he wears dark suits and serious, lace-up lawyer shoes. (Occasionally some modest stripes on his white shirts will betray a whiff of bohemian raffishness.) His accent in no way distinguishes his speech from that heard in the hallways or elevators...
There, and near national parks, nuclear power plants, dumps and even freshly fertilized lawns, Americans with nothing in common but an urge to protect their habitat have formed groups with names like Wyoming's Pollution Posse or acronyms such as SAVE, RESCUE and PANIC. The proliferation of environmental vigilantes took off in the mid-1980s at an astonishing rate. In 1984, 250 names were on the list of community groups regularly in contact with the National Toxics Campaign, a Boston-based organization that offers technical assistance to homegrown environmentalists. That list now has 1,200 names. The Citizens Clearinghouse...
...recommendation should heavily influence a decision in June by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service whether to formally declare the owl an endangered species. The designation would make it a federal crime to disturb the bird's habitat -- the woodlands that have succumbed to chain saws at the rate of 55,000 acres a year. Only about one-tenth of the original forests in the continental U.S. remain undisturbed...