Word: logger
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...being preservationists," he would argue. "We need to become stewards of the land again." In Lankard's view, not only the trees and streams were endangered; so were the native cultures that depended on them. But he was taunted on the street and cursed at sea. An Indian logger pushed him against a wall in a Cordova bar and threatened him with a pool cue. He was voted off the Eyak Corp. board and sued twice...
...Rose Leonard, a blond pixie and "hunter-in-training" who accompanies her father, a logger, when he hunts for food in northern Minnesota, reports that "my favorite part is taking time to wait and see what you're hunting for. Sometimes you have to wait a long time. You have to be quiet. You have to be patient." This from an eight-year...
...just put on your ugliest pair of pants and go crazy, that's all," says Fred Wagner, 47, a logger...
DIED. RICHARD JAECKEL, 70, movie tough guy; of cancer; in Woodland Hills, Calif. A real-life Marine during World War II, Jaeckel took on the Japanese in the Sands of Iwo Jima. He was nominated for an Oscar in 1971 for his portrayal of a logger in Sometimes a Great Notion...
Trees, jobs, and profits--these were fighting words across the country last week as industry, environmental and political groups fought over the future of huge tracts of forest land that lie before the logger's axe. Fights are inevitable when the economic interests of the present collide with the desire to preserve ecosystems for the future. But one of the surprising lessons of the bruising battles over the environment in the past few years is that green sentiment is again a powerful political force. That's why Alaska Senator Frank Murkowski failed to ram through legislation that would have facilitated...