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Manhattanites in plaid flannel shirts and crepe-soled leather boots are hiking down Fifth Avenue. Students in goose-down vests and baggy sweatpants are trekking through Harvard Square. Dudes in lumber jackets are hanging out in Beverly Hills. Few of these folks have a clue how to swing a fly rod or an ax. But they do know that outdoor gear designed for the backwoods has come in from the cold for wear everywhere...
...shop more than some rive gauche atelier; wire and pliers and corrugated cartons filled with the flotsam of a lifetime lay about in splendid I-know-just-where-it-is disarray. There, and in the house near Tours, France, that he acquired in 1953, the sculptor would lumber about, creating a stage set for Martha Graham, fashioning coffee cups for his kitchen, filling a commission for the Brussels World's Fair or New York's International Airport...
...Brazilian families for a 4,650-sq.-mi. swatch of rain forest in Brazil's remote Amazon region. He then set in motion a bold plan for developing the tract, which is almost the size of the state of Connecticut, to help meet the future world shortages of food, lumber, and wood pulp for papermaking that he expects. Although the crisis has not appeared?at least not yet?Ludwig has quietly and steadily continued to develop what may be the largest private landholding in the Western Hemisphere. Ludwig himself remains inaccessible to interviewers, not to mention photographers. Nonetheless, TIME...
...Time Wasted. The jungle crushers were not Ludwig's only costly miscalculation. In place of the native forest he planned to plant broad tracts of Gmelina, a fast-growing Asian tree that takes a mere ten years to reach the age when it can be cut for lumber and pulp. In contrast, American cottonwood, which is similar to Gmelina in quality and yield, requires at least 30 years to reach maturity. But again the Amazon proved more complex than Ludwig's experts imagined. His property contained at least two distinct types of soil, one unsuitable for Gmelina. Now about...
...forest work has yet to produce a penny of earnings for Ludwig. The first lumber income will not appear on Jari's books any earlier than late 1979, after a $275 million wood-pulp mill, now being constructed on two huge barges in Japan, has been floated up the Jari River and set down on 3,900 wooden piles. By that time, Ludwig's first quarter-million-acre forest will be fully planted, and sections of it will be ready for clearcutting and reforestation. A second forest of the same size has already been mapped...