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BORN: Feb. 21, 1950, Muncie EDUCATION: U. of Notre Dame, B.A., 1972 FAMILY: Divorced; two children RELIGION: Protestant MILITARY: None OCCUPATION: Gas-company public-affairs director; lumber-company sales executive POLITICAL CAREER: Indiana House, 1987-91 ADDRESS: P.O. Box 1997, Muncie...
Oregon's larger towns--including Eugene, Corvallis and Portland--are enclaves of high-tech industry, university students and environmentalists. Loggers in the Cascade Mountains, millworkers in towns like Roseburg ("Timber Capital of the Nation") and eastern Oregon farmers and ranchers, however, are more conservative, fueling the ongoing "lumber wars" and keeping the state's delegation to the House divided. In the Senate, two Republicans have held sway for nearly 30 years, but the party's dominance may be coming to an abrupt end: earlier this year, the disgraced Bob Packwood was replaced by a Democrat, and now Mark Hatfield...
...Charles Hurwitz, a Houston-based junk-bond wizard who plays the corporate-villain role well. Charlie's sin? He owns the trees, and he'll cut them if he wants to--and does he want to. In 1986 his company, MAXXAM (1995 sales: $2.57 billion), bought Pacific Lumber, the redwoods' owner. Hurwitz visited PL's Scotia, California, mill, and told workers he believed in the golden rule: "He who has the gold, rules." Then he drained $55 million from PL's $93 million pension fund, and cranked up the timber cut to pay off his debt. A redwood...
...Feinstein's office. Greens have tied up PL's logging in federal court, so Hurwitz would not sit with them. A marathon bargaining session produced a highly complicated agreement that promised to turn over $380 million in cash and land (value and location subject to haggling) to Pacific Lumber. If Hurwitz is satisfied, he passes title to Headwaters, the 425-acre Elk Head grove and a logged-over moonscape between, totaling 7,500 acres. If not, PL's fallers start their chainsaws...
...hands of private timber interests. This is the largest concentration of industry ownership in the country. Just 15 corporate landlords own 9.6 million acres, primarily in the North Woods, the great dark forest blanketing Maine's upper reaches. The same industry produced $5.5 billion worth of paper and lumber products last year, as well as 26,000 jobs for this hard-pressed economy. Such numbers have persuaded generations of legislators that what is good for timber is good for the Pine Tree State...