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...service's original charter. The Organic Act of 1897 specifically permits logging in national forests-but only of "dead, matured or large growth" trees that have been individually marked for cutting. In 1973 the Izaak Walton League sued to halt clear-cutting in West Virginia's Monongahela National Forest. Since clear-cutting means the chopping down of every single tree in a given area, including young ones, the court decided against the Forest Service...
...Every modern timber company clear-cuts where possible. The practice confines the harvest to one area and makes reseeding easier; thus clear-cutting can cost a lumber company about 50% less than cutting only selected trees. The industry thus was shocked when a higher court last August upheld the Monongahela decision. Then in December a federal judge in Anchorage cited the same decision and voided Ketchikan Pulp Co.'s 50-year contract to take 8.2 billion board feet of timber out of Alaska's Tongass National Forest. The ruling cast grave doubts on the legality of clear-cutting...
Timber men are looking to Congress for relief. If the Monongahela decision is applied nationally, they say, the results would surely include: 1) a 10% drop in production of softwood, 2) the layoff of 130,000 workers, 3) shortages of everything from hardwood railroad ties to toilet paper, and 4) average increases of $2,400 in the cost of wood for a single-family home-enough to hurt the home-building industry, which is finally pulling out of its recession. In addition, the industry and the Forest Service argue that clear-cutting makes good conservation sense. It is little different...
...lynching it--bring together a good mixture of humor and sorrow. Somehow this play is made for the down-and-outers of the raw, physical side of life, because aside from the black woman and Fran (Valerie Kiuelson), an alcoholic singer on her way to an appointment with the Monongahela River, the play doesn't do too well. The poet (John Sviolka) and the old lady (Ellen Brenner) seem worried about problem--sex and death--that the one-act play just can't fully explore. The bus driver (Leo Pierre Roy) is indistinguishable from his old crate; he's just...
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