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...sequestered behind an unmarked door on the 14th floor of the U.S. Bancorp Tower in Portland, Oregon, working 14-hour days, seven days a week, amid a welter of maps, coffee cups and stale pizza. Their mission, direct from the President: explore every conceivable option for preserving the Northwest's ancient forests and its wildlife, while saving whatever can be saved of the once proud and productive timber industry...
...neither side in the great forest debate was pleased. A shocked logging industry claimed that the plan would wipe out 85,000 jobs and devastate timber-dependent towns. "The program is dead on arrival," fumed mill owner John Hampton, chairman of the Northwest Forest Resource Council. And while protesting loggers in the Northwest tossed empty caskets on a flaming pyre and sent a funeral wreath to the White House, House Speaker Tom Foley of Washington State was smoldering...
...fewer than 10,000, not quite the apocalyptic vision of the timber companies. But neither the $1.2 billion for worker retraining and community investment nor Clinton's proposed removal of a federal subsidy on log exports -- a step intended to encourage the processing of more logs in the Northwest and the creation of more sawmill jobs -- placated the industry's fury. The plan contained unsettling news for environmentalists as well. An additional 1.9 million acres -- 22% of the remaining old growth outside of wilderness areas and parks -- will be vulnerable to the chain saw. Even more disturbing to conservationists were...
When Clinton and his environmentalist sidekick, Al Gore, took office, they were already well aware that America's ecology was in crisis. From the spotted owls and salmon in the Northwest to woodpeckers and salamanders in the Southeast, many species were on the brink of extinction, and the implications were ominous. Says Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt, architect of the Administration's natural-resource policy: "This really isn't about just preserving strange species with incomprehensible names. In every single case, that species is the warning light about the decline in productivity of an ecosystem." In the past, the debate...
This October the Administration will launch the $179 million National Biological Survey, in which an estimated 950 biologists will, for the first time, conduct a comprehensive inventory of the nation's plants and animals. The experience in the Northwest has taught policy planners to focus not on individual species but on entire ecosystems. And a determination to avoid the protracted court battles that deadlocked the owls-loggers dispute has spurred the Administration to bring together industries, environmental groups and local governments. An accord to protect the Southern California breeding grounds of the endangered gnatcatcher was reached in March by local...