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President Bush also has attacked Gore on the jobs-vs.-environment issue. / During a visit to Colville, Washington, last month, he chastised the Senator for advocating protection of the spotted owl, which is endangered because 90% of its old-growth forest habitat has been cut. "It's time to put people ahead of owls," he said, and mockingly challenged Clinton to endorse Gore's book...
While Congress busies itself saving the bald eagle and the spotted owl, Cambridge is struggling to preserve its own particular endangered species: the mom and pop restaurant...
President Bush, quick to focus on such popular resentment while campaigning in the Pacific Northwest, has found it easy to scapegoat the owl for the region's economic woes. Speaking in Colville, Washington on Monday, Bush said "Not far from here is a timber town called Forks. Like Colville, Forks supported a mill, and the mill supported a community. Because of a lack of timber, the mill had to close. Today unemployment at Forks is at 20 percent," Bush said. "It's time to put people ahead of owls," he concluded...
...spotted owl and some of the last untouched wilderness in this country will be destroyed to satisfy the insecurities of the man-in-the-white-house in Washington, D.C. and the man-on-the-street in Forks, Washington. Sure. Cut everything down and unemployment will come in a few years anyway--no trees gives loggers nothing to cut down...
...issue isn't as simple as conservatives would have you believe. There's no need for a stark choice between the 3000 residents of Forks and the 3000 northern spotted owl nesting pairs left in Washington, Oregon and California...