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...state's 32.5 million acres of forest continue to shrivel. In the north, loggers blame environmentalists for "locking up" ancient forests by suing to ! protect the spotted owl and otherwise halt timbering, but with 90% of the original stands of redwood and Douglas fir already cut, loggers really have only themselves to blame. Says Richard Wilson, newly appointed head of the department of forestry and fire protection: "The loggers put money into buying more old growth rather than regrowing cut forests, and the trees are not there to feed the mills." To maximize short-term profits, many companies...
...would have to go into the mines. Two years ago, he logged 35,000 miles following the trail of illicit ivory for a cover story about the endangered elephant. Last year he spent 10 days with loggers in the forests of Oregon to cover the battle over the spotted owl. "If a story is worth doing, it's worth doing thoroughly," he says. "I find that whatever truth there is emerges not in the second or third interview, but well down the line...
...Owl Club, the Fly Club and the Porcellian Club all served alcohol this weekend to candidates for membership at off-campus locations...
Presidents of the Fly Club and the Owl Club did not return telephone calls made by The Crimson yesterday afternoon. A man who answered the phone at the Porcellian Club declined comment, and there was no answer at Sears' home...
According to one sophomore who went on the Owl Club's outing Saturday, only orange and cranberry juice were served at the club-house. But the sophomore, speaking on condition of anonymity, said that alcoholic beverages were later served at a "country home" outside Cambridge, and that he arrived back at Harvard and went to dinner in a house dining hall "totally trashed...