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...hemlock. The shelter of these giants is vital for wildlife, but the trees are also the prize sought by loggers--a single 200-ft. Sitka spruce may yield 10,000 board feet of timber so fine it can be used to make pianos and guitars. Lesser trees fuel pulp mills that mean hundreds of jobs. Thus the debate over the rights to this temperate paradise has been anything but temperate...
...last week's congressional battle the issue was the fate of a pulp mill owned by the Ketchikan Pulp Co., a division of Louisiana-Pacific Corp. that employs 600. It's a high-cost operation that relied on below-market-cost timber from the Tongass to make dissolving pulp, a cellulose product that shows up in everything from rayon to ice cream. Tongass timber was cheap because in 1954 the Federal Government gave KPC a 50-year contract guaranteeing the mill rights to vast amounts of Alaskan timber at fire-sale prices. In 1990 Congress tried to redress this giveaway...
While the Senator blustered, Louisiana-Pacific was getting ready to toss the mill overboard. Why? As a financial proposition, logging in remote, southeast Alaska is problematic because of the high cost of Alaskan labor and the expense of building logging roads. Now, with pulp prices falling, the company is facing increasing competition from mills with cheap labor and fast-growing trees...
...professor of Literature and Arts C-22: "European Culture in the Latin Middle Ages" wowed shoppers with slides of the Starbucks coffee logo, a video clip from "Pulp Fiction," and an audio clip from a Weird Al Yankovich spoof of Coolio's "Gangsta's Paradise...
What with the spread of the World Wide Web and the increasingly cluttered electronic sight-and soundscape, the act of reading and turning wood-pulp pages may strike some as hopelessly passe, the informational equivalent of the fondue party. Two of the fall's more interesting books argue, perhaps unsurprisingly but also quite persuasively, against this view; they are about books and the wealth of contemplative pleasures they afford...