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...pilot Lew Nash, a volunteer for the environmental flying service Lighthawk, point out fragments of what was an enormous woodland. There is one intact 3,000-acre forest called Headwaters -- the largest uncut stand anywhere still in private hands -- and smaller clusters surviving around Owl Creek, Allen Creek and Shaw Creek. All are listed for cutting. "They want to turn all that into lawn furniture and hot-tub decking," Thron yells over the Cessna's intercom. A much larger area of nearly 40,000 acres is scarred and scraped by bulldozers, its salmon-spawning streams choked with silt. Some...
...concern over spotted-owl habitat as "a hoax" and thinks research will show that the murrelet's old-growth needs are exaggerated. But he is proud of an industry award for a model project, done with the state, for rehabilitating erosion damage caused by the firm's logging at Shaw Creek...
...pointed to the current Supreme Court racialgerrymandering case [Shaw vs. Reno] in NorthCarolina as defensible, but not the best option toprotect voting rights...
...weight lifting as criminal empowerment. "What's the difference," he asks, "between allowing them to get big muscles or letting them do aerobics so they can snatch purses and run faster?" The inmates themselves chuckle at the notion that biceps are a crook's best friends. Says prisoner Philip Shaw, 31, who resorts to 1,000 push-ups a day when he's not allowed in the gym: "You don't go into a bank and flex your muscles and say, 'Give me your money...
...only Voysey and Donnelly could bring themselves to move beyond the wry witticisms, the characteristic one-liners and the political thunderings of Shaw more than, they could conspire to transform My Astonishing Self into something more profound than a parroting of Shaw...