Word: timber
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...warmer ocean winds, deer browse among ancient groves of Sitka spruce, yellow cedar and 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...
...conservationists, who watch in horror as the global timber machine chews up the world's wilderness, the Tongass had become a test of whether even the richest nation on earth can muster the will to control the forces of deforestation. Logging supporters, and that would include Alaska's Republican Senator Murkowski, seethe over any attempts to restrict harvesting of what they view as a renewable resource...
...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...
...Murkowski shifted his strategy. As Congress tried to adjourn, he vowed to hold up an omnibus parks bill that would, among many other provisions, protect Sterling Forest in the Northeast and provide funding for San Francisco's Presidio, a new national park, unless the Administration agreed to supply cheap timber for KPC's sawmills. He failed, settling for an agreement that would provide timber to the mills at market prices for a two-year transition period--a fine deal for a Republican Party that celebrates the free market. Will logging end? Probably not, but the expectation is that tourists...
CALIFORNIA RANSOMING REDWOODS FROM A TIMBER TYCOON...