Word: timber
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...TIMBER INDUSTRY OF ALASKA WANTS balance. For too long, preservationists have been allowed to uphold restrictions that protect the wildlife but never consider the people who live, work and relax in the surrounding environment. As a resident of southeast Alaska and an employee of the last remaining pulp mill in the Tongass National Forest, I have seen the devastating effects on people and communities resulting from overwhelming environmental restrictions. When a substantial job loss occurs in an area such as ours, relocating to find employment is extremely difficult, if not impossible. Our congressional leaders are trying to add people...
FROM THE BEGINNING, THE WESTERN states have been creatures of federal subsidy--not only grass but minerals, timber and water as well. That federal oversight has fallen short of the ideal is evident in great carpets of sagebrush choking out the range grass, in clear-cut national forests and in mining ventures that threaten even such a national treasure as Yellowstone National Park. The fragile Western environment is degraded, and the public treasury receives virtually no revenue in return for the degradation. Public interest can be served only by improving the federal stewardship of what belongs to all Americans. ROBERT...
...Federal Election Commission show that many of them are heavily financed by campaign money from oil and gas companies, mining and logging interests, developers and growers. A proposed Senate version of the Endangered Species Act, sponsored by Slade Gorton of Washington, was written with the help of timber lobbyists. According to the Western States Center, a campaign-finance research enterprise, Senator Conrad Burns of Montana got more than a fourth of his campaign funding last year from such sources, an unusually high percentage. The League of Conservation voters gave him a score of zero for his votes in the last...
...Russian north, including Siberia [COVER STORY, Sept. 4]. I welcome your efforts to publicize what is indeed an environmental crisis of international concern in that region. However, your essential question "Can Siberia be saved by capitalism?'' was inadequately answered. You published a photograph of a devastating clear-cutting of timber resulting from a Russian joint venture with Hyundai, yet nowhere is the nature of that tragic deal covered in the article. We need the full story to learn from the mistakes made by Hyundai and others if capitalism is to become part of the solution to Russia's problems. BRUCE...
...will only make a bad situation worse. I suggest that the only kind of capitalism that should be allowed in Siberia is operations to clean up those areas damaged by hazardous dumping, and maybe a squadron of wrecking balls for Norilsk. Vice President Gore should turn his attention from timber raping in Siberia to timber growing in America. DANIEL L. PEARLMAN Alexandria, Virginia...