Word: timber
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...stalking horse to save the last 10% of old-growth forest in the Northwest; loggers claim that protecting it costs them 32,000 jobs. Last week the rare birds trembled, after the Cabinet-level committee known as the God Squad voted to override the act and allow timber sales on 1,700 acres...
...year existence. While environmentalists go to court to reverse the action, conservation legislation is winding its way through Congress to protect not only the owl also but the salmon, steelhead and other species dependent on the old-growth-forest ecosystems. Lawmakers also hope to help timber communities and retrain lumberjacks, many of whom will lose their jobs anyway when the last, irreplaceable trees fall. (See related story on page...
...when his mind was closed. He was wary of environmentalists and the Endangered Species Act and eager to drill for oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. His pro-business credentials were impeccable: he would fend off any serious challenge to sweetheart deals on public lands for oil, mining, timber and ranching interests. And though he had so little interest in Interior's affairs that he at first declined the job, he could not resist a personal appeal from Bush...
Last week Lujan again revealed his priorities. The so-called God Squad, a Cabinet-level committee of which he is chairman, announced its intention to exempt from the Endangered Species Act timber sales on various federal lands in Oregon -- despite warnings from biologists that the sales pose a threat to the northern spotted owl. It is only the second time in the act's 19-year history that an exemption has been granted. (The previous case involved the whooping crane and a Wyoming dam project...
...quote belongs to Socrates, who lived in a 5th century energy crisis. After cutting down their own forests for fuel, the ancient Greeks were forced to import shipfulls of timber from Thrace and Macedonia...