Word: timber
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About 120 Harvard students learned yesterday that "the best way to make friends with a wolf is to give them food." A demonstration sponsored by the Phillips Brooks House Environmental Action Committee featured two live wolves, "Shaman" and "Sila," and a film about the fate of timber wolves, which are an endangered species...
According to audience member F. Christian Willauer '92, "Sever 113 will never look the same after seeing timber wolves jump on the piano...
...truths" of the plains are as old as the crumbling diaries of the first explorers. Those early wanderers lumped the plains into something labeled the "great American desert." In 1931 Texas historian Walter Prescott Webb wrote, "East of the Mississippi, civilization stood on three legs -- land, water and timber; west of the Mississippi, not one but two of these legs were withdrawn -- water and timber -- and civilization was left on one leg -- land. It is small wonder that it toppled over in temporary failure." The Poppers simply confirmed Webb...
...reform and reaction, openness and xenophobia that is seething throughout the U.S.S.R. The city, with its magnificent harbor, could be the commercial gateway to Siberia and the Soviet Far East, which constitute the largest expanse of untapped natural resources in the world. The Maritime Province's fishing and timber industries already earn enough hard currency from exports to have donated Japanese-made sports cars to the region's police, who need the fancy wheels to catch equally well-equipped smugglers and black marketeers...
...Brown by its critics, the proposal would outlaw the transport of food in vehicles also used to carry hazardous substances and set up a $25 million research program to develop alternatives to pesticides. Big Green supporters charge that CAREFUL simply restates existing pesticide laws. At the same time, the timber industry has united behind the New Forestry Initiative, which it says would ban clear- cutting only in old-growth forests while reducing the practice 50% in all others. Conservationists complain that it would still allow wholesale razing as long as one tree an acre was left standing. They call...