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...excesses of the more extreme environmental groups. "The Democrats came to be identified with a top-down, centralized approach to open-space issues," says Dan Kemmis of the Center for the Rocky Mountain West. "There was the impression that they were just flat opposed to timber harvesting or oil and gas extraction. So you had the oil and timber workers--the party's working-class populist base--fleeing to the Republicans...
...Republican Party in the Rockies has wasted its mandate in much the same manner as the congressional Republicans have in Washington--by catering to conservative religious and anti-immigration radicals, and by getting a little too cozy with the oil, gas and timber interests. "Issues like gay marriage and abortion are not on the cutting edge out here," says Kevin DeMenna, a Republican consultant in Arizona. "Building infrastructure, figuring out how to manage growth--those are cutting-edge issues. And Democrats like Janet Napolitano have just been a lot more pragmatic than the Republicans...
...excesses of the more extreme environmental groups. "The Democrats came to be identified with a top-down, centralized approach to open-space issues," says Dan Kemmis of the Center for the Rocky Mountain West. "There was the impression that they were just flat opposed to timber harvesting or oil and gas extraction. So you had the oil and timber workers--the party's working-class populist base--fleeing to the Republicans...
...million from HMC, which has owned the forest estate since December 2003. The government land, initially sold to a group of investors in 1996 for $1.3 billion, was purchased by Harvard for roughly half that amount seven years later. The 1997 Asian financial crisis had put a dent in timber prices, contributing to the investors’ financial woes. According to the initial purchase agreement, Harvard owns cutting rights in the forest, but the government retains ownership of the land, which is expected to eventually be ceded to Maori Indian tribes. The timber is grown on a managed basis with...
...Mississippi attorney general said they could do so without actually amending the constitution, based on his creative reading of a 1998 federal court decision, but the American Civil Liberties Union disagreed. On Oct. 9, it filed a lawsuit in Hinds County, Mississippi, challenging the 11 additions, including shoplifting and timber larceny, as improperly adopted...