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...Falls mill is largely the achievement of Robert Filberg, vice president of the Canadian Western Lumber Co. Throughout his 45 years in the British Columbia timber trade, Filberg always was bothered by the disheartening waste involved in harvesting pulpwood. In 1940, he decided to do something about it. Working with the province's forestry department, he experimented with new methods of logging waste wood and new-type machines to mill it. When the process was perfected, Filberg's company closed a deal with the U.S.-owned Crown Zellerbach Corp. to build the Elk Falls mill. Its success...
Very few people have high regard for the timber wolf, an animal popularly supposed to eat up unwary citizens who get lost in the snow. This attitude saddens Lee Smits, a Detroit news commentator and probably the best friend the timber wolf has. Smits, who blames the wolf's lowly social position on "the Red Riding Hood legend," feels that more people ought to be concerned by the fact that the timber wolf of the eastern U.S. is well on the way to extinction...
...prevent the disappearance of what he terms "an interesting carnivore," Smits has taken the lead in urging the creation of a timber wolf sanctuary on Isle Royale, a rugged, heavily wooded tract in Lake Superior, 48 miles from the northernmost Michigan mainland. Last week, in an attempt to put the Smits plan into execution, the national park service brought to the island four young timber wolves. Three of them had been raised in a zoo, and the fourth, a tawny grey male named Jimmy, was reared by Lee Smits and his wife Peggy. (The Smitses, who turned Jimmy over...
...Riding Hood learned, you can never tell about a wolf. Just as their guardians were about to give up, Jimmy, another male and a female took bravely to the timber. The fourth, an effete female prophetically named Lady, refused to accompany them. Smits explained Lady's behavior: "Wolves are much more individualistic than dogs, and females are much shyer than males...
There are other indignities forced upon them by victorious Russia: Petsamo (Pechenga) in the north and timber-rich Finnish Karelia on the east, both annexed by Russia in 1944. The Finns prefer to think and talk of the land they have left, vast (130,000 sq. mi.), rugged and beautiful, stretching high into the Arctic, where the sun shines day & night in summertime. It is a land of 60,000 gleaming lakes set in dark forests that sprawl over 80,000 square miles, a land of granite-strewn farms stingy in yield, of busy, sober towns and endless stretches...