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...most passionate voices belong to homeowners like Paul Martin, a businessman whose hundred or so acres lie within the monument's outer boundaries. "The only people who want to shrink the boundaries are timber companies and cattle owners," he says. "If you don't believe they ruin the land, imagine what your street would look like after a cow or a logger with a chainsaw spent some time there. I don't understand why they insist on ruining this tiny speck on the map when they have millions of acres nearby they're allowed to destroy...
Gdynia workmen are cutting steel for a replacement fleet of seven custom-designed carriers for the timber giant Weyerhaeuser, based in Federal Way, Wash. The 78-year-old yard beat out competing bids from Japan and South Korea for the contract, said to be worth some $250 million. Frank Mendizabal, a Weyerhaeuser spokesman, said the company asked U.S. shipyards, which he declined to name, to bid on the contract but received no response. Gdynia's bid offered the "best value" in terms of cost and willingness to collaborate on the new design. "There are not a lot of shipyards...
Grazing fees $14 million Timber receipts $5 million Mining claims $25 million Mineral royalties $1 billion...
Made a national monument in the final year of the Clinton Administration, it includes 53,000 scattered acres, putting at odds property owners, timber companies, ranchers and environmentalists...
When the service proposed banning vehicles from 47,000 more acres--adding to the 784,000 acres already closed off--a political firestorm ensued. Colorado Congress members and their snowmobiling constituents accused the service (an agency usually criticized as being a caddy for timber companies) of putting ferns before humans. The White River Conservation Project criticized the plan as too little too late and called for blocking off 300,000 additional acres. "Red Table is one of the finest undisturbed mixed forest stands in the Rocky Mountains, and making it a wilderness area would protect that," says the project...