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...severe decline of its only industry, the U.S. does not have an "Endangered Ecosystem Act." So, to save the last scraps of ancient, old-growth forest in the Northwest, environmentalists used the endangered status of a rare, shy bird that few Americans had heard of and fewer had seen. Timber jobs, however, are being lost less to owl huggers than to automation in the mills. And the timber industry, despite its bull-roar patriotism, senselessly bypasses U.S. mills and mill workers and exports round, unprocessed logs from private forests to Japan...
...BOTTOM LINE: A sensitive, fascinating look at an Oregon logging town and an endangered stand of big timber nearby...
...populations of wildlife; huge, filtering sponges for clear water; great, green lungs breathing out oxygen. Less than ! 10% of the Northwest's old growth is still uncut, and much of this is in patches too small to be ecologically self-sustaining. In 15 years or so, enough second-growth timber will have reached marketable size to allow some logging towns to limp along. But to bridge the years till then, virtually all the old growth not in national parks would have...
Just as important, of the 10 options, that one produced the second highest amount of timber -- about 1.2 billion bd. ft. -- and preserved the second highest number of timber jobs -- a projected 119,500 in the region. That compares with 125,400 jobs in 1992 and 145,000 in 1990. No one disputes that some timber-dependent communities could be hard hit, but FEMAT economist Brian Greber forecast that the job losses would have little effect on the regional economy and negligible impact on the American consumer...
...satisfied when President Clinton approved a plan to reduce logging by nearly two-thirds on federal lands -- and put habitats of the spotted owl off limits -- while providing more than $1 billion to retrain loggers and help tide over their communities. The timber industry attacked the compromise, saying it would devastate struggling businesses. And environmentalists complained it would permit cutting across large areas...