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...Knowledge and timber shouldn't be much used till they are seasoned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany Roll Over Beethoven | 11/9/1992 | See Source »

...Four timber wolves joined more than 100 students in a Harvard Hall classroom last night for a lecture by representatives of Wolf Visions, an environmental education group which tries to expose students to the endangered animals...

Author: By David P. Bardeen, CONTRIBUTING REPORTER | Title: Timber Wolves Sighted in Harvard Hall | 11/5/1992 | See Source »

Bush and Quayle continue to use intimidation tactics to present voters with what they claim is a stark choice between jobs and the environment. Bush has said that a Clinton presidency would mean "no timber workers, only a bunch of owls" and "no farmers, only a great, big, wet hole out there somewhere if you listen...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Balance in Power | 10/30/1992 | See Source »

...lord's castle too that peasants and their flocks sought refuge from wolf packs and barbarian invaders. In 999, however, castles, like most other buildings in Europe, were made of timber, far from the granite bastions that litter today's imagined Middle Ages. The peasants, meanwhile, were relegated to their simple huts, where everyone -- including the animals -- slept around the hearth. Straw was scattered on the floors to collect scraps as well as human and animal waste. Housecleaning consisted of sweeping out the straw...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Life in 999: A Grim Struggle | 10/15/1992 | See Source »

Though that message was obviously meant to appeal to Western voters, Bush may have miscalculated its effect. While he was applauded by the region's timber workers, many other Westerners realize that the issue of preserving the remaining fragments of old-growth forest is more complex than owls vs. lumberjacks. George Atiyeh, a former timberman and fourth-generation Oregonian, left the business after watching what clear-cuts have done to the Oregon landscape. "Either my eyes were lying, or I was kidding myself about logging being sustainable," he says. From the air, Oregon's national forests look far worse than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Green Factor | 10/12/1992 | See Source »

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