Word: timbered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...public domain was for the Government, not the public. The result: 54% of the eleven Western states is still federal land, much of it undeveloped and unproductive. Nearly 100 million acres have never been surveyed. In Interior's forests some 9 billion valuable board feet of wind-thrown timber are moldering away, hindering new growth...
...surveys needed for land development. In Nevada, which is 85% federally owned. says McKay, "the survey was going so slowly it wouldn't have been finished for a thousand years. I've fixed it so the job will be done this century anyway." He has pushed timber cutting to provide a permanent yield (as practiced by big Western operators, like Crown Zellerbach and Weyerhaeuser, whose future lies in future forest growth...
Sewell Avery, now 80, had his eye on the future-and set company policy accordingly. By filling up the treasury until the company's present timber reserves ran out-about 1960-he could then cash in his chips as low-taxed capital gains. Other shareholders not in Avery's 91% income-tax bracket wanted hefty dividends declared along the way. Avery had enough support to sack company men who opposed him, including Treasurer Waldo G. Murphy...
Then the clouds lifted. The slopes of the Col glared white and dusty under the sun. Pedaling furiously as the road twisted above the timber line, Bobet broke away from the pack. Rump high and nose to the handlebars, he zipped down dangerous Alpine switchbacks at better than 40 m.p.h. and sprinted into Briangon ahead of a demoralized Rubier. Briangon and all of France breathed again. With only five laps and five days of racing left, Bobet seemed to be a winner...
...where it has not been practiced in modern times. Southern Greenlanders are raising cattle and sheep as the Viking colonists did a thousand years ago-before their colony was destroyed, probably by increasing cold. Oats can be grown in Iceland and cabbages near Fort George on James Bay. The timber line is steadily creeping northward across the Canadian tundra...