Word: timbered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Interior Department announced its decision to drop wilderness protection for the 805,000-plus acres less than a week after a weary Congress had adjourned for the holidays. The timber, mining and petroleum industries applauded. Conservationists and some Congressmen called the timing contemptible. The announcement, snapped Ohio Democrat John Seiberling, chairman of the House Subcommittee on Public Lands and National Parks, was "a deliberate attempt to evade...
...industrial base. By next June General Motors and Ford will have closed four out of five automobile assembly plants in the span of three years. The once booming housing industry is expected to finish the year with only 60,000 housing starts, down from 251,000 in 1977. The timber industry has already laid off 3,223 of its 21,000 workers, and the state expects to lose a total of 10,000 construction jobs in 1983. Even the much touted high-tech industries are feeling the pinch. The electronic-components field had back-to-back growth rates...
...been estimated that merely maintaining current wood fuel consumption levels in developing countries would require planting at least 125 million acres of new forest. And that figure does not include timber needed for industrial purposes. Angola, Nigeria, Zimbabwe and several other nations have already begun ambitious reforestation programs, by 1985. Nigeria plans to have doubled the amount of forest acres it had in 1980. In Zambia, new agricultural techniques have resulted in fantastic growth rates of 10 to 15 feet a year...
Howling over Wolves. The stately timber wolf across the U.S. It is now all but except in a few untrampled regionslike the north of Minnesota. Some 1,200 wolves roam freely in the north woods roam freely in the area, as much to the chargin of farmers, who argue that the canines are a threat to livestock. Says Delmer Schroeder of Embarrass, Minn., who has lost three calves, as well as three dogs, in the past five years: "They're coming right into the yards. Before long one of them is going to attack our children...
...Department of the interior placed the timber wolf on ts endangered species list. But un der pressure from Minnesota authorities, the department downgraded the wolfs status to a threatened species, allowing eradication of so-called problem wolves, like the pair that strolled into a mining company lunchroom in the town of Babbitt last year...