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...budget has some "fat and flab." Williams is, however, solidly in the President's camp when it comes to the economy, believing that Reagan's budget-cutting policies are crucial to aiding the state's ailing farmers and ranchers and reviving the severely depressed mining and timber industries...
...this lucrative practice. In any case, by liberalizing the rules governing the so-called "H-2" seasonal workers program, S. 2222 actually increases some employers' incentive to hire foreigners. This is especially true in the case of Canadian lumberjacks who cross the border to work in Maine's timber industries...
...effect, the ranchers want protection against themselves. One of the reasons that they are so dependent on public grazing lands is that private ranges have been grossly overgrazed. Environmentalists cite this as proof of their contention that commercial interests are often concerned only with profits. The timber industry has been another offender: it wants to buy national forests, in part because private lands have been overcut. Indeed, environmentalists note, the whole purpose of creating the national forest system was to prevent loggers from stripping the woods bare. "Two-thirds of the timber in this country comes from private land...
Thousands of nerve-shaken, overcivilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home; that wildness is a necessity; and that mountain parks and reservations are useful not only as fountains of timber and irrigating rivers, but as fountains of life...
...Washington, violations of federal law in U.S. parks and forests have tripled, exceeding the increase in the number of visitors (101 % for parks 45% for forests; during the same period. The biggest jump has been in assaults, up 400%. Vandalism is up 220%. In the past decade, timber thefts have soared by 700%. The GAO, as financial overseer of federal properties, warns that the rising crime rate may be undermining the very usefulness of many wilderness areas as retreats for recreation...