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...distinctive yap-yap-yap call and drumming of the large (19 in.) ivory-billed woodpecker have not been heard in significant numbers in the U.S. since the late 1930s, when all but a few of the birds were wiped out by loggers who cut down rotten, grub-filled swamp timber on which the woodpeckers fed. Now an official of the National Audubon Society named Robert Manns claims that he has heard one woodpecker's cries in the desolate Santee Swamp, near Columbia, S.C. The South Carolina Public Service Authority has heard Manns. The authority, which controls Santee Swamp timbering...
...peach trees on stripped land and its experiments with terracing, successful reclamation is extremely difficult on the steep slopes. Indeed, residents have few kind words for the company. "They've destroyed the mountains," says Paul Ashley, a leading local opponent of surface mining. "They've destroyed the timber. They've destroyed the streams, and their coal trucks have destroyed our roads...
...problem for the Japanese is that they are latecomers in foreign investment, at a time when nations are more aware than ever of the value of their resources. They are also sensitive to the danger of arousing local resentment, as has been the case in the U.S. Exports of timber in log form from the Pacific Northwest and Alaska have been restricted by Congress, and American steelmen complain that huge coal purchases by Japan are driving up the price of fuel and tying up rail cars. Some top U.S. businessmen, worried about the steady inroads of Japanese finished goods into...
...Ivory Coast maintains an annual economic growth rate of 11%, the highest in Black Africa. Farm production has increased 8% in each of the past four years, making Houphouet's bustling republic the world's third largest producer of coffee and Africa's largest exporter of timber. Industrial investment is rising by 20% a year. Firms of the caliber of Renault, Esso and Union Carbide are pouring into the country to take advantage of liberal tax holidays and virtually unlimited repatriation of profits. Per capita income is expected to reach $300 in 1971, which is steep...
...model two weeks ago. Another version is being developed at Dearborn, Mich. Built as a passenger auto, taxi or van, the car will be versatile enough to double as a power source to run pumps or saws, and might even have a body made of wood in countries where timber is plentiful...