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...scientists and tourists; its vast riches beckon others. The taiga, the word used to describe the region's enormous forests, in particular has captured the attention of both foreigners and Russians. Japan, Korea and the U.S. covet the rich forests of southern Siberia. The Russian government sees its timber as a quick source of cash to prop up an economy that continues to flounder. Fearful of an economic collapse that might once again bring to power a hostile, nuclear-armed totalitarian regime, the U.S. is trying to promote the responsible exploitation of the region's resources, in part through...
...encapsulated by John Muir in Our National Parks when he wrote, ''Thousands of tired, 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.'' SHERI A. MCDONIEL Dubuque, Iowa aol: SAMcDoniel
...surprise anyone that the Republicans in Congress have just completed the most successful six months of fund raising in their history, having thrilled their corporate friends with all their talk about melting down government, dismantling the welfare state and rinsing regulations out of everything from cable TV to salvage timber. More striking than the millions they have raised are the tactics they have been using to get them. As though the natural urge of money to follow power were not enough, the G.O.P. leaders have set about stiffening the rules of influence peddling. The goal is not only to keep...
...accompanying letters, Unabomber gave a one-word response to questions about his motive. "The answer is simple: anger." He also chided the FBI for being "surprisingly incompetent" and denied that an April mail bomb, which killed a lobbyist for California's timber industry, had been triggered by the terrorist bombing in Oklahoma City. "We strongly deplore the kind of indiscriminate slaughter that occurred in the Oklahoma City event," read Unabomber's letter to the Times-blithely sidestepping the fact that last week's threat to blow up a passenger plane is perhaps the ultimate indiscrimination...
Showing they might still constitute a force to be reckoned with, the liberals brought Kennedy and O'Connor over to their side for a 6-to-3 ruling last week. In a setback for the timber interests that brought the suit, the court ruled that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service had not exceeded the intent of the Endangered Species Act of 1973 when it forbade modification or destruction of wildlife habitats on private land. With Congress in the process of rewriting the Endangered Species Act, even that could be a short-lived victory...