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...truths" of the plains are as old as the crumbling diaries of the first explorers. Those early wanderers lumped the plains into something labeled the "great American desert." In 1931 Texas historian Walter Prescott Webb wrote, "East of the Mississippi, civilization stood on three legs -- land, water and timber; west of the Mississippi, not one but two of these legs were withdrawn -- water and timber -- and civilization was left on one leg -- land. It is small wonder that it toppled over in temporary failure." The Poppers simply confirmed Webb...
...reform and reaction, openness and xenophobia that is seething throughout the U.S.S.R. The city, with its magnificent harbor, could be the commercial gateway to Siberia and the Soviet Far East, which constitute the largest expanse of untapped natural resources in the world. The Maritime Province's fishing and timber industries already earn enough hard currency from exports to have donated Japanese-made sports cars to the region's police, who need the fancy wheels to catch equally well-equipped smugglers and black marketeers...
Fearful of the possible impact on the economy -- and profits -- a coalition of business interests is waging an all-out effort to defeat both proposals. Agriculture and logging companies argue that the two initiatives would lead to higher taxes and cost an estimated 75,000 jobs in the timber industry alone. Big Green "could have deleterious impacts on California's ability to compete," says Don Schrack, a spokesman for chemical and other business interests fighting the initiative. "It's an all or nothing initiative that sets up unreasonable standards...
...Brown by its critics, the proposal would outlaw the transport of food in vehicles also used to carry hazardous substances and set up a $25 million research program to develop alternatives to pesticides. Big Green supporters charge that CAREFUL simply restates existing pesticide laws. At the same time, the timber industry has united behind the New Forestry Initiative, which it says would ban clear- cutting only in old-growth forests while reducing the practice 50% in all others. Conservationists complain that it would still allow wholesale razing as long as one tree an acre was left standing. They call...
...plan was an attempt to placate loggers, who feared the loss of 28,000 jobs over the next decade. But loggers think Government estimates of 1,000 jobs lost are too low. At the same time, environmentalists accused Bush of caving in to the timber industry. "It's a throwback to the Reagan-era environmental politics," said George Frampton, head of the Wilderness Society. "It's 100% politics, 0% science." He may have a point. The Administration wants to amend the Endangered Species Act, expanding the role of the "God Squad" -- a body of mostly political appointees who can carve...