Word: timbers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Environmentally progressive Oregon seems on the verge of solving one of its biggest coastal-pollution problems. Governor Tom McCall recently restricted the number of logs that could be stored on waters around timber-processing and pulp plants. The new policy is designed to reduce the bark and debris that, as they decompose, consume precious oxygen and thereby choke marine life. Says McCall's environmental chief, L.B. Day: "We think we can start harvesting oysters in Coos Bay in a couple of years...
...ensure that it is not put in the position of endorsing a product, the service reserves the right to pass on each ad. The arrangement enables the service to use commercial ads to spread its prime message-the public must protect U.S. woodlands threatened by fire and commercial timber demands -while allowing companies to leaven their sales pitches with a pinch of altruism...
...Forest. In Targhee, the Forest Service waged a $9,000,000, six-year battle against the pest-and lost. Chemical sprays did kill the beetles, but at an estimated cost of $4 per tree the battle became uneconomical. In a forest that once contained 3 billion board feet of timber, only half now remains; the value of the timberstand has been cut by $30 million...
Bright, blue-eyed Ben Barnes, 34, was the most astonishing casualty. Once marked as presidential timber by Lyndon Baines Johnson, and a "golden boy" protégé of Treasury Secretary John Connally, Barnes nonetheless was hurt by revelations of high-level wheeling and dealing in the state capital. The most sensational was the implication of Governor Smith and former Texas House Speaker Gus Mutscher, among others, in a stock-fraud case (TIME, Feb. 15, 1971). Barnes was not directly involved, but after subsequent investigations exposed flagrant cases of nepotism (one legislator had five relatives on various payrolls) and misuse...
...more ventures than his company can handle alone. He operates a rubber plant and has a lease on 67,000 acres of land-obtained for about a cent an acre-that he plans to use for cattle grazing. He is now negotiating for timber concessions...