Word: timbers
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...scientists, it may be the start of a trend toward devastation that could eventually engulf the entire Eastern green range. Their worry is not unfounded. An apparently similar malady has ravaged 34% of West Germany's wooded lands, causing an annual $509 million in damages to timber and related industries. So far, the U.S. decline has been measured mostly in aesthetic and recreational losses. But it is beginning to have an economic cost as well. Sugar Maple Harvester David Marvin, for example, has lost all the maple trees on ten acres of his 700-acre Vermont spread. A reduction...
Solutions seem a long way off. Arboreal experts are only now beginning to assess the severity of the problem. The Forest Service, for example, has just started a study of the condition of yellow pine, the South's prime source of commercial timber. At Oak Ridge, botanists are examining samples of soil for traces of metals such as aluminum and zinc. In May, U.S. forest experts will travel to West Germany to compare notes with European scientists; in turn, German researchers will visit the U.S. in June. Says Fred White, staff forester with the North Carolina division of forest...
...Wealthy Timber Baron Gerald Willis, 44, is running for both the presidency and the vice presidency. So fervent is Willis' admiration for President Andrew Jackson that he combs his hair in an exaggerated pompadour reminiscent of Old Hickory. His Piedmont, Ala., home is a replica of Jackson's Hermitage in Nashville. Boasts Assistant Campaign Manager Jim Yarbrough: "He is the only nationally recognized political unknown...
...biologists see them not as lawless, marauding killers, but as highly intelligent social creatures that are monogamous, dote on their young and howl complex messages. Still, in Minnesota's North Country, Canis lupus remains the Big Bad Wolf. Even after the Department of the Interior placed the Eastern timber wolf on the endangered species list in 1973, poaching continued at the rate of about 250 animals a year. Farmers complained of a wolf explosion and charged that the animals were ravaging cattle and other livestock. Says Wildlife Educator Karlyn Atkinson Berg of Bovey, Minn., who is known...
...Great Plains and the Midwest were hit hardest by the air mass that rolled in from Canada. In Big Timber, Mont., the wind chill factor (a combination of 15-m.p.h. winds and temperatures of 40 below zero) made it feel as if it were -85°. In Minneapolis, the mercury fell to 29° below, the lowest in 82 years. Power failures kept thousands shivering in the dark. Lander, Wyo. (pop. 7,867), was blacked out for twelve hours; owners of wood-burning stoves invited strangers in to share the warmth. Even the Dynasty crowd loosened up under the chill...