Word: timbers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Thousands of 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...
...Washington, violations of federal law in U.S. parks and forests have tripled, exceeding the increase in the number of visitors (101 % for parks 45% for forests; during the same period. The biggest jump has been in assaults, up 400%. Vandalism is up 220%. In the past decade, timber thefts have soared by 700%. The GAO, as financial overseer of federal properties, warns that the rising crime rate may be undermining the very usefulness of many wilderness areas as retreats for recreation...
Forming a necklace across a quarter of the North American continent, the lakes are an important artery for commerce, allowing ships to ferry such products of the American heartland as grain, steel and timber to countries around the world. They also are a major sport fishery for such species as lake trout, salmon and muskellunge and an aquatic playground for vacationers. Environmentalists used to fear that some of the lakes were dead or dying, but the era of mindless dumping has finally ended, and the water's purity seems to be improving from year to year...
Carter suddenly interrupted himself and pointed across the study to a large table, a lazy susan 5 ft. in diameter. He had designed and built the table, he said proudly, of longleaf pine, virgin timber cut 150 years ago for the home of Rosalynn's great-grandfather. Woodworking has become a Carter obsession. When he wants relief from his writing, he said, he moves to his nearby woodshop, a converted garage where he spends long periods alone chiseling out bowls and building benches and chairs, all his own designs. During the summer, he recalled, he often worked for hours...
...piece of coveted currency. Scrooge brings corruption to Utopia, just as, in another story, he almost brings industrial pollution to "the smokeless northern wilds." The miser skips out of Duckburg to escape the smog his own heavy industries have created, but the first glimpse of placid lakes and tall timber sets him to thinking about natural gas and paper mills...