Word: timbers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...disapproved of messy, tangled old-growth forests, whose dank, rotting understory and ancient trees it has referred to as "overmature" and "decadent." It has preferred to clear-cut the old growth, and then treat trees as if they were very large soybean plants that could be "harvested" for timber on a rotation basis every 60 or 80 or 100 years in "sustained-yield" areas...
...promised a "Burmese Way to Socialism" -- a strange mix of Buddhism, socialism and isolationism -- but instead allowed a potentially robust economy to drift on a joyless ride down a Burmese road to ruin. Once Asia's premier rice exporter and a country rich in oil, grain, gems and timber, Burma slipped into abject impoverishment, thanks to haphazard central planning, mismanagement and an unbending policy of self-sufficiency. While resources were devoted to a four-decade struggle with tribal guerrilla armies around the country, annual per capita income sank from $670 in 1960 to $190 in 1987, according to the World...
Today his work is enthusiastically supported by the timber companies, and, says Flowers, 59, "I can retire with an easy conscience." His experiment, though, cost him $12,000. That personal sacrifice caught the attention of Ann Medlock and John Graham, a married couple who run a small foundation in Langley (pop. 700), on picturesque Whidbey Island, 20 miles north of Seattle. And last year Flowers, savior of the bears, became a Giraffe...
...Yellowstone National Park is ringed by oil and gas drilling, timber clear- cutting and road building, jeopardizing its wildlife and geothermal geyser system. The Guru Ma religious cult is building a world headquarters for 600 plus disciples on a ranch abutting the park's northern border...
...misguided policy, not guided visitors, constitutes the gravest threat. Owing in part to the oil crisis of the late 1970s, Washington has encouraged strip mining, oil exploration and commercial development on the edges of many parks. Timber cutting next to Olympic National Park in Washington State has reduced the area's forest from 689,871 acres in 1959 to 106,000 acres today. "Trees in the forest are cut down to the edge of the park," says Wilderness Society President George Frampton. The Reagan Administration has authorized very little money for purchases of park land. In 1978 the budget...