Word: timbers
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...severe decline of its only industry, the U.S. does not have an "Endangered Ecosystem Act." So, to save the last scraps of ancient, old-growth forest in the Northwest, environmentalists used the endangered status of a rare, shy bird that few Americans had heard of and fewer had seen. Timber jobs, however, are being lost less to owl huggers than to automation in the mills. And the timber industry, despite its bull-roar patriotism, senselessly bypasses U.S. mills and mill workers and exports round, unprocessed logs from private forests to Japan...
...BOTTOM LINE: A sensitive, fascinating look at an Oregon logging town and an endangered stand of big timber nearby...
...populations of wildlife; huge, filtering sponges for clear water; great, green lungs breathing out oxygen. Less than ! 10% of the Northwest's old growth is still uncut, and much of this is in patches too small to be ecologically self-sustaining. In 15 years or so, enough second-growth timber will have reached marketable size to allow some logging towns to limp along. But to bridge the years till then, virtually all the old growth not in national parks would have...
...reporter, follows his two feuding guides, and the reader, tagging along, learns, among other things, why loggers tend to hit the bars after a week's work. Though the author is an environmentalist who favors old growth, he can see it is unfair for the government, after pushing big timber cuts for years, to tell these hard-used, self-respecting men abruptly that it's all over...
...Black sings radio-ready country pop that has a splash of introspection. From Britain's Gavin Bryars comes a minimalist milestone. THEATER That spunky orphan is back, but in Annie Warbucks, her appeal is much scaled down. BOOKS Showdown at Opal Creek is a clear, sensitive account of the timber wars in Oregon and the fate of the last old- growth stands...