Word: timbers
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Fearful of the possible impact on the economy -- and profits -- a coalition of business interests is waging an all-out effort to defeat both proposals. Agriculture and logging companies argue that the two initiatives would lead to higher taxes and cost an estimated 75,000 jobs in the timber industry alone. Big Green "could have deleterious impacts on California's ability to compete," says Don Schrack, a spokesman for chemical and other business interests fighting the initiative. "It's an all or nothing initiative that sets up unreasonable standards...
...good news from Washington, the northern spotted owl is still out on a limb. Last week, only four days after the bird was declared a threatened species, the Bush Administration presented its plan to save the owl, preserve the ancient forest it inhabits in the Pacific Northwest and protect timber-industry jobs all at the same time. In fact, both environmentalists and loggers say, the plan does none of the above...
...plan was an attempt to placate loggers, who feared the loss of 28,000 jobs over the next decade. But loggers think Government estimates of 1,000 jobs lost are too low. At the same time, environmentalists accused Bush of caving in to the timber industry. "It's a throwback to the Reagan-era environmental politics," said George Frampton, head of the Wilderness Society. "It's 100% politics, 0% science." He may have a point. The Administration wants to amend the Endangered Species Act, expanding the role of the "God Squad" -- a body of mostly political appointees who can carve...
...timber industry took a blow last week when the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service finally added the northern spotted owl to the federal list of threatened species. Protecting the bird could mean preserving an additional 3 million acres of the old-growth forest it inhabits, which loggers say will threaten 28,000 jobs over the next decade...
...existing timber contracts will not be affected, which means thousands of acres of forest will fall. Then, it may take up to a year before the Federal Government completes its recovery plan for the owl, which leaves ample time for political maneuvering. If the Administration yields to industry pressures, the listing of the owl could amount to little more than paying lip service to the Endangered Species...