Word: timbers
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Once upon a time the forests were the land. Covering the planet like an elegant drape, they nourished and protected most terrestrial life. Now the fabric is in tatters--slashed by timber interests, agriculture, suburban sprawl and plain human carelessness. In this second installment of our Heroes for the Planet series, we tell the stories of those working to preserve the great swatches of green that still survive...
Bonnie Phillips has been called an eco-nazi. Twice, logging trucks in the Mount Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest northeast of Seattle have run her off the road. She shrugs. Washington and Oregon are where the big wave of U.S. logging ran out of room, and the timber wars there--between loggers and environmentalists over uncut remnants of ancient Douglas fir and hemlock forests--are not beanbag fights...
...will have spent a full year perched in the branches of a Northern California redwood dubbed Luna. Butterfly's sit-in, a protest against logging by the Pacific Lumber Co., was reported in our May 11, 1998, issue. Last month the California Department of Forestry suspended Pacific Lumber's timber operating license for repeated violations of the state's forest-practice rules. But since the citation does not prevent Pacific Lumber from hiring outside contractors, Butterfly believes Luna and surrounding trees are still at risk, and she has no plans to come down...
...given moment, one U.S. agency or another is passing out money or tax breaks--to subsidize activities ranging from shipbuilding to coal research, from the sale of U.S.-made weapons overseas to peanut farming. Washington helps buy crop insurance for tobacco, builds roads into national forests for the timber industry, sells minerals on public lands at bargain-basement rates and offers cut-rate electricity for businesses like casinos. The Feds help shippers that use inland waterways and bail out American banks with loans gone bad in foreign countries. It's the U.S. government's cafeteria of corporate welfare...
...contrast to traditionally "suitable" subjects for opera, like classical mythology, pastoral romance and gothic drama, Ethan Frome cuts a different figure. Edith Wharton's book contains very little dialogue, and when the characters speak, they talk about timber and tobacco pouches, not their passionate and undying love...