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- <text id=92TT1178>
- <title>
- May 25, 1992: One for the Loggers
- </title>
- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1992
- May 25, 1992 Waiting For Perot
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- THE WEEK, Page 19
- NATION
- One for the Loggers
- </hdr><body>
- <p>The White House puts the spotted owl on a precarious limb
- </p>
- <p> The Bush administration has made no secret of its antipathy
- toward the Endangered Species Act and its most celebrated case,
- the northern spotted owl. Environmentalists have used the owl as
- a stalking horse to save the last 10% of old-growth forest in
- the Northwest; loggers claim that protecting it costs them
- 32,000 jobs. Last week the rare birds trembled, after the
- Cabinet-level committee known as the God Squad voted to override
- the act and allow timber sales on 1,700 acres.
- </p>
- <p> Such an exemption has been granted only once before in the
- act's 19-year existence. While environmentalists go to court to
- reverse the action, conservation legislation is winding its way
- through Congress to protect not only the owl also but the
- salmon, steelhead and other species dependent on the
- old-growth-forest ecosystems. Lawmakers also hope to help timber
- communities and retrain lumberjacks, many of whom will lose
- their jobs anyway when the last, irreplaceable trees fall.
- </p>
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- </body></article>
- </text>
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