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- <title>
- Apr. 12, 1993: Politics Trumps Ecology
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1993
- Apr. 12, 1993 The Info Highway
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- THE WEEK, Page 16
- NATION
- Politics Trumps Ecology
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- <body>
- <p>To protect his budget, Clinton retreats on land use, then talks
- trees
- </p>
- <p> "What kind of started out as a love affair quite frankly now
- is feeling more like a date rape," said Jay Hair of the National
- Wildlife Federation. The environmental honeymoon ended Tuesday
- when Clinton accommodated several Western Senators key to the
- passage of his budget package; he deleted provisions raising the
- minimal rates farmers and miners pay to use federal lands.
- Environmentalists see the discounts as a guarantee of
- despoilment and Clinton's act as political cowardice. They were
- still nervous days later when he chaired a Portland, Oregon,
- "forest conference" on logging and the spotted owl, topics
- viewed by some as mutually exclusive. At the impassioned
- gathering, which featured concerned conservationists and
- unemployed lumberjacks, Administration aides chatted of
- legislation that would protect the owl under the Endangered
- Species Act but also allow some logging to resume. That might
- not delight Hair and his colleagues, but it would be an
- improvement on the week's beginning.
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- </body>
- </article>
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