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<text id=92TT1178>
<title>
May 25, 1992: One for the Loggers
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<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
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<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.
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</body></article>
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