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Go Figure: Save Forests by Cutting Them Down

By AAN Staff
december 16, 2002  10:08 am
Go Figure: Save Forests by Cutting Them Down
Mark Rey, former timber lobbyist, is "truly feared" by environmentalists in his new job as steward of the nation's dwindling wilderness, Andy Ryan reports in Seattle Weekly. "He never met a tree he wouldn't cut," Bill Arthur, director of the Sierra Club's Northwest office in Seattle, tells Ryan. "The timber executives ponied up a million dollars for Bush's election campaign, and Mark Rey intends to make sure their investment is richly rewarded." Nevertheless, some Northwestern enviros are talking about making a deal with the devil: sacrificing younger trees to save old growth forest.
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