Word: lumbering
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...William Hensler, chief executive, Wickes Lumber...
When Dorothy Stimson Bullitt of Seattle started King Broadcasting in 1946, she bankrolled the venture with her family's lumber fortune. Now the radio-and-TV empire is worth as much as $650 million, and her daughters want to put the wealth back where it came from: the environment. Harriett Stimson Bullitt, 65, and Priscilla Bullitt Collins, 69, said last week they will place the family- owned company up for sale to raise money to protect the Northwest's natural beauty. Their empire includes six television stations, six radio stations and 13 cable-TV systems...
...Green is favored by 46% of voters and opposed by 38%. But public opinion could change after the media campaigns go into full swing. In what critics charge is an attempt to mislead the electorate, Big Green's enemies have given their alternative proposals environmentally conscious-sounding names. The lumber industry's plan, for example, is officially titled the Global Warming and Clear-Cutting Reduction, Wildlife Protection and Reforestation...
...understand what is at stake in human terms, it helps to visit a community that depends on timber for its existence. Take Oregon's Douglas County, which, like the fir, is named for the Scottish botanist David Douglas. Oregon produces more lumber than any other state, and Douglas County boasts that it is the timber capital of the world. It stretches from the Cascades in the east to the Pacific Ocean on the west. There one can tune in to Timber Radio KTBR, feel the roads tremble beneath logging trucks and watch children use Lego sets to haul sticks...
...treated paper used for wrapping food. McDonald's recycles such containers from 500 of its 8,200 U.S. stores and expects to include 1,500 more outlets by the end of the year. After the material is broken down into plastic pebbles, it can be reconstituted into artificial lumber, trash cans and other plastic products. Says Shelby Yastrow, McDonald's senior vice president for environmental affairs: "We used to use paper only. We could do it again. It's not that we can't. It's just that we see no reason to change...